For four decades, Philip Ashforth Coppola has meticulously documented the art of the New York City subway in a series of extraordinary drawings, detailing the terracotta mosaics, faience, and tile patterns that millions of riders pass by every day. Along with Coppola's intricate ink drawings are anecdotes he assembled through painstaking research to discover the names behind the artisanship of what is rightly called New York's largest public art work. In the preface, Jonathan Lethem recognizes a kindred spirit in this chronicler of forgotten urban beauty.