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New stations on the Second Avenue Subway have porcelain tiles and built-in artwork. [10] The walls adjacent to the tracks at the new 34th Street station have white tiles arranged in sets of three columns of 3 tiles each. There are two-tile-high gray squares containing white "34"s in the middle of each set of columns. [11]
[7]: 9 [6]: 4 At 50-foot (15 m) intervals along the station walls, there are 5-by-8-foot (1.5 by 2.4 m) mosaic panels with blue, buff, and cream tiles in tapestry designs. [7]: 9 [6]: 4 [82] Atop each wall is a frieze with blue and buff mosaic tiles, with scrolled motifs protruding below the frieze band. The walls near the tracks do not have ...
The spire of the church rested upon a shallow masonry foundation built upon a deep layer of fine sand. The spire's foundation was 9 feet (2.7 m) behind the subway tunnel's exterior wall, and the bottom of the spire foundation was 9 feet (2.7 m) below street level, much shallower than the subway's 24-foot-deep (7.3 m) foundation.
The walls along the platforms near the fare control areas consist of a brick wainscoting on the lowest part of the wall, with bronze air vents along the wainscoting, and white glass tiles above. Bands of blue mosaic tiles run above the wainscoting. A cornice with foliate motifs runs above each wall.
The first of these is Radiant Site by Michele Oka Doner, which consists of 11,000 gold-colored wall tiles. [69] [70] The tiles were manufactured at Pewabic Pottery in Michigan [71] and installed along a 165-foot-long (50 m) stretch of passageway; [70] according to Oka Doner, they were meant "to fill the underground with light and feeling". [69]
The station originally had red tile bands, similar to those used on the Independent Subway System. [48] [49] This station was renovated in the late 1990s and a mosaic design was added to the platform walls. Beneath a small green and gold trim-line is a larger gold trim-line with a maroon border and white "B" and "BROAD ST" tablets on a blue ...