NYC: Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. on the Subway Platform

NYC: Small Collection of Subway Tile Art

Yesterday's blog offers two sites with large samples of NYC tiles. 

An inviting lifetime of underground exploration!

NYC: Gleaming Subway Tiles at Canal Street, N Line

Interesting tile blog: https://tilesinnewyork.blogspot.com/2012/08/subway-tiles-part-ii-heins-and-lafarge.html

Google images: https://www.google.com/search?q=nyc+subway+tiles&num=50&safe=active&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjEy8rp4YjSAhUL64MKHftwDRQQ_AUICCgB&biw=1403&bih=802

NYC: Q at 86, His Nostril and Facial Crease

NYC: Q at 86, His Facial Hair and Glasses

NYC: Q at 86, Her Left Eye

NYC: Q at 96, Crows

NYC: Subway Art

NYC: Circus Comes to the Subway

NYC: Dogs in the Subway

NYC: New Q Train 72nd Street Station

NYC: Blue Tiles Above the Financial District

Tiles on Vacant Building in Iron Country

 

Washington DC: Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is a jewel box of tile work, not to mention the collections. Let me just amaze readers with numbers, taken from Wikipedia:

23,892,068 catalogued books in the Library of Congress Classification system; 

5,711 incunabula (books printed before 1500); 

14,067,260 monographs and serials, music, bound newspapers, pamphlets, technical reports, and other printed material;

and 122,810,430 items in the nonclassified (special) collections:

160,775,469 total Items

I had thought that I would find it but was still quite moved to learn that a copy of my grandmother Dorothy Leonard's small self-published book of poetry, Buttressed from Moonlight, is here and entered in the digital catalog. 

NYC: Entrance to New Subway Stop on the 7 at Hudson Yards

NYC: Malcolm X Quotation in Tile by Maren Hassinger, at the 110 St. Subway Station

Louis C. Tiffany: Detail of Garden Landscape and Fountain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

Bowling Green, NYC: International Mercantile Marine Company

Number One Broadway at the Battery, built 1882, housed steamship company offices and so was decorated with a nautical theme. These ten Venetian mosaic shields of the great port cities of the 1920s are placed between the windows on the second floor.

I'm not in NYC this week. I've been sorting photos and came across these from a trip in the fall.