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