One thing I’ve noticed while walking around Bayonne, Hoboken and Jersey City (I haven’t attempted Newark, Union City, Weehawken etc. yet) is that while you do see modern green and white street signs, in many places the porcelain and metal signs of the 1940s and 1950s have been allowed to remain in place…because they do the job just as well as they ever did. In NYC, by contrast, there’s an almost obsessive desire by the Department of Transportation to relentlessly ferret out nonstandard signs and eliminate them.
Here at Willow and 9th are two signs from what I presume are two different eras, one blue and white, the other white and black.
1/17/13