NEW AND OLD DOWNTOWN: Wall Street and South Ferry

THEY WENT BRODAWAY and other subway sign errors

LAST DAYS AT SOUTH FERRY

MORE SUBWAY SECRETS. Ancient IND pillar inscriptions and more.

ONE OF OUR SUBSTATIONS IS MISSING. Some of NYC's remaining subway and el power sources.

WITHERING MYRTLE. The last days of the Myrtle Avenue El.

LIVING FOR THE CITY. My first visit to City Hall station since 1998.

THE ORIGINAL 28, PART 2. A look at the artwork from the NYC's first 28 stations, opened October 27, 1904.

THE ORIGINAL 28, PART 1. A look at the artwork from the NYC's first 28 stations, opened October 27, 1904.

SUBWAY STYLE. Subway signage and lighting highlights.

JOURNEY TO THE PAST. A trip through several abandoned stations on 1917-1924 Low V IRT cars..

THE NEW MOSAICS. It's a new golden age for subway artwork.

DOWN IN THE HOLE. The many styles of subway entrances.

1917 AGAIN. A look at 1917 IRT "Low-V' cars plus early Redbirds.

GATE CRASHIN'. Riding 1907 Brooklyn rapid transit elevated cars.

THE REAL SUBWAY. Another look at what the MTA would rather you not see.

BYE BYE REDBIRD. The demise of the railfan favorites.

POSTCARDS FROM DOWN UNDER. A look at postcards from the subway's earliest era.

CRAZY TRAIN. Some of the more unusual subway stations.

A STAIRCASE TOO FAR. The platforms under the platforms, with Mike Epstein of Satanslaundromat.com.

SUBWAYS, THE WAY THEY OUGHTTA BE. A ride on early IND cars from the 1930s.

CHAMBERS OF HORROR. The real face of the NYC subway system.

THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY. When the subways used modern design.

CULVER'S TRAVELS. The demolition of a Brooklyn elevated link.

ALL'S WELL THAT'S STILLWELL. A trip to the soon-demolished Stillwell Avenue Terminal, going in style on 1925-vintage D-Type Triplexes.

DYRE STRAIGHT. Station houses of the Dyre Avenue line...once a suburban railroad called the New York, Westchester & Boston

RELIQUARIES OF THE RAILS. More subway odds and ends, featuring ancient platform lighting..

THE NEW YORK STUBWAYS. Remnants of long-gone elevated lines.

NYC's MOST UNUSUAL SUBWAY MAP

GRAND OLE OPPY. In the 1940s, one brave woman stood up against the subway spitters, smokers and discourteous miscreants!

REMNANTS OF THE NINTH AVENUE EL. When is a subway not a subway? When it's an el!

IND 4TH AVENUE. An unacknowledged masterpiece that has been allowed to decay.

FRANKLIN AVENUE SHUTTLE. The city has closed this line for reconstruction, but while it was open, it was probably the most decrepit route in the city. Here are some pictures from just before the renovation.

TAKE THE NOSTALGIA TOUR! A ride to Canarsie on 1927-vintage subway cars.

THE DOOR TO NOWHERE. On the Times Square shuttle platform is a locked door, with its destination set in concrete above it. Where does it go?

THE OTHER DOOR TO NOWHERE. Not to be outdone, the Astor Place station (IRT #6) has its very own Door To Nowhere. Where did it go?

THE CITY HALL STATION. The former crown jewel of the IRT, this is the original home station of the original subway. Why has it been closed, and what does it look like now?

THE SUBWAYS REMEMBER. They do a very good job remembering what the streets and neighborhoods above the stations used to be called! Here are just a few examples.

STATION HOUSES. Some subway stations are blessed with depot houses...a reminder of the days when some subways were real railroads.

SUBWAY SIGNS. Even though the MTA is relentless when it comes to replacing old signage in its quest for uniformity, there are still some glorious examples of signs from a rather more ornate era still around.

