NYC Subways Deploy A Touch-Screen Network, Complete With Apps
HERE’S AN INSIDE LOOK AT A BOLD NEW INITIATIVE TO MODERNIZE NYC’S DIGITAL SUBWAY INFRASTRUCTURE.
When I see this, all I can think about is germs.
Next steps for NYC’s payphones?
According to Architizer, New York City’s 11,000 (probably mostly unused) payphones are being transformed for the digital age. And some of the finalists’ designs are really cool.
With a few payphones already turned into WiFi hotspots, some, like FXFOWLE’s NYC Loop pictured above, could also have smartphone features and an “information puddle” for people to use. Other designs have weather data, parking meters, and assistance kiosks rolled into one information hub. It’d be handy for tourists looking where to go in Times Square, or simply when regular New Yorkers hop off the subway and don’t know which way is east or west. And, as the article notes, these super payphones could even provide much-needed communication if another Hurricane Sandy strikes.
Uncovering the First, Fascinating Rulebook for Subway Sign Design
The 180-page binder, the key to the system’s iconic design choices, outlines a meticulous vision of signage intended not merely to look good — though it does — but to simplify navigation of the subterranean labyrinth. In its attention to passenger behavior, the manual goes above and beyond what most of us would term graphic design.
“The subway rider should be given only information at the point of decision,” proclaimed the designers. “Never before. Never after.”
Read more. [Images: NYCTA]
Now I’m interested in what the subway(s) signs looked like BEFORE this. I asked my dad, but he doesn’t really remember.
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File this one under crying at work: a man finds a newborn on a subway platform and he and his partner adopt him and then blub blub blub, I’m sorry I have to go there’s something in both my eyes and my nose.
Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting this baby?” The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”
“But I know it’s not that easy,” he said.
“Well, it can be,” assured the judge before barking off orders to commence with making him and, by extension, me, parents-to-be.
Bonus: Here’s a clip from 2000 of Danny Stewart, the man who found the baby, on Montel Williams’ show:
Read the whole story above. It’s life-affirming.
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How ‘Missed Connections’ Happen in Our Own Homes
Craigslist’s “Missed Connections” section is full of ads posted by people who, in most cases, didn’t take advantage of an opportunity to ask someone out. I think of it happening on a subway, or in a bar, or in line at a Subway. It turns out the most common place it happens in the United States is Walmart. Which makes more sense, actually.
Dorothy Gambrell made this map for Psychology Today, based on where the 100 most recent Missed Connections in each state happened. Apart from the flood of Walmarts, the most striking thing is Indiana’s top spot: “at home.”
Read more. [Image: Dorothy Gambrell/Psychology Today]
Most missed connections happen at Walmart? For shame, America.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/77ae59f07392b015b379e53d81acd964/tumblr_miubgymtIj1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
How ‘Missed Connections’ Happen in Our Own Homes
Craigslist’s “Missed Connections” section is full of ads posted by people who, in most cases, didn’t take advantage of an opportunity to ask someone out. I think of it happening on a subway, or in a bar, or in line at a Subway. It turns out the most common place it happens in the United States is Walmart. Which makes more sense, actually.
Dorothy Gambrell made this map for Psychology Today, based on where the 100 most recent Missed Connections in each state happened. Apart from the flood of Walmarts, the most striking thing is Indiana’s top spot: “at home.”
Read more. [Image: Dorothy Gambrell/Psychology Today]
Most missed connections happen at Walmart? For shame, America.
Fascinating!
crazy!
