{"id":30415,"date":"2019-04-11T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30415"},"modified":"2019-04-11T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T17:25:00","slug":"once-there-were-chandeliers-in-the-new-york-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/04\/11\/once-there-were-chandeliers-in-the-new-york-subway\/","title":{"rendered":"Once There Were Chandeliers in the New York subway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mathewingramblog.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/10\/10firststation01-jumbo-1024x683-1-1024x683.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30523\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s hard to imagine looking at the New York subway today, but at one time taking the subway was a high-class act, and subway stations were designed to be works of art &#8212; like the very first station, which opened underneath City Hall in 1904. It was closed to the public in 1945, in part because the curved tracks couldn&#8217;t accommodate newer trains, and because riders were mostly using the newer stations with faster trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When the city\u2019s first subway station opened in 1904 underneath City Hall in Lower Manhattan, it was a testament to New York\u2019s arrival as a world-class city on par with London, Paris or Rome. The ornate station featured chandeliers, ornamental skylights and soaring archways with zigzagging patterns of terra-cotta tiles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/11\/nyregion\/city-hall-station.html\">Failing New York Subway? Not Always \u2014 Once There Were Chandeliers &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine looking at the New York subway today, but at one time taking the subway was a high-class act, and subway stations were designed to be works of art &#8212; like the very first station, which opened underneath City Hall in 1904. It was closed to the public in 1945, in part &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/04\/11\/once-there-were-chandeliers-in-the-new-york-subway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once There Were Chandeliers in the New York subway&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}