New York City Arteries Heavyweight Long Sleeved Tee

New York City Arteries is a best-selling, thought-provoking design by PJ O’Rourke that reimagines the NYC Subway Map as a human heart. The five boroughs become chambers; subway lines transform into veins & arteries; mapping the city’s lifeblood in a single image.

Inspired by years spent moving, creating, & surviving underground, the piece reflects PJ’s deep connection to the MTA. Early in his career, he sold art at the Union Square subway station; it was there that this design first took shape. What’s usually a map becomes something intimate & vital; a heartbeat you recognize if you’ve ever lived below street level.

Printed front & back in crisp single-color linework, the graphic reads like an X-ray of the city’s circulation. Worn at Queensboro Plaza on a windy day; trains rattling overhead, platforms buzzing, & the river air cutting through; the piece feels exactly where it belongs.

This isn’t decoration.

It’s infrastructure you wear.

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