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Re: MTA Demands Slice of the Action at Brooklyn Bagel Shop or Else |
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Posted by BMTLines on Tue Mar 15 19:40:01 2005, in response to Re: MTA Demands Slice of the Action at Brooklyn Bagel Shop or Else, posted by Allan on Tue Mar 15 08:57:41 2005. As for Subway sandwich shops using B.M.T. as part of their menu. The legal (copyrighted) usage of the letters as related to the NYC subway stopped when the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company went out of business in 1940 as the City of NY took over the operations. The same goes for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT). In fact these days (although they keep trying) the MTA doesn't even use IRT, BMT and IND as official designationsThe MTA and its predecessors probably never had a hold on the initials BMT for another reason as well - The BMT never sold its corporate identity or logos to the Board of Transportation. It was a holding company - only the rail assets of its operating subsidiaries (New York Rapid Transit Corp and B&QT) were turned over. The BMT Corporation itself continued to exist until IIRC 1943 when its shareholders voted to dissolve the company. |
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