Daily What?! Is This the Smallest Door in the NYC Subway?

This adorable door in the 60th Street and Broadway subway entrance to Columbus Circle has been making us smile for a while now. Could it be the smallest door in the NYC subway system? When we posted the image to Instagram yesterday, user @mrthepete asked, “Is there a miniature Starbucks in there?”

Of course this leads to more questions. Why is the Station Department door so small? Where does the phone number lead us? In fact, the subway system is full of doors with different mysterious phone numbers. As intrepid explorers, we decided to call all of them yesterday. Read the adventure here.

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