I have been away on vacation for the past week and a half and have taken a break from traveling on the NYC subways. I turned in my Metro card for a bicycle to ride around the beautiful city of Copenhagen. What a time that was but I am not going to get into my vacation. That is not what this blog is about so lets get down to business. I start out on a new subway line, the D line. The D is the 6th Avenue Express and I have already covered the B line and that does a lot of local stops on the same route so the D line shouldn't take me that long to cover. I decided to go out to Brooklyn and cover those stops first. 36th street and 4th Avenue was where I got off first. There is beautiful artwork at this stop called An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders by Owen Smith done in 1998. The mural depicts the design, construction, and riders of the subway. Two other mosaics above the stairways depict amusement rides at Coney Island framed by the stairway of a Brooklyn brownstone house, and the New York city skyline with Rockettes and a paper tape stock ticker. I spent some time at this stop due to the artwork and then proceeded to 9th Avenue and 39th Street. This stop was an outdoor stop with some old fashioned lanterns which I thought were quite nice to see. Fort Hamilton Parkway was another outdoor station and a very Jewish inhabited area. I caught a Jewish woman on the platform across the way reading a map. I believe the best photos of people are when they are totally unaware that you are taking their pictures. 50th street is next and the remaining stops are all outdoor which didn't bother me a bit because it was a beautiful warm sunny day. I really liked that bright red color of the inside of the station. It looked like it was newly painted. 55th and 62nd street stops were much of the same except 62nd street had some great views because the buildings aren't tall at all in that area of Brooklyn and it was a great platform to stand from and just daydream. 71st Street was the last stop of the day and was pretty much the same feeling as the others but I still got some scenic shots. Until next time....