OUTDATED SIGNS. PATH? Hudson Tubes? H&M? What is it?

ODDS AND ENDS. Some subway-related oddments that defy categorization.

DEAD AT 18. A look at the old IRT 18th Street station, more than 50 years after its passing.

SUBWAY SIGNS TO NOWHERE. Rowan Street, NY Central and the K Train.

TERRA COTTA PLAQUES. The original station designers, Heins & Lafarge, told the history of NYC in unprepossessing little terra cotta plaques. Here we'll look at a couple of the forgotten ones.

REMAINS OF THE THIRD AVE. EL. Gone (in Manhattan) since 1955 and in the Bronx since 1973, a couple of artifacts are still there to remind us it was once there.

LONG DARK ROAD. The Bay Ridge LIRR branch.

BACK ON THE HIGH LINE AGAIN. Exploring the newly-minted raill-to-trail park..

SPLINTERS. The great New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show.

STATIONS OF THE STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY PT. 4 and the neighborhoods they inhabit

STATIONS OF THE STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY PT. 3 and the neighborhoods they inhabit

STATIONS OF THE STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY PT. 2 and the neighborhoods they inhabit

STATIONS OF THE STATEN ISLAND RAILWAY PT. 1 and the neighborhoods they inhabit

NEW! SUBWAY SIGN SMORGASBORD Aged signs around town, from the 60s to the present

HIGH FALUTIN' The High Line gets ready for its time in the sun. But not before FNY remembers its old role.

BIG WHISTLE. The Long Island Rail Road's NYC stations.

GOT CONNECTIONS. A look at the New York Connecting Railroad, one of NYC's few freight lines.

PRIDE IN PORT. Secrets of the Port Washington Branch...the Long Island Rail Road's Jekyll and Hyde branch. Part One and Part Two.

LIKE A ROLLING WHITESTONE. Remnants of the Long Island Rail Road's Whitestone Branch.

DISAPPEARING RAILROAD BLUES. Little-known Queens railroad spurs.

I COVER THE WATERFRONT. Brooklyn's waterfront railroads.

PERILOUS CROSSINGS. NYC's last few remaining railroad grade crossings.

STATION TO STATION. Remnants of abandoned Bronx railroad stations.

THE LIRR IN BROOKLYN. Passenger service hasn't been seen for at least 80 years on both the BUSHWICK and EVERGREEN lines.

WALT WHITMAN'S LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD. A tunnel abandoned even in Walt's day has its secrets uncovered at last.

DAY OF THE DIESEL. Venerable diesel LIRR cars are replaced by sleek bilevel hybrids.

ELVIS AND THE LIRR. What could the King possibly have to do with the Long Island Rail Road?

STEAM BELCHIN' IN THE BIG CITY. A look at a time when the trains ran on Manhattan streets.

THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD . A look at several abandoned Long Island Railroad stations, traces of routes no longer there, and ancient signs that the MTA has somehow forgotten to remove.

ROCKAWAY LINE. Rusted rails and old stanchions recall the path of a direct LIRR connection to the Rockaway peninsula.

THE OLD "PUT". Until 1958, the NY Central Railroad (today's Metro-North) ran a route through the Bronx, into Van Cortlandt Park, and on into Yonkers. Though discontinues decades ago, the old trackbed and the skeletons of a station or two still stand.

STATEN ISLAND RAPID TRANSIT. Today's meager SIRT service to Tottenville from St. George formerly was augmented by routes along the North and South Shores. Ample traces remain of both branches.

THE OLD N.Y.W & B. The New York, Westchester & Boston went bankrupt in 1937. Fear not, though: much of it became the #5 subway line in the Bronx!

THE TRESTLE TO NOWHERE. Well, it used to go somewhere. This is the story of the freight line on the ewest side of Manhattan that seemingly goes through, not around, the buildings it encounters along its route.