Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway

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Summary: A few errors
Review: Interesting - The book is copyright 2004 by the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The legal name for the parent agency is Metropolitan TRANSPORTATION Authority. So is this book legal?

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Summary: There is Art Beneath What You See
Review: When I've gotten into the New York Subway, my first thoughts have been of dirt, noise (obnoxious music and squealing wheels), and where's the damn train. When I've looked at the elements that make up the structure I've seen steel beams with twenty-eleven layers of peeling paint. After reading this book, it will, hopefully, not be the same. The carefully selected photographs (showing a lot more cleanliness than uaual) point out the points of design that were incorporated into the original construction.

An official publication of the MTS's New York Transit Museum, this profusely illustrated book makes you look at the New York Subway in a different light. Here there is beauty and elegance sufficient to make you think of the subway as a work of art in its own right. Look carefully, the signs you're looking for to tell you where you want to go may be carefully done in mosaic tile or held up by a delicate iron casting.