86 Street
Westside Views, Ceramic Tile pictures in frames on the platform walls
By Nutza Tufiño and community members
The Artwork at 86 Street is part of a community beatification project in the 1980s that worked with recent immigrant students at the Grosvenor Neighborhood House working to get their GEDs, it consists of murals based on scenes throughout the neighborhood. To the modern day traveler they provide glimpses of scenes that could play out today but also ones that are distinctively not today, like a redbird stopped at 96 Street, the Hayden Planetarium, (rebuilt into the Rose Center for Earth and Space, at the Museum of Natural History), and a M104 bus that is still branded for MaBSTOA (still a subsidiary of the MTA for busoperations but their now branded like other buses).
Sources:MTA Arts for Transit Station Page
Martin Espinoza, 20 Years Later, Subway Mural Project Is Still a Source of Pride for the Artists, NYT, January 5, 2009, Online Archive
