Reverse-Engineered Narrative
The New York City Subway has always been used as an icon to identify the city. It is one of the most efficient subway in the world, as it’s also one of the dirtiest, oldest, and noisy train on earth. It conglomerates people of different social status, cultures and traditions. It is very common to see a man sitting down wearing an impeccable suit and reading his Wall Street Journal, and next to him a construction worker, reading the New York Post and holding his tools and his lunch bag. Both men can be drinking a coffee and eating a doughnut or a bagel.
I’m sure there is a lot written about stories inside the train: love stories, sex stories, robberies, accidents, fights, etc. But, how about the outside of the train station?
What do we know about it? Do you know what kind of building there is on the train station you live at? How about just one stop before or after? Do you still know how it looks?
One day I decided to take pictures of the outside of different train stations, starting in the North Bronx and ending on Lower Manhattan. I chose the number 5 train.
