The MTA should bring back some of these vintage posts and signs—they’re such a cool throwback to old New York. These lantern-like beacons guard the Fifth Avenue and 59th Street station:
Vintage signage on the New York Life building, on Park Avenue South—important enough to have its own subway entrance. Interborough Rapid Transit is today’s 4, 5, and 6 line.
I hope the MTA does not replace or tidy up this weathered, slightly rusted subway post, in Inwood:
Tags: Central Park subways, Interborough Subway, Inwood, MTA, subway posts, Subway signage, Vintage subway signs
Ephemeral New York 
December 9, 2009 at 5:49 am |
There’s a great vintage subway sign / light as you come up the elevator from the Jay Street Borough Hall stop on the F train.
December 9, 2009 at 10:26 pm |
love the lanterns
December 10, 2009 at 3:21 am |
last time I was in NY was Christmas 04. Took the staten island ferry twice a day as we were staying in S. I.
There was, I swear, a poster on one boat that was from 1963 telling you what to do if an atomic bomb was on the way.
I spoke to an authority, who said I couldnt have it.
Could it have really been in that poster frame for that long an no one noticed?
I still think of that.
I shouldve just taken it.