For more than a thousand years now, the MTA has allowed companies to purchase advertising posters, which hang on the walls of the subway stations. The companies and the products they sell, however, are fleeting and irrelevant in comparison to the masterful accumulation of paint and glue underneath. Recent surveys have shown that modern subway riders retain none of the marketing information but remember only the grand masterpieces offered to us by the city, with its helpful assistants time and neglect.
