Jay Street Subway Getting A Paint Job
Yesterday the Brooklyn Paper reported the MTA would spend $250,000 repainting the ceilings of the Jay Street subway entrance between Willoughby and Myrtle. One section closest to Willoughby Street has been painted and last Friday another section was blocked off to prevent the spread of lead dust. The ceiling directly above the subway entrance closer…
Yesterday the Brooklyn Paper reported the MTA would spend $250,000 repainting the ceilings of the Jay Street subway entrance between Willoughby and Myrtle. One section closest to Willoughby Street has been painted and last Friday another section was blocked off to prevent the spread of lead dust. The ceiling directly above the subway entrance closer to Myrtle (pictured) hasn’t got the paint job yet, but everything should be done in two weeks.
MTA Paints Over Its Jay Street Problem [BK Paper]
The Borough Hall station would definitely need a complete rehabilitation, and perhaps a new connection tunnel (with stores) between the Jay St. and Court St. stations. Just like the new Fulton St. Transit Center.
I know it would kill the Brooklyn Paper to report the full news, but the reason why the paint job costs so much is because they have to do significant lead abatement work, and they’re not just painting only that ceiling. I was skeptical and actually bothered to ask someone who could answer.
What I don’t get is why they paint it at all. They should scrape it all down to bare concrete and just leave it. In DC nearly all the subway stations are just plain concrete with the tilework adding color. They look great and easy to pressure wash when they get dirty. I’d much rather have my taxes go to removing all the paint from all the peeling painted concrete surfaces and just leave them bare. All the underground stations that have 100 coats of paint that are uneven, still peeling, just look like crap when if they were just bare gray concrete would look modern and neat. Do it once and forget it. Likewise with all that tilework that keeps falling – especially on the L line in Manhattan. Rip it all down to the concrete behind, pressure wash it, and its done forever.
Does anyone ever ride the JMZ? The Canal and Brooklyn Bridge stations are appalling. Makes me feel like a bad person when I ride the line.
$250,000? It ain’t the Sistine Chapel!
Yes, but when do they tear down the building?
Dripping water and rats do it for me. This encompasses so MANY subway stations that there can be no clear winner. Can’t we genetically engineer rats to eat candy wrappers, rubber gloves and Starbucks mocha-latte to-go cups between the rails? The rats are out there anyhow and do we really care if they go extinct because of a DNA sequencing mistake?
We’d have way less revolting subways.
Think I could get a government grant for a feasibility study?
We have here the beginnings of an interesting contest: subway station in most disgusting state of disrepair. Mysterious dripping substances always tip the scale for me. You?
would never have been left this way in a ‘white neighborhood’ what about that?
(250k is union, scaffolding, way more than paint they have to do to surface of ceiling, other cosmetics, asbestos probably, 30% soft costs, etc – legal, engineering, design)