Two of us on the 2

Today I start out on the 2 train. I have a companion today, Maria, who is a great friend of mine. She lives out in Brooklyn so I decided to travel to some stops out in Brooklyn first. The first stop we go to is the Clark stop. This stop is located in downtown Brooklyn and has some artwork in it noticeably on the floor. The passageway from the stairs to the elevators has a marble terrazzo floor done by Ray Ring in 1987. He named it the Clark Street Passage. After you take the elevator to street level there is food stores and some places to eat inside the station and you discover that the hotel St. George is overhead. The area is pretty nice as it is downtown Brooklyn. The next stop is the Borough Hall stop. The stop is not that interesting but outside you will fine a hustling and bustling Brooklyn downtown right at the base of the New York Supreme Court building. It is a very busy square and not to mention that it was soo cold that day so standing above ground to take pictures was a quick event. Hoyt stop was next and it was really a beautiful station stop however the station looked like it was in two parts. One part being in a red color scheme and just looked very new and the other part looking older with pastel color scheme. It was weird that the station wasn't overdone fully. The last stop on this trip was the Nevins stop. This stop was a smaller station but had some artwork displayed. It is called Work & Nature by Anton van Dalen done in 1997. Porcelain enamel on steel frieze. This mosaic is 14 inches high by 83 feet long along both walls of the mezzanine. The work is in tones of soft blue, green and ochre like the original platform mosaics. It features stenciled silhouettes in black of a woman operating a sewing machine, a mother taking cvare of a child, a man planting a tree, an architect reading a blueprint, a female executive addresseing a meeting, and famous musician Furry Lewis. Source: mta.info. I only ended up visiting 4 stops today but plan to do a lot more the next time I venture out. It was great to have someone with me who may see things in a different light then I do as we travel through the subway stations.