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NYC 1960s street signs

Posted by gbs on Fri Oct 21 21:28:56 2016

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The photos in the thread about the vintage buses also showed the old NYC street signs. Notice the black-on-yellow Manhattan signs:



Each borough had its own color scheme (except for Staten Island, which used the Manhattan colors). From top to bottom are Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten Island:



The Brooklyn colors were a holdover from the previous generation of Brooklyn signs, embossed porcelain. No other borough had such signs (but Queens College did):



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