“Brooklyn, New Morning” is an expansive work that consists of 75 unique glass panels arranged into a series throughout the complex and a seven-by-ten-foot glass mosaic mural wall. Al Loving said the work has a "spirit of interdependence and interconnection as an important aspect of the American experience," reflecting that this large station serves as a crossroads. Working with natural light, he achieves a lively and engaging atmosphere, and the colored light and flowing forms create a sense of optimism and well-being. 

Born in Detroit, Al Loving (1935-2005) earned an MFA in painting at the University of Michigan before relocating to New York City. Only one year after moving, Loving became the first African American to have a one-person show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A staunch abstractionist, Loving’s early works followed a strict code of simple geometric shapes, often incorporating hexagonal or cubic modules to his canvases. Later in his career, Loving became disenchanted with his hard-edged style, and he dispensed with notions of centralized composition. Loving began to take inspiration from vernacular textile traditions. Drawing on childhood memories of his mother and grandmother quilting, Loving went on to quilt stained strips of canvas together into free-form compositions. He would combine hundreds of pieces of cut and torn canvas or paper into abundant, overlapping patterns and shapes, with rich arrays of colors in irregular, spiraling forms. In addition to a prolific exhibition history, Loving’s work is featured in the collections of major museums around the country.