Answers About New Yorks Hidden Places, p1

I highly recommend spending time in the passages of Grand Central Terminal. Note in particular the northeast passage, linking the main concourse to Park Avenue and 48th Street, and the upper-level cross-passage, linking Madison and Lexington Avenues across 47th Street. “As Above, So Below” is a series of 13 large-scale mosaic, bronze and glass reliefs created by Ellen Driscoll between the years 1993 and 1999. The pieces are based on myths, legends, and philosophies from around the world, and are intended to guide the viewer through the night sky as seen from five different continents. By depicting ancient scenes in a black-and-white photorealistic style, Driscoll integrates the old and the new, and relates the tedium of public transit to the perpetuity of cosmic events.

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rumor has it that if you stay on the Southbound 6 train after the conductor tells you to get off at Brooklyn Bridge (the last stop), you’ll ride through a beautiful abandoned subway station before the train turns around to go uptown again. Apparently you have to do it during the day so that sunlight illuminates the station from grills on the street, otherwise you can’t see it.

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