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2. New York City Subway tiles - Wikipedia

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   The tiles used in the Independent Subway System (IND) are very simple and austere, and usually are only of four colors: white, black, and the station-specific band and border colors of the tile. Instead of using the serif and sans-serif fonts of the IRT and BMT, the IND used a blocky geometric font, an altered version of the previous sans-serif ...

3. Guastavino tile - Wikipedia

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   Guastavino tile vaulting in the City Hall station of the New York City Subway Guastavino ceiling tiles on the south arcade of the Manhattan Municipal Building. The Guastavino tile arch system is a version of Catalan vault introduced to the United States in 1885 by Spanish architect and builder Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908). [1]

4. Broadway–Lafayette Street/Bleecker Street station - Wikipedia

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   The tile band was part of a color-coded tile system used throughout the IND. [122] The tile colors were designed to facilitate navigation for travelers going away from Lower Manhattan. Because the next station to the north, West Fourth Street–Washington Square, is an express station, the adjacent stations to the north and south both used ...

5. New York City Subway map - Wikipedia

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   The New York City Subway map is an anomaly among subway maps around the world, in that it shows city streets, parks, and neighborhoods juxtaposed among curved subway lines, whereas other subway maps (like the London Underground map) do not show such aboveground features and show subway lines as straight and at 45- or 90-degree angles. [49]

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7. City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line) - Wikipedia

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   The ceiling surfaces are composed of white tiles, with green and brown tiles along the perimeter of each ceiling vault. [ 6 ] : 6 [ 10 ] : 15 [ 1 ] : 4 The vaults were constructed of thin terracotta tiles bonded with a string mortar, added in successive layers to form a thin structural vault of great strength.