As I have said recently I have been fascinated with the smaller directional signage found in IND stations built mostly in the 1930s. At the Greenpoint Avenue stop in Brooklyn, it’s amazing how much “green” there is purely by coincidence. First and foremost is the station name and neighborhood, Greenpoint. Second is that the station ID tablets and signage on the IND Crosstown Line, today’s G train, built in 1933 and 1937, are rendered in two shades of green. Third, in the 1970s, the Metropolitan Transit Authority adopted green as the bullet color of the G train; green is the only bullet color the MTA uses twice, Kelly green for the Lexington Avenue lines (4, 5, 6) and lighter green for the G.
G train to Long Island City and Jamaica? The furthest east the G train ever got is Continental/71st Avenue in Forest Hills, on the Queens Boulevard Line. And it hasn’t regularly visited there since the M was routed onto Queens Boulevard in 2010.
However: you could transfer to E and F trains at Queens Plaza, Roosevelt and Continental,, which did reach Jamaica. The E has gone to Parsons Boulevard in the heart of Jamaica since 1989 in one of the subways’ more recent extensions.
So, the G to Jamaica? Sort of…
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7/17/24
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You said green was the only bullet color with multiple shades is not true, Grey also does so, the L is light slate Grey whiel all the S Shuttles are dark charcoal grey
The G did go to Jamaica, it just took over 50 years for it to happen. In the 1990s the G was extended from it’s then terminus of 71st Av to 179th St-Jamaica during the overnight hours (12 Midnight to 6:30 AM daily) to provide service during the hours the R train was cut back and operated between 36th St-4th Av and 95th St-4th Av.
1997 subway map
https://www.reddit.com/r/nycrail/comments/uo4ds9/throwback_thursday_1990s_subway_map_glad_we/#lightbox (note don’t look at the map itself but rather at the service information grid in the last column for the G)