subway

I grinned when I saw this and thought of Catherine E. I want to see this book...

I grinned when I saw this and thought of Catherine E. I want to see this book...

The view through the Christopher Street station while we waited for the 1 train.

One of the easiest ways to pass the time at subway stations is the ubiquitous book-in-the-backpack. Shot surreptitiously from the hip.

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an approaching train, and that's actually the desired outcome. 110th Street, tired after our vertical tour of St. John's, preparing to head downtown and back out to Jersey.

Water damage? Too many years of paint? No idea. Entropy knows this station well.

Graffiti is everpresent in the subway system, but this station had more of it than the others I'd seen. There were times that I looked around me and wondered if the station was managing to stay more than a half-step ahead of the chaos of vandalism. It was difficult to repress the sneaking suspicion that I was actually on a movie set of an Abandoned Subway Station.

Graffiti is everpresent in the subway system, but this station had more of it than the others I'd seen.

I found the mechanisms of the subway system utterly fascinating: spare, utilitarian, completely unadorned, and unlike anything in my everyday life.

The New York subway system is old, and some stations are in better shape than others. This is the 86th Street station in the southern part of Brooklyn.