Photography Underground
Two photographers with significantly different styles—one capturing
moments in time, the other stretching time beyond moments—are featured
in Lightbox exhibitions at New York City subway stations.
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Customer Service Initiatives
Continuing the massive effort to upgrade and improve mass transit services to its seven million daily bus and subway customers, MTA New York City Transit plans to offer a series of initiatives funded through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2008 budget.
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Public Art Blooms Throughout The Bronx
Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced that under the MTA Arts
for Transit program, more than a dozen NYC Transit station rehabilitation
projects in the Bronx along the 2, 4, and 5 lines included the installation
of permanent art. The artwork consists of faceted glass panels on platforms,
mezzanines, and stairways where light pour s through, adding vibrant color
and vivid images to the stations. Art is now blossoming throughout the borough,
where it is seen by millions of travelers each day.
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MTA
Rolls Out "The Eyes of New York" Ad Campaign
Continued vigilance on everyone's part–from riders to workers to
the bomb-sniffing dogs that patrol the system–is helping to keep subways,
buses, and commuter rail lines safe. That's the message in the latest series
of ads from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to communicate to
customers of MTA New York City Transit, MTA Long Island Rail Road, MTA Long
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Beacon
Celebrates Train Station Improvements
The City of Beacon has a new gateway at its MTA Metro-North Railroad station,
which has been redesigned, expanded with new parking, canopied, and landscaped
to create a welcoming place for arrivals and departures to this growing
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