Life As We Snow It

Mario Carosa cleans snow from his windshield in Brooklyn today, February 2, 1962

Mario Carosa cleans snow from his windshield in Brooklyn today, February 2, 1962
Marker drawings on acrylic glass subway car window
from the New York City (Brooklyn) estate of a former MTA contractor who was instructed by the Authority, years ago, to discard the object as part of a rubble pile. In 1984 the NYC Transit Authority (part of the MTA) initiated a massive graffiti clean up campaign of its stations and cars. This window suffers from both graffiti (which could have been cleaned) and damage to the glass itself (which was un-repairable), hence it was replaced and discarded [Live Auctioneers]


designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold
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you can still see some of the original facade in The Robert Wood Johnson Jr Gallery!!!!

and two staircases from the Museum’s original 1880 building live on!!!!

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