Images of displaced, virtual landscapes can form the backdrop for real and emerging urban landscapes full of promise. Subway cars mercilessly move back and forth while commuters trace their daily itineraries across large, smooth platforms and rise through levels that contribute to the making of a particular urban dynamic. This piece of urban infrastructure, despite its cost and contentious raison d'être, represents a belief in the future of our city. Nonetheless, the itinerary below this exurban landscape has been rendered neutral, despite its infrastructure of promise.