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About the Sitenycsubway.org is a site dedicated to the history of the New York City Subway system, including photos, maps, and documents. We don't attempt to keep track of up to the minute, accurate information about fares, schedules, service outages, etc. That kind of information is best left to official transit agencies, e.g. www.mta.info. The site is maintained and managed by David Pirmann. You can use the feedback form to contact me. Contribute!www.nycsubway.org needs your help! The web site needs volunteers to continue to add new items to the site. Join a group of people who have given their time and talent to devloping content for the largest NYC Subway web site around. You don't need to be proficient in web page coding or photo scanning or other technical aspects of developing web pages. I can do all that for you. What is most needed is development of new content, and that's where you come in to the picture. If you want to volunteer, please visit the Feedback Form and let us know! nycsubway.org wouldn't be what it is today without the valuable contributions and hard work of many people. There is a long list of major contributors without whom the site would not be nearly as interesting! There are over 600 photographers represented on the site. The top 20 photographers. To submit photos follow these simple guidelines: (1) Use the Feedback Form to initiate contact with the webmaster. (2) Photos should be in JPG format, in the size range of 640x480 to 1024x768 (anything larger will be scaled down before posting). (3) The image file names are not important, but you should prepare a listing matching the image filename to its important data, such as location, date, car type and number, etc. so that the captions can be prepared. (4) After hearing back from the webmaster, email the photos as single attachments or a zip file. (If you've contributed before you can skip the feedback form and go right to the emailing.) For cities that are not represented on the site, contributed photos may be held aside until some introductory or explanatory text describing the transit in that city can be prepared. If you'd like to work on that, to go along with your photos, use the Feedback Form to talk to the webmaster about it. History of the SiteThe first pages went up around August 1995. The first sections were photo essays about a New York Transit Museum tour of City Hall Station and a ride on their BMT D-Type "Nostalgia Train". These photo essays were inspired by seeing some other rail-related travelogues and photos on the then-infant World Wide Web. The site is funded using the Google Adwords ads that are run on the various pages of the site. In addition, items in the book and video bibliography are linked to Amazon, and if you purchase something by clicking thru from this site, Amazon contributes a small percentage back to us. We don't sell direct advertising but if you are interested in that, you can "target" nycsubway.org in Google Adwords. Visits to the site are anonymously tracked for statistical purposes using Google Analytics. This program has helped me focus the advertising to only where it is most rewarding. Prior to July 2001, the site ran on a variety of hand-me-down Sun hardware, including a Sparc 1+, a Sparc IPX, and a Sparc 20. From July 2001 to April 2002, the site ran on two servers, a Dell Poweredge 350 running RedHat Linux, and a dual processor Sun Sparcstation 20, running Solaris 8. In April 2002, the Dell server crashed and was replaced with a dual processor Sun Ultra 2. In May 2002 the database was converted from mSQL 2.x to MySQL. The site is now located on a dedicated pair of Athlon 2200 machines running Linux, leased from a hosting facility. Tools that I like to use to support the site are: xv, ImageMagick, gimp, and xpaint (for image manipulation), apache, perl, and mod_perl (web server and scripting language), and MySQL (database). You can see a list of places nycsubway.org has been mentioned in the press. DisclaimerDISCLAIMER: www.nycsubway.org is not sponsored by, approved by, or affiliated with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit or any other transit agency. None of the pages contained on the www.nycsubway.org site are provided by transit agencies and are not to be considered official, unless specifically indicated. The use of the name www.nycsubway.org is not meant to cause confusion in this regard. The official New York City Transit web page is at http://www.mta.info/. Entire original contents Copyright © 1995-2004 New York City Subway Resources. Contributed items are copyright © their respective creators. No part of this work may be copied or republished in electronic or printed form without prior approval of the respective copyright holder. Send feedback using the Feedback Form for details.
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