A 1940s Third Avenue Elevated entrance that looks like a storybook cottage

The pitched roofs, overhanging eaves, curlycue flower petal motifs—is this really the entrance to the Third Avenue Elevated at 28th Street, or is it a house from a fairy tale? Painted by Staats Cotsworth around 1940, this depiction of an ordinary train entrance feels fanciful, almost magical; the city itself is barely seen. Yet it [ ]