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John Stern on the New York City Subway
"The opposites of surface and depth, rest and motion, work as one throughout the 722 miles of track in America's largest underground transportation system, and it can be asked, "Do we have anything like interior recesses and subterranean tunnels in ourselves?"

John Stern, famed transit photographer and historian, was senior planner for the Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, and is an Aesthetic Realism consultant. This talk was first given on the centennial celebration of the New York City Subway at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, and most recently at the Flushing Library in Queens.




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