If the MTA won't restore this station, at least replace the missing faux windows!" - anonymous
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Cinderblocked windows at abandoned train station are ugly
If the MTA won't restore this station, at least replace the missing faux windows!" - anonymous
9 comments:
What do you mean restore the station? That's just a decorative wall. There's no platform. No staging area. Just a heavily congested set of rails. Maybe it's time to just take the wall down.
There's none of platform left at Elmhurst station, either, yet there's a push for restoration. Anyway, all that was asked for was painting the windows back. Maybe the local pols could toss $1,000 the MTA's way for that.
Jamaica's local pols would rather toss $1000 to some bogus medical center, like Comrie did a few years ago (actually $5000). Who in this district would ever think of spending money on something that would improve the area in an aesthetic way.
Only a $1,00 using paint from the nearby home depot? Knowing our government, it will cost at least $10,000 to repaint a simple cinderblock faux window.
The track workers used to use that "station" to go up to the tracks - you can see a stairway blocked by a locked gate just inside the fence. Once York started to keep the Union Hall Street gate locked a couple of years ago to control access/egress to/from the main building, it forced the track workers to access the tracks at Parsons or Sutphin.
Should be made more attractive, it actually is a nice piece of NYC past that should be proudly fixed and on display. But NYC doesn't give a shit about it's history anymore everything beautiful will soon be replaced by crap the rate building is going. That's just the mentality in NYC and in America.
Union Hall Street was closed by 1970 and the trackside platforms demolished. The entire thing is faux painted. Better than graffitti.
If you put in windows, that means that they have to be maintained. That also means that they can't be vandalized.
No one suggested putting in windows.
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