Brandon Sugiyama recreated the beautifu tiled lettering in the NYC Subway and made it available as a very affordable font purchase. He painstakingly recreated the type by hand and made the font with Glyphs. Download the monospaced tiled and untiled font for just $10.
How one typeface took over movie posters
Anatomy of Typefaces
Documentary showing the last days of hot metal typesetting at The New York Times
Man, watching this documentary by Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss really makes me appreciate the older days of newspaper printing. So much manual work involved for even the tiniest alteration and line type change.
The Inkwell Font Family from Hoefler & Co.
This is a very pretty typeface. It looks incredibly versatile with a ton of different styles. And it's so non-threatening that Fast Co. called it a Comic Sans for the 21st Century.