Collaboration on the New York Subway Project
In July of 2007, my friend Arun Wiita, then a MD-PhD student at Columbia, visited all 468 of the New York City subway stations, taking photos, notes, and drawings around each of them. I’m jealous that I couldn’t do the same, as at one point I independently wanted to document every station’s unique decorative tile signage. His project consumed two weeks, several lost pounds of body weight, involved many anxious searches for public toilets, and one arrest by the NYPD. His story and an interview were featured in Gothamist, a New York blog.
I developed the interactive map to provide the gateway to his enormous amount of material. You can follow his journey chronologically as he did it, or you can see only particular stations of interest.
