All Photos By Gail

As part of the MTA Arts & Design program (formerly known as MTA Arts for Transit), the platform walls at the Broadway and 23rd Street Subway stops for the N and R Trains are decorated with a seemingly endless row of colorful tile mosaics depicting a series of eclectic Hats previously worn on the heads many and varied famous people from times past. Here are few we photo-captured while out on an Urban Safari this last weekend!

Evelyn Nesbitt, Artist’s Model, Actress, Chorus Girl

Samuel Clemens (AKA Mark Twain), Author

Phineas T. Barnum, Museum Owner and Circus Entrepreneur

Charles Sherwood Stratton (AKA Tom Thumb), PT Barnum Performer

Erik Weiss (AKA Harry Houdini), Magician

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

Winslow Homer, Painter

Marie Curie, Physicist

Robert Ross McBurney, Founder of the YMCA, and Julia Ward Howe, Poet

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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