Sentences with phrase «york city subway»

In this pale - gray - and - white living room, furniture from Martha Stewart's signature line sits beneath reproductions of old New York City subway signs.

Founded in 1988 by Mike Markkula, former president of Apple Computers, Echelon's control technology is found in diverse locations ranging from the New York City subway system to the Louvre in France to more than 25 million energy - smart homes in Italy.

To ride the New York City subway system is to be immersed in advertisements for higher education: Learn a skill, get a job, change your life.

Helvetica appears in numerous corporate brand logos (Nestle, Lufthansa and American Apparel, to name a few) and even on New York City subway signs.

The thin memory foam padding on the Move Wireless managed to blunt some of the noise I encountered on the New York City subway, but not all.

The cans have saved me from many a loud talker on the New York City subway and helped me establish an island of calm at my desk during work hours.

The Tribeca Blackout booth (which, ironically, is pure white) is one of the most striking - looking things in the venue: a gleaming, empty recreation of a New York City subway car section, complete with poles and seats.

The New York City subway is bad.

But by using it, you just might be improving the future of public transportation — and the New York City subway can use all of the help it can get.

One thing that can be hard to grasp with the New York City subway is how connected it all is.

Oscar's cartoon advertisements are likely familiar to anyone who rides the New York City subway.

Several disability rights groups recently sued the New York City subway system over its lack of accessibility.

Updated on June 30 to correct a typo in the total number of accessible New York City subway stations.

Part of the thinking here is simply that certain aspects of the storm (lowest barometric pressure for a winter cyclone in the Northeast) and its consequences (worst flooding of the New York City subway system) are «unprecedented,» so what more proof do we need that our fuelish ways have dangerously loaded the climate dice to produce ever more terrible extremes?

The divisions that now comprise the New York City subway system were also private enterprises in the beginning, and I think that turned out pretty well for all of us, though I'm sure if they were only introducing the whole subway concept today Delia Ephron would hate them.

Ian Urbina has an engaging story in The Times today on one such effort, in which the state of Delaware is building a synthetic reef of old New York City subway cars.

With the latter she dove down into the New York City subway on the country's coldest political day.

Also examined is Haring's activity in public spaces, including the anonymous works that first drew him to the attention of the public, figures drawn in chalk on pieces of black paper used to cover old advertisements on the walls of New York City subway stations.

Also around this time she designed two large mosaic murals for the New York City subway system: one is at the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue station in Manhattan and the other at the 23rd Street - Ely Avenue Station in Queens.

In this collaborative show, Bryant presents paintings of Cohen's photographs of the iterations of four advertisements as they appeared throughout the New York City subway system.

Her voice is most notably used to announce the entire New York City subway system and nearly every airport on the planet.

His recent works include «Pacific Ocean Water Colors,» a series of paintings created using the currents of the Pacific Ocean, and «The Voice,» a five - channel audio installation commissioned for the Singapore Biennale 2013, where his poetry was narrated by Carolyn Hopkins, a voice actress whose announcements are used for the entire New York City subway system and most airports worldwide.

Community Garden, Dezsö's mosaic in the New York City subway was recognized as Best American Public Art in 2007 by Americans for the Arts.

By photographing found advertising spaces in the New York City subway where advertisements have been temporarily removed, torn posters, paint, graffiti, and glue applied repeatedly over decades are revealed.

Dezsö's permanent public art has been installed in two New York City subway stations, at the United States Embassy in Bucharest, Romania and at CUNY BMCC Fiterman Hall in Lower Manhattan.

One photographer however has made bacteria his business, documenting the germs that await the commuters of the New York City subway.

The Astor Place stop served by the # 6 train is the closest New York City subway stop to The Cooper Union.

In this striking image from his series «Subtext,» Wyatt Gallery photographed found advertising spaces in the New York City subway where advertisements have been temporarily removed — revealing torn posters, paint, graffiti, and glue applied repeatedly over decades.

His drawings of his wife and lifelong muse, Claire Selley — beginning in the 1950s when they met as students at Cooper Union — often took the form of hybrid collages that incorporated sketches and scraps of wallpaper and advertisements that he found in the New York City subway.

Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico in 1960 and raised in New York City, Lee Quinones is considered the single most influential artist to emerge from the New York City subway art movement.

In 1980, he explored the vitality and distress of the New York City subway.

Miguel, who is recognized for creating works of art over New York City subway maps using Sharpie markers, started using...

He is subject of numerous solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and in 2005 he completed a large, colorful mural in the New York City subway system, at East 53rd Street and Lexington.

It was during this time that Haring began to take the New York art scene by storm, transitioning from a New York City subway artist to a gallery artist.

Music fans flocked to the participating New York City subway stations to collect the various metrocards.

Though I've ridden the New York City subway after happy hour before, I was still a little unsure about how my balance would be on a surfboard.

The rapid transit system is the second busiest, behind only the New York City subway system, and the city also provides transportation via commuter rail and bus.

The New York City subway might be the last place you'd expect to check out a library book, but that could soon change if some students from Miami Ad School have their way.

Kendra's Law — named after Kendra Webdale, a 32 - year - old woman who was pushed to her death in front of a New York City subway train in 1999 by a schizophrenic man who was not taking medication for his condition — allows judges to order certain mentally ill individuals to accept outpatient treatment and monitoring if they wish to remain at large in the community.

Explore the New York City subway system with Pablo and Alicia as they get separated from their class while finding their way to the Empire State Building.

Even in the so - called Comfort mode, it rides like a New York City subway car, shuddering over bumps and clattering from station to station.

Students at Transit Tech High School work on retired New York City subway cars that are permanently parked inside the school.

December 6, 2012 • Most New York City subway stations affected by Superstorm Sandy are up and running again.

A noticeable improvement over Adam Sandler's previous three Netflix originals — in much the same way that a glass of Manischewitz is a noticeable improvement over drinking one of those ominous puddles that forms in the groove of a New York City subway seat — «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» isn't the wittiest or most exciting movie that Noah Baumbach has ever made, but it might just be the most humane.

You're going to need to brace yourself for some groundbreaking news: The New York City subway is dirty.

Personally, I have a hard time imagining wanting to pump on the New York City subway — but then, I was lucky enough to have not only a clean, private place to pump during my workday and the ability to arrange my schedule as needed (many women don't, despite laws to protect nursing mothers at work), but an employer who provided a hospital - grade pump for me to use on site.

Planners also need to quickly come up with solutions to guard underground infrastructure, especially the flood - prone New York City subway and underground utility cables and pipes.

The New York City subway system supplies power to its trains via a third rail charged with about 625 volts of direct electric current (DC).

It's not uncommon in a New York City subway car, an airport terminal or just about any other public space to see a dozen or more people completely consumed by what's happening on the screen of their smartphone, to the exclusion of the world around them.

More than 20 stairwell covers have already been installed in lower Manhattan as part of the New York City subway system's Super Storm Sandy recovery efforts,» said Fortune, «With the RTP, we are capable of controlling the vastness of danger, damage and even inconvenience to the public due to flooding events.»