 Samm Kunce's massive glass, stone, and marble mosaic fills the 42nd St station's main corridor. The Main Library in Bryant Park is right above the station, and Kunce chose to work a literary thread into the piece, which incorporates quotations from writers as diverse as James Joyce and Carl Jung. An MTA Arts for Transit project. The artwork is located in the transfer passageway and consists of glass mosaic and etched granite depicting roots of trees with a quotation from Jung: "Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose."

Passageway, 42nd St - Bryant Park station

Under Bryant Park

 Step below grade at the subway to check out the Arts for Transit work by Sam Kunce -Under Bryant Park' from 2002. According to the Arts for Transit website: -The artist based the project on the idea of systems. In her words, 'People travel the subway system, water and other utility services are delivered by pipes, and plants and trees that provide grace and softness against the city's sharper edges find their way to water and nutrients underground through a system of roots. In a similar way, literature is shared by systems of learning and lending, and many animals inhabit systems of burrows just as humans systematically divide portions of larger habitats above ground." 