79th Street Subway Station

This is an average station by New York standards but pretty dingy and showing bad signs of aging .It’s over a 100 years old, so I’ll be kind. No one that old ages well. However, I’ve definitely experienced way, way better stations. The original artwork, the little that you can see of it, if you aren’t besotted by the grime and the general ugliness is pretty cool. Thankfully this station doesn’t smell of human excrement. Yes, I am looking at you 34^th Station.
I was particularly appalled that people with bikes blithely passed through the emergency exits (boldy marked as such), setting off a god awful caterwauling each time. I know that folk from the city don’t bat an eyelid but this foreigner’s law abiding sensibilities have been assaulted.
79^th St. Subway Station: you’ve been a constant companion during my stay in the city, and I have grown to like you, but 2 stars it still is.