Extra-large Department of Transportation street signs appear at intervals along fast and furious Kings Highway in East Flatbush. I can’t really say, but I imagine the DOT devised this method to help fast-moving cars identify cross streets on Kings Highway, where the stoplights are synchronized to make it for all intents and purposes a surface arterial (much like Philly’s Roosevelt Boulevard).
About 10 years ago, larger street signs started appearing on stoplight mastarms, in the fashion of Los Angeles and other large cities around the country.
These “economy size” signs appear nowhere else in the five boroughs, as far as I know.
5/13/15