AFTER 25 years of Forgotten New York…official on March 26th…I’ve begun to take note of IND signage from the 1930s. Not the large identification tablets seen on the station platforms, but the directional signs found in the mezzanines, some of which are as long as football fields. After a recent walk down Junction Boulevard, I found this one in the Woodhaven Boulevard-Slattery Plaza station. As you can see, the sign, made of hundreds if not thousands of blue and white mosaic pieces, echoes the cornflower blue color of the platform signs.
The type font, which to my knowledge isn’t named, is a smaller version of the font employed on those platform signs. Since they’re tiled into the wall, they would. be difficult to remove by the MTA; however, at times the MTA will install standard black and white metal signs with the same information alongside the older signs, which at times seems to me to be a spiteful assertion of who’s in charge down there these days.
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3/30/24