Have camera, will travel underground. With forgotten hallways and intriguing nooks, the subways are awash in photogenic sights. So without further ado, The View from Underground.
The West Fourth Street station is a fairly important transfer point. It links the Eighth and Sixth Avenues lines to each other right in the heart of Greenwich Village. But at the north end of the station, a solitary staircase links the northwest corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place to the subways, and its sign directs passengers to a confusing platform.
The most glaring problem, of course, is the presence of the orange Q bullet. Every now and then, I notice the orange bullet on the Q trains I ride, but the Q hasn’t stopped at West 4th St. since 2001, when track work on the Manhattan Bridge had the trains doing all sorts of weird stuff.
Now, it’s all wrong. The F sure does open its doors on the lower level. But two F trains? You might need to wait a long time for that. There’s no sign of the B, D or V, all trains that have long stopped at West 4th St.
Sure, this entrance is hardly used. It features just two HEET entrances. But it’s certainly confusing to see the trains listed as the F, F and Q. It’s more like the start to a terrible Scrabble rack than an accurate picture of the West 4th St. station.
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