Anderson Street Station (Future)

[BLeafe]

Week 49

I added two shots of the open eastern side.

It'll be interesting to hear what the commuters think of this replacement railroad station, whose original cost estimate was $571,000 for a 6-month job.

I wonder what the final amount will be for this project - a station that at this point seems more like a carport with a doorless garage in back and took a full year (as of mid-March) to complete.

[BLeafe]

Week 50

I haven't seen anyone there all week, but the floor covering is off, so there was some activity.

[BLeafe]

Update

Saw some workers there today, so I stopped in.

The gutters have been installed and the building is awaiting its final inspection. Once the CO is issued, the fences will come down and the station will open. Again, the guess is "two weeks".

The "Anderson Street Station" signs, however, may not be here for 4-5 weeks. If there's a Grand Opening ceremony, it won't occur until the signs are up, so the station will open without any fanfare.

[BLeafe]

Week 51

Little by little...........

[BLeafe]

Week 52

New this week: little blue and white signs.


Any week now..................

[BLeafe]

Week 53 (one year as of this Monday)

They got the CO earlier in the week and the fences came down this morning. They're still finishing up things inside (installing the ticket machine, etc.), so the few commuters I saw at 10:30am were still waiting outside in the light drizzle.

As soon as I got there, a train was pulling in (southbound trains have the engine in the rear), so this may be the first photo of a train arriving at an un-fenced-in new Anderson St Station.

However, the thing I've been waiting for is the fence finally coming down.

I'll post more photos later.

[BLeafe]

Week 53 (continued)

The Anderson St Station sign is still "a couple of weeks away". I saw the plans and two signs will be in front (the other one is Braille).

Pix:

1. The usual back view, plus the Rent-A-Fence truck

2. The usual front view, except I now don't have to hold the camera high over the fence to get it. In the rear right, another section of fence is being carried to the truck and someone's on a ladder making lighting adjustments.

3. You can see a couple of benches for commuters and work still going on in back.

4. Ceiling, lights, heaters, but no "Do Not Perch or Crap" signs.

5. All of a sudden, the lights were turned on.

6. Less than a minute later, the heaters also came to life.

7. The open side view

8. Front and side

9. A no-nest-construction zone

10. Welcome to the new Anderson Street Station

[BLeafe]

Week 54

This is the next-to-final version (the final will be when the "Anderson Street Station" sign is put up).

Everything is now where it should be - the workers, the fences, and the bus shelter are gone, it's being used (though not when I shot this at 11am), and the first of the 346 dispensers of various publications has popped up ("El Especialito", in third and fourth pix).

[BLeafe]

I just dragged it out for a year for effect.

This isn't exactly the flipbook I envisioned in Week 2, but it'll do. It's 54 weeks in 54 seconds. I didn't cut out any weeks of inactivity.

When the "Anderson Street Station" sign goes up, I'll add it into this for a final version.

[Editor]

Nice work Bob.  It's interesting to see how everything comes together,- eventually. 

[BLeafe]

This was a mistake.

As you may know from the HDR (High Definition Range) photography topic, HDR involves multiple tripoded photos of the exact same thing taken at different exposures and run through an HDR program to create an interesting image.

Last night, I decided to take some photos for 5 HDR's of the new Anderson St Station before the building's signage is put up.

Working with groups of 3 photos per image, I accidentally selected a trio that were adjacent to each other, but two (normal and overexposed) were from one group and one (underexposed) was from another.

The two prominent ones were taken from the northeast angle and the dark one was from the southeast. This resulted in 2 views of the building next door and crisscrossing tracks. The Rite Aid Pharmacy sign is on the side of the Straphanger Saloon and the station has way too many pillars, but it works.

The partially-visible "STAND BEHIND YELLOW LINE" won't be of much help, but the much bigger problem will occur when Susie-Q and Erie trains arrive simultaneously.


WARNING: A whole new world has opened up - I may do more of these.


Click to enlarge.

[Homer Jones]

Great photo-- if the station had a sign on it, we would know where the photo was taken.

[BLeafe]

Here ya go...........

[Homer Jones]

Now I know. The police  wrote the guy's name on the south bound tracks after the 5:17 into Hoboken Photoshopped the photographer from digital into departed.

[Editor]

Prior to Homer's post, I had written: "I'm sure this is what it looks like to some people coming out of the Straphanger at 2am".  I then deleted my own post fearing it may be misconstrued by both drunks and artists alike.  Rather than have Homer's comment stand out of context, I reinserted it. 

Bottom line: I really like the abstraction. Very trippy.