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AMNH Subway Art #78
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 23, 2008 tags: Hymenoptera, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife Hornet/wasp species (but which one?) as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the West 77th street entrance to the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash). Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
AMNH Subway Art #76
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 21, 2008 tags: Osteichthyes, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife These are tropical marine anenomefishes, Amphiprion species, as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the downtown-bound landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash). Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
AMNH Subway Art #75
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 20, 2008 tags: Decapoda, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife These are two marine crab species (which ones? and the one on the left appears to have eggs coating her upper carapace) as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the downtown-bound landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no…
AMNH Subway Art #74 [Detail]
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 19, 2008 tags: Osteichthyes, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife This is a tropical marine fish species (which one?) as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the downtown-bound landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash). Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
AMNH Subway Art #73
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 18, 2008 tags: Osteichthyes, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife A great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda, as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the downtown-bound landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash). Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size].
AMNH Subway Art #72
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 17, 2008 tags: echinodermata, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife Perhaps this is a bat star, Asterina miniata? as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the downtown-bound landing of the NYC subway stop (A-B-C) at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash). Image: GrrlScientist 2008. [wallpaper size]. The doctors instructed me to move…
AMNH Subway Art #70 [Detail]
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 15, 2008 tags: astronomy, solar system, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife Since I am having trouble getting out to roam the city and take pictures, I thought I’d return us to the upstairs subway platform at AMNH for a couple days to look at a few pieces that I haven’t yet shared with you. Solar system as…
AMNH Subway Art #67
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on March 12, 2008 tags: mystery bird, fossil bird, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife Since I am having trouble getting out to roam the city and take pictures, I thought I’d return us to the upstairs subway platform at AMNH for a couple days to look at a few pieces that I haven’t yet shared with you. Mystery bird…
A Brief History of the Subway Tile Art at 81st & CPW (AMNH Station)
Posted by "GrrlScientist" on February 16, 2008 New York’s subway station at 81st and Central Park West (CPW), also known as the AMNH subway station, was first opened on 10 September 1932, and rennovation of this station was completed in 1999 after the planetarium had been added to the Natural History Museum in 1990 (at a great cost that still has not…