In light of recent unsavory news regarding certain New York City train lines (not to name names), it feels like a good time to celebrate one of the things that makes the MTA cool, weird, and exceptional: how local subway stations got their names and how locals pronounce them.
In much the same way that Myrtle encounters Wyckoff, and Flushing briefly joins Knickerbocker, distinct ways of reading, pronouncing, and using Brooklyn’s subway system collide to create a beautiful, often nonsensical transit landscape.
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