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<\/a><\/p>\nBut beneath the museum at the grimy subway stop that takes you directly in front of the Beaux Arts building (which took 29 years to finally complete in 1926<\/a>) are intentionally placed relics of another kind.<\/p>\n Inside the station is an underground mini-museum of salvaged relics\u2014from corbels to rosettes to human faces with eyes that follow you as you move toward the platform\u2014taken out of the rubble of demolished New York City buildings.<\/p>\n These 78 artifacts of terra cotta and stone are mounted on station walls with the care and precision of the mounted paintings inside the Museum\u2019s halls and rooms.<\/p>\n What are they doing here, besides giving passengers a reason to hang out and experience art underground?<\/p>\n The relics come from the Brooklyn Museum\u2019s longtime collection of ornamental architecture, and they were donated as part of the MTA\u2019s Arts and Design program, which brings art installations to city subway stations.<\/p>\n \u201cNew mosaic designs were added to frame the objects and make connections with the architecture of the station,\u201d states the MTA<\/a> on a web page explaining the backstory of this underground exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n