This is cool. Grand Central is turning 100 on Friday. You can buy all sorts of neat collectibles at the Transit Museum annex there, like this little Grand Central clock. This one is a steal at $45, considering the real one is worth millions of dollars. #mta #gct #gct100 #pixnyc #pix11news
A quiet reminder of the havoc Sandy wrought on the subways. The No. 1 train now terminates at Rector Street as the MTA works to restore the devastated South Ferry station. #mta #sandy #subway
Subway sticker anachronism: The forbidden boombox
Today’s iPod generation may understand this sticker inside subway cars to mean: No smoking, no littering, no … what?
The third symbol, of course, represents a “Boombox,” a suitcase-sized precursor to the iPod, as ubiquitous in subways and on the streets in the 1970s as Apple’s miniature music player is today.
Text and photos: Jefferson Siegel
Jefferson Siegel is a New York-based photojournalist and a contributor to The Retrologist.
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Clever ad campaign for Ask.com posits questions that speak to a New York audience. This shuttle train was wrapped inside and out with this Gotham-centric campaign. #advertising #subway #ask #trains #mta #history #nyc #trivia (Taken with Instagram)
Dutch treat: Riding The Knickerbocker train on Metro-North
What’s in a name? Well, on Metro-North, certain trains come with lovely names that evoke Hudson Valley lore.
My favorite is probably The Knickerbocker, which I had the good fortune to ride the other day. (Not that there is anything special about it other than the name.)
The Retrologist explored this subject recently, inspired by a ride on the Ichabod Crane. Both Diedrich Knickerbocker and the fictional Ichabod Crane are creations of America’s first true man of letters, Washington Irving, whose beloved home, Sunnyside, and burial grounds, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, can be visited by a quick jaunt on the Metro-North trains to Irvington or Tarrytown.
But it’s hard to say whether you’ll get lucky enough to ride one of these vintage cars on your trip to Irving country.
Find out a bit more about these old trains in my earlier post.
Text and photo: Rolando Pujol
