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For the price of subway fare, you can tour some of the city’s great underground artworks

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“Contemporary Art Underground: MTA Arts & Design New York” (Monacelli, out now). It highlights more than 100 of the MTA’s newest commissions — mostly constructed with mosaics or larger pieces of metal or glass — added to the transit system from 2015 to 2023.

Wanna check a few out? Grab your Metrocard and take one of these (mostly) subterranean sight-seeing tours mapped out by The Post with the aid of the new book.

Start at the Bedford Avenue L station and check out Marcel Dzama’s “No Less Than Everything Comes Together” (2021).

The piece is inspired, in part, by Walt Whitman’s poem “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” which brought Dzama comfort when he first moved to NYC from Canada and felt lonely on his daily commutes from his apartment on the Lower East Side to his studio in Brooklyn.

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