A lot of subway riders travelling downtown recently will have noticed something astonishing about St. Patrick subway station: It’s starting to look something like it is supposed to. The new green tiles are being installed on the walls.
This might not seem like something to take notice of — subway tiles in a subway station is kind of the default look. And yet, at St. Patrick, for a long, long time, it has not been the look. Instead, the walls were stripped bare to expose ribs of circular steel girders mounted on concrete, with spraypaint on the structural walls visible underneath and pipes of various kinds exposed above.
8 years…
