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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Eight: A city portrait -- impressions of New York > 125th Street Subway Station, New York City, New York, 2009
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23-MAR-2009

125th Street Subway Station, New York City, New York, 2009

The New York subway system has 468 stations, the largest number of public transit subway stations for any system in the world. More than five million people take its trains on weekdays, and in this shot, I find three of them ascending to Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local’s elevated platform at 125th Street, near Riverside Park. The light passing through the windows abstracts the figures and illuminates the graffiti that decorates so much of New York City.

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Phil Douglis03-Apr-2009 01:56
Thanks, Carol and Tim -- I saw a touch of Hopper here. Urban alienation was a favorite theme of his. You give the alienated here an identity with your observation, Tim.
Tim May02-Apr-2009 23:48
Without the graffiti this image could represent the nameless millions who seem to work like cogs in a wheel to make the city function. Yet the graffiti reminds us that each cog has color and individuality.
Carol E Sandgren31-Mar-2009 00:19
Wonderful! MY kind of shot.
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