{"id":8973,"date":"2015-06-25T20:45:02","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T01:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/?p=8973"},"modified":"2015-06-25T20:47:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T01:47:35","slug":"nyc-subway-14th-street-and-7th-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/nyc-subway-14th-street-and-7th-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The 14th Street\/7th Avenue IRT line is another \u201coriginal mosaics\/no other appreciable art\u201d platforms.  The mosaics themselves are the original trackside \u201c14\u201d tile work, much of which (as you can see from the photos) is fairly water damaged and clearly in need of repair.<\/p>\n<p>The station itself connects via a tunnel to the 6th avenue F\/M\/L (Ha!) lines, but that\u2019s a later-built connection between the two separate IRT and IND systems, and not a \u201cnatural\u201d transfer point.  You\u2019re basically walking a full avenue block (about a quarter-mile) underground in order to save the cost of a subway fare.  Pics of the 6th avenue line platforms are still to come.  The station also apparently had a connection to the 8th avenue A\/C\/E line at some point in the past, but it\u2019s been gated off and is inaccessible today.  <\/p>\n<p>Station opened: July 1, 1918<br \/>\nOriginal system: IRT<br \/>\nTrains: 1\/2\/3<br \/>\nSource\/More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/14th_Street_\/_Sixth_Avenue_(New_York_City_Subway)#IRT_Broadway_.E2.80.93_Seventh_Avenue_Line_platforms\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycsubway.org\/wiki\/IRT_West_Side_Line#14th_Street\">nycsubway.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8666-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | braille signage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8666t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8667-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | wall mosaic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8667t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8668-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | platform\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8668t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8669-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | waterlogged mosaic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8669t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8670-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | cross-platform\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8670t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8672-623x930.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | mens room?\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8672t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8673-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | stairway to nowhere\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8673t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8674-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | this way to the 6th avenue platform\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8674t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8676-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | token booth clerk says hi!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8676t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8677-930x623.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2015.06.25.14th]\" title=\"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue | uptown train arrival\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_8677t.jpg\" height=\"192\" width=\"192\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 14th Street\/7th Avenue IRT line is another \u201coriginal mosaics\/no other appreciable art\u201d platforms. The mosaics themselves are the original trackside \u201c14\u201d tile work, much of which (as you can see from the photos) is fairly water damaged and clearly in need of repair. The station itself connects via a tunnel to the 6th avenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"nyc subway | 14th street and 7th avenue","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,108,109,14,10,103],"class_list":["post-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1-line","tag-2-line","tag-3-line","tag-new-york-city","tag-photos","tag-subway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-2kJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8994,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}