New Express Train to "Brighten" Beach!

Photo by Jose Piano.

It's a beautiful day outside, but if you need to brighten yours up a bit more why don't you take this express train to Brighten Beach! Though don't expect anything different from what you'd find here.

Previously on this week's signage errors: take the G to Brodaway, and the inconsistent Do Not Lean font. What's fun is that it seems like the more typos people find, the more new mistakes pop up. (And it's also nice not to be on the receiving end of all this nit-picking for ounce.<--Kidding!) If you catch anything awry on your commute, send a photo to: tips(AT)gothamist(DOT)com.

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on February 11, 2009 12:21 PM

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jaycjay

So what? I've seen misspelled street signs and whatever in almost every city in which I've spent a significant amount of time. It happens, and it doesn't matter.

NannyState

I have a boss who can't spell, friends and co-workers who can't spell, and know some very sophisticated rich people...who can't spell. But this? I'm in shock!

Son of Spam

If this were a sign sending midtown tourists to the south bronx, I'd be concerned. But seriously...do we really want the MTA spending money fixing typos that have zero effect on a passenger's trip? Give them a break, there's probably hundreds of thousands of signs in the system, a few are going to have typos.

Oh, right, this is Gothamist, where it's therapeutic to point out other people's mistakes. My bad.

INTJ

There are also multiple signs on the roads in Central Park directing folks to the "Times Square Shuffle" rather than Shuttle.

unemployed

Uh...you do know that the Times Square Shuffle is a real thing? Why would drivers need the Times Square Shuttle?

Anyways, the Shuffle refers to cars traveling south on Seventh Avenue no longer being able stay on Seventh Avenue when they reach Times Square. They must proceed south to Broadway.

Zyskandar A Jaimot

The Sabre Dance by Aram Khachaturian

Trombones sound

frenetic

Reverberating blasts like subway music

Rushing at you

Louder Louder

No breath of fresh air

Not cool

Not hip

Not jazzy

Disonant horns startle

Like the dream where

A dark underground train

Hurtles toward you

While you stand alone

Watching dim light flicker

As a tunnel opens wide

A mouth gaping

Like Munch's painting

Roaring out of the dark

Repeated again and again

And again

The music's scream

Never stopping at your platform.

Champion

Is this real? It totally reminds me of www.thatsnotfake.com

Wza

MTA be dumb yo.

schizofriendly

"Queeens" is just the vernacular spelling of the famous "Queens whine" that Fran Dresher make so famous.

PathToWisdom

These typo will never happen in Chinese.

And these typos are a great way for MTA

to ask for more money from us,

because they won't fix it, and

they don't use the money to fix it.

MTA would use the money for something else,

and next year, it wants the money again to fix it,

and.... you get the picture??