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Posted by Wizlish on Sunday, February 1, 2015 4:25 PM

Waow maaaaaaaan....  heee's PERFECKLY safe...  'at lion remindsch me of...

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Posted by NorthWest on Sunday, February 1, 2015 12:36 PM

Hey! You said he'd always be in a safe place!

 

Wink

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, February 1, 2015 12:12 PM

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 31, 2015 1:54 PM

Looks like you foujnd both the LION and the Station.

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Posted by narig01 on Saturday, January 31, 2015 1:20 PM
PS 77th St on the 4th Av line.
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Posted by narig01 on Saturday, January 31, 2015 1:13 PM
On top of the rightmost 77th Street sign in front of the orange tile. Rgds IGN
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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 31, 2015 9:08 AM

ROAR

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 30, 2015 9:35 AM

Yes, that is where him is sitting.

A LION on the rail is worth two in the Bush!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 30, 2015 9:34 AM

LION might be eying the bumper post (almost certainly is), but not from the bush.

LION is not sure when the picture was taken, but it surely was not last year, as him got not into the city in '14.

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Posted by narig01 on Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:59 PM
I had to look twice as I almost didn't recognize the place. Fulton St on the Franklin Av Shuttle. Maybe I'm getting too old, for some reason I thought Fulton St was wider. Also when was this pic taken? Google Maps shows the chicken place is now a Dunkin Donuts. Also only in New York a Chinese Restaurant that advertises Halal. ! Thx IGN
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Posted by NorthWest on Thursday, January 29, 2015 9:41 PM

Lion is eyeing the bumping post from in the bush at the edge of the elevated platform.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Thursday, January 29, 2015 5:31 PM

ROAR

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by NorthWest on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:54 PM

Looks like the R-74 Signal Supply Train pulled by an R-134 locomotive. (Plus other unidentified R-127/R-134s.)

Lion is sitting on the door sill of the second R-74.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:55 AM

The Mystery Express....

Find the Lion and Name that Train!

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 10:43 AM

MidlandMike

I heard on the news that for today's storm, they shut down the NY subway for the first time.  Is that true?

 

Yes and no.

This is the first time that it has been shut down pro-actively, ahead of the storm with instructions for the residents to stay home or to be where they had to be before a planned shutdown.

It has been closed down by storms in the past at least partially, if not completely as per Sandy, but these were not planned closings, they were forced closings.

It has aslo been shut down totally due to strikes.

Even before Sandy there was a snow storm that crippled parts of the system, stranding people in trains for hours without powers.

In response to that I wrote to the Inspector General of the MTA with the suggestion of a phased shutdown of the system in the face of incoming weather, and that I called "Snow Plan-5". Plans 1-4 regard the protection and placement of equipment only. This plan was not to be called by the MTA so much as it was by the City governemnt in cooperation with police and fire.

LION has not the extreme hubris to presume that they adopted my plan, but it certainly looks like the one that I sent to the Inspector General.

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Posted by daveklepper on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:08 AM

Looks like the original "1"`line IRT South Ferry Station back in use while the new station is being rebuilt to recover from flood damage.

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Posted by MidlandMike on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 6:51 PM

I heard on the news that for today's storm, they shut down the NY subway for the first time.  Is that true?

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Posted by Wizlish on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 12:23 PM

He's not, ahem, noshing (to use a New York expression) on the child presumably in that stroller, right?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Tuesday, January 27, 2015 9:04 AM

Yup, there is him, now he is hiding again...

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Posted by NorthWest on Monday, January 26, 2015 9:02 PM

Sitting next to the far right edge of the tunnel portal at the bottom, in between the utility box and the shed.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 26, 2015 1:58 PM

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 25, 2015 7:29 PM

But the LION is always in focus.

I think he is on that stairway in the distance, he is headed up to the street me thinks. Maybe tastery pickings up there.

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Posted by Wizlish on Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:50 PM

BroadwayLion
Nope. The LION is down the other end of the platform, about even with the departing train.

Better look fast before he gets away.

Blew the image up as far as I could get it to go on this laptop and all I can see is a yellow tennis ball.  The restricted depth of field in these shots is starting to kill my eyes.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 25, 2015 5:39 PM

Nope. The LION is down the other end of the platform, about even with the departing train.

Better look fast before he gets away.

 

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Posted by Wizlish on Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:19 PM

Is that Lion's friend the baby bunny rabbit in the round light at the top of the column just to the right of the upraised arm of the guy in the white shirt at left?

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:23 AM

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Posted by Wizlish on Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:19 PM

BroadwayLion

 

 
I think I see him atop the green corbel on the top of the pillar with the "Prospect Park" sign at right.  His coat blends in nicely with the tan paint!
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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 24, 2015 9:51 AM

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Saturday, January 24, 2015 8:59 AM

Your 24 hours to find the LION is (almost) up, therefore the LION wins this one.

He is standing on a bracket (or something) on the signal, blending in with the rust on the I beam.

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, January 23, 2015 10:07 AM

ROAR

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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