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Re: Historic Subway Tiles With Nothing To Do With Racism Or Even Confederacy to be Removed

Posted by Michael549 on Sat Aug 19 12:27:29 2017, in response to Re: Historic Subway Tiles With Nothing To Do With Racism Or Even Confederacy to be Removed, posted by Union Tpke on Fri Aug 18 19:15:01 2017.

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There is a very strong argument for refurbishing and repairing subway stations which has at times included the removal of station wall tiles, as well as the enhancement of such tiles. This issue has been talked about on this forum before.

When the Broadway Junction station - that used to consist of three separate stations - Eastern Parkway (QJ, J, K, etc.), Broadway Junction (L or LL), and Broadway East New York (A, C and distant past E) - were all combined into one interconnected complex - Broadway Junction. This meant that the tiles along the A and C platforms were changed.

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?938

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?74724

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?145943

The Wall Street station on the #4 and #5 lines on Broadway has gone through as least three re-tilings - from the original brown and white tile work similar for stations built in 1905, to and all blue tile change-over, and later a return to the brown & white tile work.

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?139148

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?115307

Some stations like Bleecker Street on the #6 have had extensions where the effort was made to reproduce the tile-work that existed prior to the expansion of the station.

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?143313

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136172

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?133794

At 42nd Street Times Square - I very much question the association of the Confederacy to the Longacre Square, the building of the New York Times newspaper office building, and the construction of the 1920's era @1, @2 and #3 Times Square local-express station, and the tile work included within the station.

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?127821

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?57479

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?47556

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?14791

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?248

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?8174

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?7914

It is indeed true that several subway stations have been renovated, and their original tile work has been lost to history. The Bowling Green station (#4 and #5) and the 49th Street station (N, R & W) are two examples of such stations.

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?130851

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2651

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?6969

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?9

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?145610

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24392

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2045

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2024

Of course any mention of changes to subway tiles has to include the following:

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?102250

Every subway fan who have EARNED their stripes KNOWS about this station and the tile work!

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?102249

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?97886

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?891

http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?133266

Enjoy, Mike

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