escalator

Escalation

53rd St and Madison Avenue subway station, New York

Is this a liminal space? It’s definitely in-between (the street and the subway platform). The blacked-out former advertising hoardings give it an abandoned air.

Since we finished viewing the Fin-de-Siècle on level -8 the way to exit is via an elevator that’s immense with couches like the one shown below on both sides of it. Then an escalator ride and some stairs to emerge again at level 0.