Sometimes the very places we take for granted turn out to be the ones which are most filled with mystery and wonder. On this day we explored New York's Underground and asked questions about the ways in which public spaces consciously and unconsciously speak to us.

Our trip started at Grand Central Station and then took us Underground to the abandoned (and most beautiful) City Hall Station. Although it is no longer used, in the darkness we could still see the vaulted arches and chandeliers. Quite a difference from today's stations!

Staying underground we traveled beneath the East River and arrived in Brooklyn. We walked to the Transit Museum, which is housed in an abandoned subway station. One of the best museums in New York, we were able to wander through the history of turnstiles, see how the subways were built, and walk through subway cars which stretched like a train of history from the beginning of subways at the turn of the century all the way up to the turn of this century.

Conversation ran as deep as the subway tunnels and we talked about time, history and change, love and the future. We asked ourselves about public art and the roles of train stations and bus stops and as we moved through each on our way home, we were more conscious than we had been before of the ways in which we are quietly shaped when we move underground.

 

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