Union Street Ads it Up
The perpetually cash-strapped MTA is apparently going to be swelling its coffers by allowing advertisers to target straphangers who use the Union Street subway station. Over the past couple days we’ve seen workers putting up frames at the formerly ad-free station. Though we’ve been fans of Union Street’s sparse look, we’re going to take solace…
The perpetually cash-strapped MTA is apparently going to be swelling its coffers by allowing advertisers to target straphangers who use the Union Street subway station. Over the past couple days we’ve seen workers putting up frames at the formerly ad-free station. Though we’ve been fans of Union Street’s sparse look, we’re going to take solace in the fact that the Gowanus/Park Slope R stop is not likely to be sponsored by Mickey & Co. any time soon. Anyone noticed ads being introduced to other Brooklyn stations? GMAP
“That’s a facetious argument. This website is free. We pay to ride the subway and should not have to have more ads thrust in front of us.”
So I take it you only read free newspapers and magazines, eschewing the capitalist dogs at papers like the Times because they dare to put advertising in something you pay for.
And I guess you avoid most non-broadcast television since you are paying for that and yet much of it has advertisements.
Stopped going to the movies since they show previews before the movies you’ve paid for?
Never take a taxi? How dare they put signs on top of those things that cost money?!?
The list goes on and on. Advertising supplements the income from fees for many things; it doesn’t have to completely replace them.
4:28,
Perhaps you should raise your standards.
2:04 and 2:07,
Maybe you should both go have a nice drink and dinner somewhere tonight, and start taking car services and cabs everywhere if the subway bugs you that much.
Have a nice day.
The 9th st. R & M station is really dirty simply because THE MTA NEVER CLEANS IT. The tracks flood because they don’t remove the garbage that blocks the drains.
Th ads will do nothing to spruce up the space. We will simply have a filthy station with ads. Woohoo.
“It also means one other very notable thing: People with money are moving into the neighborhoods that these stations are servicing.”
If that were true, then the 7th Avenue Station should be a palace, instead of the nasty crap-hole that it is.
9th st. R & M station is really dirty – perhaps because there’s a busy transfer to the F and also maybe because the incoming manhattan-bound (and outgoing brooklyn-bound) tracks are on a serious incline descending into the station. That would explain the water that often collects there. Also, there is no attendant kiosk on the Brooklyn-bound R platform at 9th st.
I actually like seeing these ads go up – these stations, along with prospect ave, 25th st., etc., have been disheveled for years so maybe this means that advertisers will help prod the MTA to spruce up their look a little bit.
It also means one other very notable thing: People with money are moving into the neighborhoods that these stations are servicing.
Same frames have been installed at the Ninth St. station one stop up from Union. Already noticed tagging activity.
Ads, ads, everywhere an ad…
That’s a facetious argument. This website is free. We pay to ride the subway and should not have to have more ads thrust in front of us. Do they really keep the fares down? Really? Any evidence to back that assertion?