Thursday, August 24, 2023 – WE ARE TRYING TO GET YOU OFF THE ISLAND NEXT WEEK

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THE ABOVE IS ALL THAT RIOC HAS PUT OUT ABOUT THE WEEKEND BUS SERVICE. NOW SERVICE IS NOT UNTIL 8 P.M.!!

THE MTA IS DISTRIBUTING THESE BROCHURES AT THE SUBWAY STATION, COMPLICATED READING.

WATCH OUR TIK TOK VIDEO ON THE Q TRAIN
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STARTING AUGUST 28

THE F TRAIN SHUTTLE IS A TRAIN.  THERE IS A LOT OF CONFUSION BETWEEN BUS AND TRAIN SHUTTLES
 
DURING THE WEEK FROM 5 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT THERE IS A TRAIN SHUTTLE FROM OUR STATION
 
The “F”SHUTTLE TRAIN WILL ONLY RUN BETWEEN 21 ST/QUEENSBRIDGE, ROOSEVELT ISLAND TO LEXINGTON AVE./63 ST. STATIONS.  THERE IS ONE “F” SHUTTLE TRAIN ON ONE TRACK GOING BACK AND FORTH FROM 5 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT DURING THE WEEK.
 
THERE ARE NO TRAINS GOING EAST TO QUEENS AFTER QUEENSBRIDGE. THERE ARE BUS CONNECTIONS FROM THAT
STATION OPERATED BY THE MTA.

Q TRAIN CONNECTIONS AVAILABLE FROM 63/LEX STATION  SOUTHBOUND
Q TRAIN TO 57 STREET & 7 AVENUE
Q TRAIN TO 42 STREET TIMES SQUARE (CONNECT HERE TO F TRAIN VIA PASSAGE)
Q TRAIN TO 34 STREET (CONNECT HERE TO F TRAIN)
Q TRAIN TO 14 STREET UNION SQUARE
Q TRAIN TO CANAL STREET (OVER MANHATTAN BRIDGE TO BROOKLYN)
Q TRAIN CONNECTIONS AVAILABLE FROM 63/LEX STATION  NORTHBOUND (72 ST., 86 ST., 96 ST AT SECOND AVENUE)

Overnights between midnight and 5 a.m., F shuttle train service is suspended and free Q94 shuttle buses will connect the Roosevelt Island, 21 St-Queensbridge, and Queens Plaza stations. These are MTA buses.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

THURSDAY  AUGUST 24,  2023

ISSUE#  1069

THURSDAY  PHOTO OF THE DAY

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WEDNESDAY  PHOTO OF THE DAY

Lily Furedi, Subway, 1934, oil on canvas, 39 x 48 ¹⁄₄ in. (99.1 x 122.6 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1965.18.43

In this painting Lily Furedi boldly did something that few dare to do: she looked at people on the subway. She took the viewpoint of a seated rider gazing down the car at her fellow passengers. The Hungarian-born artist knew of the subway riders’ customary avoidance of staring at one’s fellow riders; most people in her painting keep to themselves by hiding behind a magazine or newspaper, or by sleeping. Those who violate the unwritten rule do so furtively. A woman takes a quiet sidelong glance at the newspaper read by the man next to her, while a man steals a peek at a young woman applying lipstick. Only two women in the foreground, who obviously know each other, dare to look directly at each other as they talk companionably.

Furedi takes a friendly interest in her fellow subway riders, portraying them sympathetically. She focuses particularly on a musician who has fallen asleep in his formal working clothes, holding his violin case. The artist would have identified with such a New York musician because her father, Samuel Furedi, was a professional cellist.

FROM A READER:
With cane seats, an overhead circular fan, and almost all passengers wearing hats (other than baseball caps), this looks like an Edward Hopper painting of the NYC Subway in the 1930s….except that it has far more people than the Hopper pictures I know.
Regards,
Jay Jacobson

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS

SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
JUDITH BERDY

RIHS

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