Even some journalists got a little lost

by Dietsch on February 24, 2004

in NYC news

In his piece “Even Some Subway Riders Who Got the Word Got a Little Lost,” Michael Luo writes of subway riders contending with this week’s service changes. About midway through the piece, he notes:

Confessing complete befuddlement, Ivan Parmar, 21, a real estate agent from Borough Park, Brooklyn, stood at the downtown B and N platform at Herald Square yesterday morning, next to a Metropolitan Transportation Authority poster that read in part, “Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward.”

Indeed. I haven’t fully explored Herald Square since the change, but when I rode through that station on the downtown B train yesterday, it pulled in on the 6th Avenue platforms. (That is, it pulled in on the same platforms as the F, V, and D trains.)

The N, Q, and R use the Broadway platforms. I can’t imagine why there would be a B and N platform anywhere in that station.

[article via Subway Web News; snide comments entirely my own]

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