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Re: All Lettered Tiles At B'way-Nassau (IND) Replaced and Jay St/Metrotech |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Sat Sep 4 06:42:24 2010, in response to Re: All Lettered Tiles At B'way-Nassau (IND) Replaced and Jay St/Metrotech, posted by Ed Alfonsin on Fri Sep 3 22:12:44 2010. I dont agree with that, the 212 was given to Manhattan as that is where the most 212 numbers were. And "Borough Hall" is closer to the IRT stations that bare it's name. The only reason Jay St got that name to begin with was because the IND wanted a borough hall station, and that was the closest one to it when they were building the IND. The BRT and IRT were still private companies at the time, and the city wanted a Boro Hall station. it has nothing to do with anyone favoring "Manhattan" over Brooklyn...and in any event, when the IND was built and the Jay St-Boro Hall station named, Brooklyn was long a part of NYC already anyway anyway, and is irrelevant to Brooklyn's "independence" even back then....it wasn't "City Hall" anymore after all...This all said, I will miss the name "Jay St-Boro Hall"....that was my station for 3 years.....and old habits die hard. I will continue to call it "Jay St Boro Hall", just as I still call 71 Ave-Forest Hills, "Continental Ave" and Broadway-East New York..... |
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