Located in the defunct Myrtle Avenue stop on the Manhattan-bound B and Q lines, just before the train emerges onto the Manhattan Bridge, this giant zoetrope was actually originally installed in 1980. By the time I started riding this particular line, the animation panels had been completely covered in graffiti. I'd noticed the slits - it had occured to me that they resembled a zoetrope, but I didn't realize, until the sequential frames were restored & all the sudden one day I was looking out the subway car window & seeing bouncing balls & rocketships flying by, that it actually IS one!
For more information (and the tiny bit at the start that I missed), check out bbotics.com!
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