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Flo Ziegfeld and Billie Burke - Subway Hats
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
Broadway actress, Billie Burke married Flo Ziegfeld. Burke is best known as Glinda the Good Witch of the North from the Wizard of Oz.
www.musicals101.com/ziegwho.htm
N R W subway station, Broadway and 23rd Street. View Large
The mosaic work in this station remind me of the also excellent work in the Museum of Natural History station.
Lovely mosaic representation of the hat of William Barclay Parsons. ” In 1894, he became chief engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission, designing the original plan for the Interborough Rapid Transit subway, which opened in 1904. His thorough examinations of Manhattan’s topography resulted in his use of the less expensive and more efficient cut-and-cover construction method for the first subway lines.”
c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/w… View Large
Wooster Walk
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
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Marc and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective near the end of the Wooster Walk this past Sunday. The walk was a lot of fun. I got to meet up with a couple of flickr pals (caromira and wacky doodler) and learn the names of some of the street artists who previously had been anonymous to me. The yellow faced character on the left is by Os Gemeos. |
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Space invader in Soho seen during the walk. |
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Skewville Car glued to the wall. Soho. |
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| Skewville - Fame Game on the “candle building” at Elizabeth and Spring Streets. The wooden portion looks like it is glued to the wall. |
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| The metal arrow appears to be nailed into the concrete blocks with masonry nails, quite a bold, noisy operation, I’m sure.[osgemeos] |
Shad Crossing
Wednesday, April 27th, 2005
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Glass mosaic by Ming Fay in the Delancey Street Subways Station. “For his five-year project, Fay traveled to Germany to work with the mosaic fabricators on glass selection and color choice…On the Brooklyn-bound platform, shad fish, which make runs through our rivers every spring, represent the travel of immigrants across the ocean (and our travels across the Williamsburg Bridge).” |
Fillmore East
Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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The location of the former Fillmore East on Second Avenue. The lamposts is decorated with one of Jim Power’s mosaics.NewYorker of the Month of Jan. 2005, Mosaic Man Putting the pieces back together,‘Mosaic Man’ finds a patron, room |
