David Bowie: The Subway Station

David Bowie at the Broadway-Lafayette Subway Station

New York's in love—with David Bowie. The late iconic artist spent over 20 years living in SoHo, and on Tuesday the MTA announced that Bowie was back in the neighborhood.

Almost immediately, scores of New Yorkers swarmed those stations for the limited-edition cards, and many continued to line up Friday afternoon.

The station was filled with images of Bowie at different stages of his career: prints of the artist on stage in royal blue, or pale and serious with his finger clasped together. The installation was a collaboration between Spotify and the Brooklyn Museum, in honor of the museum’s “David Bowie Is” exhibit.

The crowds who line up for the limited-edition MetroCards were a combination of Bowie devotees and hustlers decked out in Supreme gear looking to make a buck off the cards, which were being resold online for nearly $200 each.

Waiting in line, Brookie Judge, with electric-blue hair, said she traveled across the country to see the exhibit and buy the collectible cards.

“I don’t know that I would do this for anybody else,” she said. Though she thought of herself as a big U2 fan, she never bought that band's commemorative iPod. Judge said she didn't know what made Bowie different, except that he’s always been a part of her life.

“He was a weird queer kid when no one else was a weird queer kid,” she said. “That’s respectable.”

She planned to add the MetroCards to her David Bowie shrine, which she insisted is only a little bit crazy and modest in size: just a few photos, buttons, some pieces of art and a battery-operated tea light. “So I didn’t go full Catholic on it,” she laughed.

Further back in the line stood a fashion designer from Miami. She was wearing a red satin jumpsuit, and a black felt beret. She said she’d been in the city nine months, and worshiped all of David Bowie’s costumes, but his Harlequin mime outfit from “Ashes to Ashes” most of all.

“Everything he wore was unique,” she said. “Even if it was a pair of trousers, it would be oversized at the waist.”

In high school she performed a scene from “The Runaways” in which Cherie Curie sings as David Bowie in red spandex and a golden jacket. On Friday she had the red pants, and was trying to grow her hair out into a Bowie-style mullet.

“It’s been in the process for years, but I’m just so impulsive I keep shaving my head,” she said. “It’s a baby mullet right now.”