Second Avenue Subway Phase 2: The case for a crosstown extension on 125th Street
Second Avenue Subway Phase 2: The case for a crosstown extension on 125th Street. Guest author Kristian Laverick
Guest Author: Kristian Laverick
When it was originally conceived in the 1920’s, the Second Avenue Subway (SAS) was intended as a main trunk line running north-south through Manhattan with branches extending to The Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. With the expansiveness of the subway system in Manhattan as it is a hundred years later, the borough doesn’t need more north-south trunk lines: it just…
I recently received a message from a buyer on Etsy who wanted to purchase this Metro Card painting of the Twin Towers :
World Trade Center No. 11
3.25" x 2 “ oil on Metro Card
I’ll admit, it’s a bit somber, gloomy, funereal even. But also a lovely geometry and respectful. No flaming, crashing planes and soaring eagles like so much other WTC "art.”
My buyer asked if I could create another painting to partner with this one: a rendering of the Freedom Tower, currently still under construction at the WTC site.
