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Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY - Peter - Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 : goo
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Nostrand Avenue A-train stop, Brooklyn. The tilework and mosaics in this station (and the station as a whole) are decaying. Maintenance looks minimal at best.
These tiled-in grids once held advertisements, pasted inside the tile frames. Apparently, as time passed and other better-traveled subway stations sprung up nearby, there was little demand for advertising in this low-traffic outer-boro subway station. Now, these advertisement billboards have been tiled in. This makes the station easier to hose clean each night, as well as prevents graffiti from showing up in the previously-blacked-out grids left empty by lack of advertisement.
Here at Nostrand Avenue, you can transfer from the A-express train to the C-local, which terminates at Bedford Park Boulevard.
Stairway leading to the A-express platform, from the C-local platform below.
"Gano" tag on the platform's edge... and if I'm not mistaken, thats also a Pet Bird tag inside the O...
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puck: 13th Jun 2005 - 18:15 GMT
i live on nostrand its nice to see someone puttin up some pics of this spotput up some more of nostrand ok
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