Today we celebrate Wear Red Day in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women campaign, an initiative aimed to eliminate heart disease and stroke in women throughout the world through research and education. Join this woman in Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers” (2017) at Second Avenue-72nd Street (Q) in wearing red today!

#MapMondays - 1968 East Side Access maps Today we launched our story on East Side Access (link in bio) - East Side Access is a megaproject that connects the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to Grand Central Terminal via more than 8 miles of new tunnels and a new eight-track train terminal 150 feet below Grand Central. These maps are from the MTA’s ambitious transit expansion program in 1969 that first called for a #LongIslandRailroad terminal in East Midtown. The proposal included a new East River tunnel at 63rd Street connecting to a terminal on Third Ave and 48th Street that would be constructed with an office tower on top. The ‘69 expansion plan also included a proposal for constructing the #SecondAvenueSubway, which would have provided subway connections to the new LIRR terminal. By the end of the year, construction had started on the 63rd Street Tunnel... (More to come tomorrow!) Visit our website to read about the entire history of East Side Access, get an update the status of construction, and see recent construction photos, and an illustrated description of the concourse and tracks 150 feet below #GrandCentralTerminal. Stay tuned for more on East Side Access all week! Follow @eastsideaccess for daily updates on the project. #MapMonday #EastSideAccess #mtacapitalconstruction #mta #lirr #publictransit #nychistory #urbanism #midtown #grandcentral #haroldinterlocking #sunnysideyards #transithistory #nyctransit #nycsubway #subway (at Grand Central Terminal) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4cVKwHCO1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zodsz5yh7xuo

“The Second Avenue Subway is Here!” - The New Yorker

#closetoclose #cecilybrown #chuckclose #secondavenuesubway #favoriteartists #nyc #2017 (at 86th Street (Second Avenue Subway))

MTA Arts & Design welcomed public transportation professionals from throughout the country with a look at monumental art in the subway system!  Attendees of the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) annual conference were guided through lower Manhattan to learn about the process of creating Ann Hamilton’s CHORUS (2018) at the WTC Cortlandt Street (1) station, the “Sky Reflector Net” by James Carpenter at Fulton Center, and Arts & Design’s award-winning Digital Arts Program. Uptown, another group toured the iconic artworks installed for the Second Avenue Subway (Q) Station to see firsthand the expansive permanent public art installation and its impact.

With National Nurses Day today and National Tourism Day tomorrow we take you to Second Avenue-72nd Street (Q) where both are represented in Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers” (2017). On the New York city subway you can encounter nurses and tourists among the many interesting people!

Q TRAIN #SecondAvenueSubway (at 96th Street (Second Avenue Subway))

Happy National Pizza Day! Celebrate like this NYC kid from Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers” (2017) at Second Avenue – 72nd Street.