My subway impressions

I was doing a search for subway stations because I needed to see them as a reference and such cool things came up. This is the station in downtown Manhattan next to City Hall.  This image was taken in 1917, it looks the same today. It's a rustic green, not sure if that was the color in 1917, but I assume so.

What I like about it is that it's near Park Row, where all the newspapers were in New York. This was probably the subway station they used back then, it's right near where the original New York Times was and the New York World and Tribune and the Sun down the block. But that whole scene near City Hall is right out of the past, City Hall, the subway station and other scenery around the area probably are exactly the same as they were 100 years ago.

This image is from the early 1900s, in the downtown area of New York, there are still a few of these around.

My favorite is probably Union Square, so many life experiences have happened here. Of course I love to go to the farmers market and the holiday bazaar every year, but even as a teenager I used to remember taking the L line, which was the LL at the time, to visit my grandmother a few stops away in Brooklyn. It was sort of run down and creepy at the time. Now I can take the L line right from here to Williamsburg in just one stop. It's a great area to hand out now.

 This was the subway being built at Union Square in 1901. I'm not sure if it's the same line, but I believe it is -- one of my older aunts told me about riding the subway when it first opened in 1905. She said it was free all week and you could take it anywhere it went. They lived near the LL line in Greenpoint/Williamsburg Brooklyn, which this line still services today, so I am assuming this was the line she was referring to. I think it was the only line that went through their neighborhood.

This is a subway entrance in Frankfurt Germany. Not sure if I like this one.