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Re: The IND's 1st 13 Months (1932-1933) [A Timeline] |
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Posted by gbs on Mon Oct 7 21:50:37 2013, in response to Re: The IND's 1st 13 Months (1932-1933) [A Timeline], posted by MainR3664 on Mon Oct 7 07:56:41 2013. It seems that, after some near hits and some terrible misses, they've learned how to beautifully replicate the original IND-style white-on-black tiles. The new ones at Jay St (A,C,F) are absolutely true (if I hadn't seen them covering up the old ones, I would have sworn they removed them and reused them); the "Junction" at Broadway-Junction (A,C) is almost right; Chambers St (A,C) is pretty bad; and "To Street & Transfer" at Metropolitan Av (G) is bad beyond words: It may be hard to see in this photo, but the letters are uneven, blurry, and of very poor quality. Compare the S above with the original,graceful IND S below:  Interestingly, at Fulton St (A,C), when they first started installing the new Fulton tiles, on the Brooklyn-bound side, they installed "FULTON ST" with a white(!) tile between the words, thoroughly un-IND and absolutely ugly. When they then did the uptown side, they put only "FULTON", then they went back to the other side and removed the "ST"s. |
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