A NY Times Branded Shuttle

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Late last year, The New York Times Theater section took over the Shuttle train between Times Square and Grand Central. The train, which Kathryn Yu caught, was made to look like a Broadway theater including doors between cars that were "backstage", car ceilings that looked like a theater ceiling, but the best might be how the seats in the subway look like theater seats.

What's next for the Shuttle? It's been a Broadway theater, Middle Earth for Lord of the Rings, and had a western motif for Deadwood. Perhaps a Warriors car (graffiti, gang members, pee smelling cars), Winter Olympics car (scantily clad figure skater types, fake snow, and masking agents), or a London tourism tube ("please mind the gap," bad teeth and cool accents, police officers in British constable hats, running around with clubs saying "oy oy oy.").

Photo by Kathryn Yu

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This is freakish and scary. And it looks like all white people in the front rows (okay, I see some Asians, but still)!

That's because it's supposed to be a BROADWAY SHOW hahahahahahaha.

But seriously, I hate "themed" subway cars, whether it is wall-to-wall like this or just all the normal ads. Long live Dr. Zizmor.

That pic looks like the closing shot of the party portrait in "The Shining"

"Graffiti, gang members, pee smelling cars"? Shit, I ride those "theme" cars every day. Oh, snap!

I wonder how these folks feel about having their faces plastered on a subway car. I never thought about 'The Shining' reference but now that just makes it even creepier.

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Cant anybody tell these are composite shots? One of the links even says says in it's caption.

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