For some, the choice is easy.

I can never quiiiite get a good enough picture of this--mostly because I end up looking like the crazy camera lady spending way too much time in the suspiciously smelly subway-station elevator--but it's one of my favorite details in all of NYC subway-dom.

It's in Brooklyn's Borough Hall station in an elevator that runs between the uptown and downtown platforms for the 2 and 3 train lines. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else in the city.

I just adore how two seemingly innocent elevator buttons quickly simplify the eternal "Manhattan vs. Brooklyn" debate. I mean, in this case, you gotta make it quick. And you better be decisive. Because brother, the train is leaving the station. And it doesn't care whether you're on it or not.

Ya'll know which button lights me up. But which one do you push?

Comments

[Jamie]

Excellent! A couple stops near us have these elevators but none give me a dual-borough option. Best I've found is this handy switch. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacklattie/4140238846/

[mdashing]

Jamie--totally dig that. Where did you find it?

[Kristin Appenbrink]

I love both of those photos! Jamie, when I worked at J.Crew we had a switch like that in most of our dressing rooms so you could see what your outfit would look like in different light. Not sure if that's where you took the photo, but it's awesome.

[susan]

I like the way you think.

[leah]

That's totally cool. You should just suck it up and own the "crazy camera lady" persona one day and get a really super nice photo of it and then sell it ... I've no doubt it would be a hit!

[mdashing]

I know. I need to just accept that I sort of am already the crazy camera lady...

[Jamie]

I took it a couple years ago in a dressing room. Maybe at J.Crew? So you can see how your ensemble looks night or day. Struck me as amusing.

[Jamie]

Yep, there we have it. Must have been in J.Crew.