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Re: After 73 years, NY Daily News finally discovers BROADAWAY G station tile error |
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Posted by randyo on Wed Feb 11 17:30:47 2009, in response to Re: After 73 years, NY Daily News finally discovers BROADAWAY G station tile error, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 10 20:46:21 2009. Some of the queens IND statins have other oddities some of them related to proposed branches of the Qns Blvd Line to Rockaway from the Winfield Cutoff and Whitpot Jct. Although it may have been removed by now, there was a mosiac sign near the N/E stariway to the N/B platform at 65 St which read, upon extremely careful scrutiny, "Trains to Jamaica and Rockaway" with the words "and Rockaway" painted out. If you looked at the tiles from the appropriate angle you could see the out line of the words "and Rockaway" under the paint. I have heard that some of the other Qns IND stations have similar signs but 65 st was the only one I have seen personally. I don't know about the other stations along the IND Fulton St Line but the original signs at Euclid and Grant read "To Lefferts Ave and the Rockaways" and the word "Ave" was replaced in a different typeface with the word "Blvd." Lefferts Blvd was called Lefferts Ave for many years and that is what the station sign and train destination signs read. Nobody who lived in that neighborhood could tell me when the change from Ave to Blvd was made, but it was probably some time during the construction of the IND connection to the Fulton St El considering how the info signs were initially painted. Lefferts wasn't the only avenue in Queens to be upgraded to a boulevard. Ditmars Blvd , Astoria Blvd and Junction Blvd were all originally avenues and were upgraded for some reason. |
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