WAs in NYC over the weekend, and noticed fish sculptures while taking the stairs street level from the platform. I’m pretty sure this was at the Whitehall St terminal (or whatever one exits right at the Manhattan side of the Staten Island Ferry).
The fish in question (public link to facebook photo album picture)
What gives? Thanks.
Probably MTA’s Arts for Transit Program. All kinds of cool stuff in the subways. When I was there last year I noticed at one of the terminals all of the collumns had cool, weird little bronze sculpted ears on them.
It’s public art. If you’d gone elsewhere you could’ve found this:
And given the location, the art was fish because of the nearby site of the former Fulton Fish Market.
Come to think of it, I think the ears were in the Theater District. 
1% of all NYC-funded construction projects goes to beautification – or at least artistic embellishment, of the thing to be built. “Percent for Art” – signed in to law by Mayor Koch.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcla/html/panyc/panyc.shtml
My favorite project is at Houston on the 1 – large mosaics of sea life swimming through the subway tunnels and stations. Images here
The alligators in the sewers gotta eat sumthin.
Look at the link I posted. The alligators evidently eat little brass sculpture kids.
Excellent, thanks. Love the alligators.
They must have eaten all the rats, too. I like looking for rats near the rails, but haven’t seen any the last couple times I’ve been there. I miss them…
True story. The stop nearest the Natural History Museum (I think that’s 79th on the 8th Ave.) has casts (in bronze, I think) of fossils on the walls (this has to predate Mayor Koch by a lot, incidentally). One day an anthropologist or maybe a student, noticed an interesting thing on one of these casts, looked closer, and made a surprising discovery. IIRC, it was that the creature was pregnant.
The renovation of the Museum of Natural History station (The C or B at 81st, which exits directly into the museum) including the installation called “For Want of a Nail”, which includes casts, mosaics, and other representations of natural life, began in 1998.
Unless there is a previous installation I am not aware of.