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The New York Times has an interesting profile of the Senior Vice President for subways at NYC Transit, Michael Lombardi, who will retire next month after 45 years with the agency. He began working for the city making $2.63 an hour as a machinist's helper in 1962 and at the age of 18. He feels, along with many others, that his greatest contribution during his career was the work done to pull the subway system out of the slump it had fallen into in the 1970s and early 1980s.

- Various monumental moments in subway history (like when the Warriors comes out)

Gothamist checked out the Bruce Davidson show at the Hermes Gallery.

Hermes is celebrating the subway's centennial with the card holder as well as a gorgeous exhibit of photographer Bruce Davidson's works at their boutique.

Some things to do this weekend: Check out Bruce Davidson's Subway exhibit at the Hermes Gallery and hang out in Chinatown for the New Year.

The Bruce Davidson exhibit, Subway, opens today at the Hermes Gallery, and last night, Gothamist got to check out Davidson's photographs which are beautiful prints of subways and subways riders during the early 1980s last night. The gallery, on the fourth floor of the Hermes Boutique on Madison and East 62nd, is an unexpected treat - who would give up a floor of potential retail space to show art?

Starting this Friday and running till February 28, the gallery at the Hermes store (691 Madison Avenue) will be showing photographer Bruce Davidson's subway photographs. Davidson, who work also includes civil rights moments and a study of an East Harlem street, captured that distinct period of time during the 80s when subway cars were filled with graffiti, crime was terrible, and the Me decade was just beginning. You can see more of his photographs at Magnum Photos.