Showing posts with label entrance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label entrance. Show all posts

Saturday, February 23, 2008

New York - Part 2

We continue our walk through New York with some lighted signs:

Subway entrance on 42nd Street near Times Square. Photo by Joe Shlabotnik. License: CC-BY

Jay Street station. Photo by Marcin Wichary. License: CC-BY

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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Montreal 2

Photo by JasonJT. License: CC-BY-ND

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Bucharest North Station

One of the many entries to one of Bucharest's main metro stations: Gara de Nord (North Station). You can see both the old sign (the M on the post) and the new one (above the billboard), as well as the other sign above the entrance, which shows the lines you can use from here.

Photo by rjw1. License: CC-BY-SA

Saturday, February 9, 2008

New York - Part 1

New York has arguably the biggest diversity of subway signs. Here are a few of them:

Photo by Marcin Wichary. License: CC-BY
Photo by midweekpost. License: CC-BY

Friday, February 8, 2008

Paris Métro Art Nouveau Entrances

Photo by psd. License: CC-BY
Photo by stevecadman. License: CC-BY-SA

The first line of the Paris Métro, Maillot-Vincennes, was inaugurated on 19 July 1900 during the Paris World's Fair. Entrances to stations were designed in art nouveau style by Hector Guimard. Eighty-six of his entrances are still in existence.
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