Confused in Harlem or the Bronx...

After the two initial days of my newly found subway image obsession went without any "What are you doing here?" and "You can't do that!" yesterday made up for that... 2 police officers and one MTA employee engaged with me in some interesting conversations: I guess the rules about photography aren't as well known and clear cut as one would hope for... One of the officers told me that it was OK to continue as I was taking tourist style pictures... Uff! What a blow! My fragile artist's ego wanted to rebel but focusing on the long term goal helped me to bite my tongue...
In the end I was allowed to continue although eyed with suspicion, but they must have concluded that I was harmless after all...



I think this should be the uptown side of 135 St. station on the 2 & 3 lines.



Detail in same station. Isn't it strange how much work was put into the decoration?
How much attention to detail? Beautiful, isn't it?



More details of 135 St. station.



Almost pompous looking station decal at same station.



Curved walls have something attractive to me. I see the benefit as in accident avoidance, but they either seem quaint or modernistic to me... A little like stores with warped display windows... Love those too...



As above. Both are exit only. I guess I find uncommonness in common things intriguing...
I guess exit only makes sense in this case as it's on the uptown side of 145 St on the 3 line...
Only one more station to go in that direction...



149 St. - Grand Concourse in the Bronx.



Same as above.



As above. The spot that I was approached by 2 police officers separately just within minutes...



161 St - Yankee Statium: Have to look more closely at that station... So far one of my least favorite ones... This part like though!



This is more to my liking, back in Harlem! I guess I'm old style after all!



145 St decal. Color is kind of funky... Love the style though!



Metrocard vending machines say it all: Cop activity! ;) (Not at this station though!)



Wall at odd angle! I guess I'm easily intrigued... Love the old style clock as well!



Quite a high number of columns. But tiled. I like!



This shows a lot of what I like in this series: A weird sense of abandonment in a public but secluded space...



This shot took me a while to get... Was lucky that there was an out of service train waiting in station... Not so lucky for the people on the train behind this one though!

Surprise!!! More New York subway pictures!!!

I guess I have caught the subway bug now!
I love the idea of whole, vitally important systems hidden away...
Layers under layers beyond sight... Fascinating!
Today I traveled to 145 St., 148 St. (both on the 3 line) & 23 St. - Ely Ave / Court Sq. in Queens...



I have seen this quite a few times by now... The blue seems to be part of the new color scheme used in the newer cars (E line for instance)... Does this mean that the nice 70s look of our 3 trains is slowly going to be replaced by blue seats?



First of 3 different ID signs I discovered at 145 St.



Love this mix of different eras tech/design!



Pretty narrow platform with lots of pillars!



When you spend enough time on the subway you discover stuff that you usually only see in case of emergencies... Escape route decals from the inside of a stopped train.



Don't really know why lonely trash cans fascinate me so...



145 St. station has no uptown access.



Newer style station ID.



Second exit.



I guess the white was applied in the recent restoration and just rotted away already in the earlier example...



Love this! Creepy!



This station seems more matter of fact...



But still has exposed steel columns!



Yeah! Who knew that you can take the subway to Jamaica?



I just wonder how the subway art work is actually selected... I'm mainly unimpressed...
I like the little people on 14 St. (A, C & E lines) though...



Wonderful style mix of bump guards!



More strange art work...



On my way back home... 59 St. - Columbus Circle... Quite vivid I have to say!

NYC walk in the 50s and lower 60s...

Unfortunately I'm not talking Fahrenheit here! It turned cold again in the city... After last week's warmer temperatures I had hoped that we had seen the last of this winter, but no!

Cold weather makes me really not want to go out and take pictures... Unless it's for money of course! ;) But I'm talking about personal projects here... Winter seems to make me want to rather curl up and stay in... But today (using that term loosely as in "before sleep") I finally went out again...
I thought about being in New York City and trying to make the most of it... This is a fabulous place... I just have to take more advantage of living here!

























Well, I guess I have cheated a little since I was mainly underground... It got pretty chilly though on my way over from Lexington to Columbus Circle... ;)