City Hall station
10/30/04
IRT City Hall station, Heins & LaFarge, 1904.
City Hall station has been closed to passengers since 1945 and is definitely the world's most beautiful abandoned subway station, if not its most beautiful subway station of any kind. I hadn't seen the station in about ten years, so it was great to get back there on the occasion of its centennial. More at Bluejake and Amy Langfield.
If you didn't make it to this rare public viewing, you can see the station any time by staying on a downtown 6 train after Brooklyn Bridge station. But it's not quite the same.
Thanks for bearing with me during this site's downtime. I think everything is back to normal now.
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Rigor mortis
10/26/04
Half-mile-long graf wall and abandoned train station, The Bronx
Two new projects from Julia Solis: American Ruins, and Riddle of the Buried Stream (a New York scavenger hunt).
City seeks federal injunction against Critical Mass bike ride.
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Climb
10/21/04
Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Sixth Avenue, Manhattan
Smith Street, Brooklyn
Park Slope Armory, Brooklyn
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Street
10/19/04
Navy Yard, Brooklyn
East Harlem
The Bronx
Lower East Side
The Times thinks I use a cell phone camera.
French photolog: JR files (via Mike Golby).
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Cambridge
10/16/04
Cambridge, MA
Boston
The Times looks at the wall around the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
I'll be speaking briefly on Wednesday evening in a virtual town meeting at the Apple Store in Soho, by Paul Shambroom's kind invitation.
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Vote or Die
10/12/04
Under the BQE at Navy Street. Are you registered?
Simsbury, CT
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2190
10/09/04
Queens
The Bronx
Bridgeport
Providence
Boston
NYT: City sued over RNC arrests; DA drops charges against 227 protesters
Don't miss Tim Davis' "My Life in Politics," an exhibition of photographs revealing odd juxtapositions in politics, at the Bohen Foundation, 415 West 13th, through November 5th. (Tuesday-Friday, noon-6pm.)
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Not just a statistic
10/06/04
Morristown, NJ
Somewhere in New Jersey
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Williamsburg Bridge
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
This weekend is the second annual Open House New York. Lots of places that are normally closed will welcome visitors -- but, alas, not the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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SF miscellany 2
10/05/04
San Francisco
New York Times: Police illegally fingerprinted me, others.
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South of Market 2
10/03/04
South of Market, San Francisco
The Times talks to the Wooster folks and deconstructs the Candy Factory.
More NYPD harassment of photographers.
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South of Market 1
10/01/04
South of Market, San Francisco