New York City Arteries Premium Beanies

Arteries reimagines the NYC Subway Map as a human heart, transforming boroughs into chambers and train lines into veins and arteries. The city’s infrastructure becomes its anatomy, illustrating how the subway functions as New York’s lifeblood—pumping people, ideas, labor, and dreams through every corner of the city.

This piece reflects PJ O’Rourke’s deep personal connection to the subway and the MTA, where years of movement, creation, and survival shaped both the artist and the work. What’s usually seen as a map becomes something intimate and vital—a heartbeat you can feel if you’ve ever lived below street level.

The beanie itself is built for daily wear and real winters. Made from 100% recycled polyester, the ribbed knit offers warmth, durability, and structure while giving discarded plastic bottles a second life—mirroring the city’s constant cycle of reuse and reinvention.

Functional, symbolic, and deeply New York—this is infrastructure you wear.

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