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Music Under New York musicians at the 34th Street–Hudson Yards station on Manhattan's West Side. Music Under New York (MUNY) is a part of the Arts & Design program by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that schedules musical performances in transportation hubs across its rapid transit, ferry, and commuter rail systems.
MTA Arts & Design was created in 1985 when the MTA began to reverse years of decline by rehabilitating and renewing the transit system. [ 2] The commissioning of original artwork was intended to show riders that the system values their comfort and experience within stations. Works use durable materials like ceramic tile and mosaic, bronze ...
Times Square, often referred to as the hum[1] or the Times Square Hum, [2] is a permanent sound art installation created by Max Neuhaus in Times Square in New York City. Originally installed in 1977, it was removed in 1992 and reinstalled in 2002. It is maintained by the Dia Art Foundation, who consider it one of the twelve locations and sites ...
Life Underground. Life Underground (2001) is a permanent public artwork created by American sculptor Tom Otterness for the New York City Subway 's 14th Street/Eighth Avenue station, which serves the A, C, E , and L trains. It was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 's Arts for Transit program for US$200,000, one percent of ...
Quiñones was born at Ponce, Puerto Rico, [1] and raised in the Lower East Side section of Manhattan. Also started drawing at the age of five, and started doing subway graffiti in 1974. By 1976, Lee was creating huge murals of graffiti art across the subway system. As a subway graffiti artist, Lee almost exclusively painted whole cars, all ...
Brooke Slevak. “We take it for granted,” Concetta Bencivenga, New York Transit Museum director, told The Post of the subterranean system, which opened to the public on October 27, 1904. The ...
The Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue/74th Street station is a New York City Subway station complex served by the IRT Flushing Line and the IND Queens Boulevard Line.Located at the triangle of 74th Street, Broadway, and Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens, it is served by the 7, E, and F trains at all times; the R train at all times except late nights; the M train weekdays during the ...
On November 23, 1904, the IRT Lenox Avenue Line opened between 96th Street and 145th Street. 3 trains ran between 145th Street and City Hall, making all stops. [5]On July 1, 1918, the entire IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line was completed. 3 trains were rerouted south of 42nd Street from the IRT Lexington Avenue Line to this new line, making all stops to South Ferry.