A sticker indicating the Verizon phone company has sufficiently peeled away on the mezzanine of the LIRR/#7 train complex in Woodside to permit view of its predecessor, Bell Atlantic, a company formed in 1984 after the Bell monopoly was sundered by the federal government and fractured into several different companies.
The Bell Telephone Company was formed in 1877 and named for the first patentee of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell.
When Bell Atlantic merged with GTE in 2000, it adopted the moniker Verizon, a portmanteau of the Latin “Veritas” (“Truth”) and horizon.
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