"This fascinating, smartly executed volume should intrigue and entertain anyone with affection for New York City's amazingly complex, largely uncelebrated environment" (Publishers Weekly)
Third Avenue station (closed) terracotta
Bushwick Aberdeen mosaic detail, Squire Vickers, chief architect of the system from 1906 to 1942, wanted to celebrate the subway's industrial character.
96th Street IRT terracotta, Heins and LaFarge, architects
137th St station IRT terracotta
More than 250 extraordinary photographs--including both newly commissioned color photographs and period images from the New York Transit Museum archives--chronicle one hundred years of architectural and design history from the New York City subway system, including everything from the interiors of the trains and architectural details of the stations to the development of the token and mosaic signage. 25,000 first printing.
Brooklyn Bridge terracotta, Municipal Building BMT platform
Union Square terracotta eagle, Heins and LaFarge, architects
Retired R-series subway cars
Seahorse detail, Subway entry sign, Graybar Building, Lexington Avenue
A train crossing Jamaica Bay at dusk
Abandoned platform, BMT Line, Brooklyn
More than 250 extraordinary photographs--including both newly commissioned color photographs and period images from the New York Transit Museum archives--chronicle one hundred years of architectural and design history from the New York City subway system, including everything from the interiors of the trains and architectural details of the stations to the development of the token and mosaic signage. 25,000 first printing.