“Born in 1904, the New York City subway has traversed multiple design movements from the Beaux Art to the present and in the last three and a half decades has commissioned literally hundreds of ...

Across New York City's subway system, transit maps displaying colored-coded train routes help riders visualize their location and guide them to their destination. But at Manhattan’s 68th Street–Hunter ...

Since the 1980s, the MTA has installed hundreds of site-specific works of art throughout the subway system. These pieces of art have been designed by world-famous artists in order to create a ...

Back in the 1980s, New York's Mass Transit Authority launched the Arts For Transit program. Through this initiative, the MTA selected artists for permanent installations at stations around the city ...

New York's Second Avenue Subway opened on January 1 after almost a century of planning, with new art installations by Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Vik Muniz, and Jean Shin. Sarah Sze, “Blueprint for a ...

When Jean Shin was selected by the MTA to create artwork for the 63rd Street station, which was one of the first to open along the long-awaited Second Avenue Subway in 2017, she found herself inspired ...

New York commuters can use a free app to virtually purge the subway of annoying advertisements. Photo: NO AD If you’ve ever visited the subway platforms in the Big Apple, you know they’re plastered ...