Crosstown Local Photo Du Jour: Spellbound

March 17, 2010 by missheather
Filed under: 11206, 11211, Crosstown Local, Subway, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn

This moment of excellence has been brought to you courtesy of the Queens-bound platform of the G train at Broadway. Given that the Metropolitan Transit Authority cannot master simple bookkeeping, I suppose it should come as no surprise they cannot spell either.*

Miss Heather

*To clarify/reiterate; this tile work is new. Or is it? Apparently this is a source of considerable debate. Richard writes:

Forgotten-NY.com claims this has been there since 1937: But there’s some debate about it:

http://gothamist.com/2009/02/09/subway_typo.php

Apparently the MTA made a makeshift taped-on correction that has disappeared.

Only the best for the Crosstown Local.