James and Karla Murray show off photos from new project

November 16, 2009 @ 11:08 pm

James and Karla Murray unveiled this neat panorama of 66th Street station along the 1 Line in an upcoming project with Prestel Publishing and the MTA. From this image alone, it looks like I’ll be very much into the project and the book (assuming that there is a book lined up). I can’t wait to see more photos!

Underground Signs will create a custom NYC Subway sign for you

November 12, 2009 @ 2:06 am

If you ever wanted the station sign from a local Subway station in NYC or wanted a custom NYC Subway sign that said something unique, then Underground Signs is a good place to get either one. Underground Signs will recreate just about any current MTA Subway sign with letters or make a custom sign for you with the same look for a premium fee. Each sign is authentic metal construction and painted black with white letters in the exact same typeface used in the NYC Subway system.

The signs start at $99 and go up depending on how big and complicated your sign gets.

New York City’s subway lines now available in Google Maps

November 6, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

It’s been available as a layer on Google Maps for BlackBerry devices for a while, but it looks like Google formally announced the MTA NYC Subway transit layer for the standard version of Google Maps. Rather than simply showing the station stops like Google Maps has been doing, the new layer actually shows you how each line travels from point to point.

Looks like there will soon be no use for this digital version of the official MTA NYC Subway map.

Subway train cake by Dahlia’s Cakes

October 29, 2009 @ 12:16 am


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Wow, I believe this is the first time I’ve ever seen a cake fashioned to look like a New York City MTA Subway car (an F train, too!). It’s not perfect, but it is kind of neat I think, so kudos to Dahlia’s Cakes for putting this together.


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Improv Everywhere sets up photo studio inside Subway car

September 22, 2009 @ 6:56 pm

For its latest stunt, Improv Everywhere set up a photo studio inside a Subway car and convinced people that the MTA commissioned them to take photos of all passengers for use in a year book to be published at the end of the year.

Some folks were happy to oblige and some of the results of the makeshift studio can be seen in the portraits below. Nice!

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Guy on Subway asks to see a performer’s boob

August 25, 2009 @ 12:26 am

Corey linked this video from Ignantwitted that gives us all a clear cut example of what not to ask a Subway performer. I love how cool she was about it. Most girls I know would have kicked this guy in the nuts.