We found this poster up at our B/C train station at 96th St. several weeks ago and had to take it home. The MTA subway patrol men/guards would have taken it down shortly anyway. Who says guerilla street art is reserved for graffiti artists?
For those who don’t live in NYC: posters in this design/style/font are found throughout the MTA subway system. Rather than a computerized board or overheard announcement, these signs are the only indication you have that you’ll be waiting in vain for that C train to come or that no trains are going express (so it’ll take you 2 hours instead of 45 mins to get from Upper West Side, Manhattan to Park Slope, Brooklyn). And since the MTA is increasingly in debt, apparently over 300 million in the hole now (if you can begin to comprehend that), more and more services and trains will be cut in the coming days, so we’ll be seeing a lot more of these posters, the real ones. Sigh.
