David Schachner marveled at the new subway entrance in front of 125 High St. today - but wondered who ya gonna call to find out when it opens to the public.
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You mean, David? :-P
By David J. Schachner
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:49pm
Daniel is a good name too, but I usually go by David.
Ugh, sorry
By adamg
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:05pm
It's not like your tweet wasn't right in front of my stupid face when I posted that. Fixed.
N Train....
By Hyde_Parker
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:51pm
So, how many stops is that beyond Ditmars?
Which line is going to NYC?
By Michael J. Epstein
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 3:54pm
Which line is going to NYC?
Move over Acela
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:01pm
Love that Ashmont-Manhattanpan High Speed Line!
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com
By DTP
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:03pm
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1196/
!
By Boston_res
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:05pm
Marty's going to be pissed when he sees what they did with his AstroTurf...
Will they leave it up overnight?
By Michael
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:12pm
Folks should go over there and pee all over it for that authentic NYC experience that for some reason can't be filmed in NYC.
Perplexing
By Hyde_Parker
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:41pm
I'm curious why this movie isn't being filmed in NYC. I mean, there are many, many productions filming here all the time, and I think the city has made it a lot cheaper to get permits than in previous years.
Director's Choice
By clio
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:52pm
Apparently Paul Feig is in love with our city. However, they will be shooting some of it in New York. Also - turnabout it fair play, this is payback for The Departed (most of which was shot in NY, subbing for Boston)
What parts of the Departed
By bosguy22
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 8:40am
were filmed in NYC? All I can remember are the scenes on the Common, in Ft. Point, in Beacon hill.
If I recall, MTA/NYCTA is (or
By Rob
Fri, 07/17/2015 - 12:06pm
If I recall, MTA/NYCTA is (or used to be) a little leery of filming in or portraying one of their actual stations - at least when it goes to questions of the perception of security (or lack thereof) or the perception of giving a "how to" commit a murder/terror attack.
Back when I watched TV far more frequently than I do now, I recall a couple of episodes of Law & Order that had to work around that.
One was a murder on an A train in a station. They couldn't arrange filming in any NYCTA station, so they called the Port Authority, arranged to use a station one night (Christopher St, I think), slapped an "A" on a PATH train window, and hung signs for an A train station covering the regular PATH signs along the platform.
Another time the episode revolved around someone firebombing a subway station. Partly because the TA didn't want to show how someone might bomb one of their stations (and partly because showing it would've been complicated, time-consuming and expensive for the producers), they didn't show the interior. They just had Briscoe & Curtis (or whoever it was on the show then) arrive at a chaotic scene at street level - police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, dishevled survivors - at a fictional station (106th St) on the IRT on Broadway in upper Manhattan. They're about to go downstairs to check out the crime scene and the dead bodies when someone from NYFD waves them off and says the area is being screened for HazMat. Problem solved.
Scents-around!
By SwirlyGrrl
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:08pm
Anyone remember Earthquake! in Sensaround?
Kind of like that, but with an olfactory twist!
There is no ...
By cityfolk
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:16pm
... 50th Street NQR station.
There are also no
By Lando
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:35pm
There are also no Ghostbusters...
But we do have Ghost Hunters.
By Kinopio
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:48pm
But we do have Ghost Hunters. 213 episodes worth of their adventures in proving that ghosts don't exist.
other end of 49th street station
By jil
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 5:31pm
is at 50th
Nope. The other end is at
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:42pm
Nope. The other end is at 47th.
it's at 47th, and even so it
By tape
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:00pm
it's at 47th, and even so it's still labelled "49 Street".
But what we call 125 High St
By Michael
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 10:09pm
Is actually East 3,538th Street.
There is on this map!
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 7:37pm
http://xkcd.com/1196/large/
It does exist!
(And yes I'm sure we've all seen this map more times than we can count.)
a few thoughts...
By Rob
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 4:33pm
1.
You can tell by the color-coded globe - mixed green & white means that it's an entrance, but limited hours. Solid green is a 24/7 entrance. Red is exit only.
2. Clearly, this photo is first of a new feature - the Boston Library/Archives future photos. Can you tell us where this WILL be? Since 50th St Station is a midtown station, that clearly can't be High St. It's post-Olympics Widett Circle!
Nope. The white bottom half
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 6:39pm
Nope. The white bottom half doesn't mean anything, and just serves to light up the area. If the top half (or the whole globe) is green, the entrance is open 24/7. If it's red, it's open less than that (maybe part time, maybe exit only).
The MTA globe colors remind me
By roadman
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 9:29am
of when MBTA subway stations had different colored end walls to indicate which direction you were facing. I beleieve the last standing examples of this treatment were at Government Center, and survived until they closed the station last year.
Gov Center Takes 2 years to rebuild
By anon
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 5:00pm
But they can build this in a day!@!?!!!
Now it can be told!
By Rob
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:38pm
Now it can be told!
MTA/NYCTA has finally gone ahead with construction of the long-awaited 2nd Avenue Subway!
They're having it built in Boston and delivered to New York by barge!
The entrance covered in green
By Matthew
Wed, 07/15/2015 - 11:59pm
Must be ectoplasm!!!
Or a greenscreen, blah.
I assume it gets taken down
By Chris77
Thu, 07/16/2015 - 8:00am
I assume it gets taken down at 12:30 a.m. each night.
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