7 UWS Train Stations Get Exhibit Honoring MTA Lives Lost To COVID

Upper West Side NY

26 January, 2021

1:05 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A total of seven train stations on the Upper West Side recently got a new art installation honoring the Metropolitan Transit Authority workers that have lost their lives to the COVID-19 pandemic. The installation is built with pictures shared by family members of the fallen MTA workers. It is titled, "Travels Far: A Memorial Honoring Our Colleagues Lost to COVID-19" — and is based around a poem by Tracy K. Smith, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, commissioned specifically for this project. Here are the Upper West Side train stations with the digital art installation. 59th Street: 1 train66th Street: 1 train79th Street: 1 train86th Street: 1 train103rd Street: 1 train59th Street: A, B, C, D trains103rd Street: B, C trains The seven Upper West Side train stations are among 107 stations across New York City to get a temporary digital screen with an eight-minute video dedicated to the 136 MTA employees who have died of the virus since the onset of the pandemic. The video will play twice consecutively three times a day, at 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 8:30 p.m., from this Monday through Sunday. "COVID-19 has been a devastating scourge on our entire country and, tragically, that includes the MTA's workforce," said MTA Chairman and CEO Patrick Foye, in a news release. "We quickly made sure that those families who lost an MTA worker to COVID were taken care of financially, but the launch of today's memorial is aimed at personalizing the legacies of those who died during the pandemic." You can check out a list of all the New York City train stations that the art memorial has been installed in on the MTA website.