Permit for photographing NY subway?

[vihao]

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/nyregion/07subway.html?

ex=1106110887&ei=1&en=497e12af6caf364b">NY Times Article</a><br><br>

I'm not a street shooter, but I enjoyed many pictures of the transit

system I've seen in the past. If the ban goes into place, how will

it effect you, if at all?

[andrew_lee2]

None whatsoever. Just don't make a show of it by the NYPD two-way mirrors (disguised on the outside with adverts of Broadway shows) near the shuttle and 1/9 platforms in Times Sq.

[Brad_]

I think people will still get the pix they need to get. The risk isn't bad.

[edmo]

In my opinion the ban is meaningless. What does irk me is the Times bringing it to the attention of the passengers I plan on shooting. I'm having visions of an angry and deranged 'South Park' type mob dragging my lifeless body repeatedly through the doors in between cars. Then dumping it at that rat infested station at 14th street on the 6 line.

 

Note to self: pick up some pepper spray.

[edmo]

Though it was nice waking up this morning and seeing some photography in the paper.

[Tony Rowlett]

In case you didn't know about the "Forgotten New York" site, they have an interesting section on the NYC subway:

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<a href="http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html">http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html</a>

[kipling]

Cool post Tony, too bad it will have to be eliminated because of all the valuable info to

terrorists it provides.

[oleg_volk1]

edmo -- pepper spray isn't legal in NYC, nor would it be a good idea in a confined

space.

[edmo]

<i>edmo -- pepper spray isn't legal in NYC, nor would it be a good idea in a confined space.</i>

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Damn, thanks for the heads up.

[Uhooru]

"Then dumping it at that rat infested station at 14th street on the 6 line. "

 

See. There is always a bright side, as you might run into Grant there lookin for road kill.

[dai_hunter]

edmo . Photo.net Patron, jan 07, 2005; 03:05 p.m.

edmo -- pepper spray isn't legal in NYC, nor would it be a good idea in a confined space.

 

Damn, thanks for the heads up.

 

But oven cleaner IS legal and a lot safer to use in a confined space.

[grant_.]

its only illegal if you get caught

[oleg_volk1]

Oven cleaner is legal and was once advocated by Darrel Mulroy, a Minneapolis self-defense trainer. Use of it would cause serious injury or death for the attacker, unlike pepper spray. Not a bad thing in itself (since you wouldn't use it except to stop a life-threatening attack), just be aware of the likely results.

 

The main issue with picture-taking is the difficulty of staying aware of your surroundings. Having a buddy to watch your back would help.

[chris_waller]

These sorts of bans are imposed by bureaucrats acting on behalf of politicians, both of whom are bereft of any creative impulse. Thus they try to prevent anyone with creative impulses because it reminds them of just what a load of mediocrities they really are. These official blockheads try to tell you they're doing it 'for your own protection' in 'the public interest'. No they are not - they are people with the intellectual compass of earthworms who clutter up this planet and whose continued existences serve no useful purpose.

[john falkenstine]

painting with a broad brush here....I like the subway link.

[cálico]

Every government agency is scrambling to get "with the program" (I abhor this expression) in the war against terrorism... (really, WHAT terrorism? The message of 9/11 was made already!). The truth is that every damned incompetent ninkompoop is trying to have some legislation or rule or law passed for the sake of recognition. Really, what a joke. I see this as yet another plot by subway employees who are never seen doing any kind of work, and are fearful of being photographed (as happened during the 60s, when they were caught going to work to go to sleep, instead of working).

 

The idiots are forgetting one minor detail: that if anything does happen in the subway system, someone with a camera can take photos for the sake of recording events and possible perpetrators!