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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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