Daytime scene inside an underground subway station in a famous city, facing down an ornately tiled, declining corridor with an overhead sign indicating which way to go for the trains it serves - the J, N, Q, Z, and Six lines; the decorative tiles have accents that incorporate Chinese symbology and art, because this is the City's Chinatown; at the end of the corridor, a very wide wall is covered with white, eight-inch tiles - each with a unique pictogram of ancient Chinese folklore; this wall was created by artist Bing Lee in nineteen-ninety-eight and it commemorates the seventeen-ninety-four arrival in the City of the ship "Empress of China," which brought tea, porcelain, and other treasures from Asia which most had never before seen; the term "China" for porcelain is said to have come from this event; this creative work is part of the artist's "Picto-diary" project; a young woman with pretty hair and fashion sense briskly makes her way down the corridor to another level of the station, which is somewhat of a maze, and heading either uptown or to another borough of the City.
New York photo of the day.
Manhattan.
33°F (1° C), variably cloudy.
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