This charming animation is a love letter to New York City’s subway

Pentagram’s Giorgia Lupi and her team created a romantic tribute to the oft-maligned transit system. When we consider the ...

Incredible secret subway predated NYC’s official subway by decades

On February 26, 1870, the elite of New York stepped into the basement of Devlin’s clothing store in Tribeca and descended ...

Marilyn Monroe's iconic subway grate photo has surprising WWII roots and hidden history

New book "Dear Marilyn" explores how Sam Shaw's 1941 Coney Island photographs inspired the famous Marilyn Monroe subway grate ...
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A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway

Giorgia Lupi and her team at Pentagram have created a data-driven animation for the MTA called A Data Love Letter to the ...

NYC kids keep dying while subway surfing. After 2 more, calls to action rise

Ka’Von Wooden loved trains. The 15-year-old had an encyclopedic knowledge of the subway system and dreamed of becoming a ...

Grand Central Station has been totally taken over by ‘Humans of New York’

For the first time in Grand Central Station’s history, there are no ads, just art.

Marilyn Monroe’s Iconic Subway Grate Image: Photographer Tells The Real Story Behind the 'Shot Seen Round The World'

The man who snapped the photo of Marilyn Monroe’s iconic New York City subway grate image explains how it came to be, and why ...

What is the deadly new trend ‘subway surfing’; the viral challenge that took the lives of two Brooklyn teens and alarms NYC authorities

Two teenage girls died in New York City from subway surfing. This social media trend continues to cause fatalities. Authorities increased patrols and removed many related videos. Subway surfing ...

In Grand Central, a Visual Love Letter to New York

Brandon Stanton, the photographer behind the best-selling book “Humans of New York” and the viral social media project linked ...