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July 30, 2012
Farewell Pacific St
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With the Barclays Center in Brooklyn opening soon, the stadium sponsor went ahead and purchased naming rights for the subway station adjacent to it. Actually, they announced this awhile back, but only recently are the signs in the station slowly beginning to show up and subway maps edited.
So what was once known as the "Atlantic Ave-Pacific St" station will now be called the "Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center" station. Pacific St now joins the list of street names dropped off from station names like Lawrence St (now Jay St-Metrotech), Ely Ave (now Court Sq-23 St) and Newkirk Ave (now Newkirk Plaza... still has "Newkirk" in it though!).
NoLandGrab: Technically, Forest City Ratner purchased the naming rights to the station. But regardless, we're still calling it Atlantic Ave-Pacific St.
Posted by eric at July 30, 2012 11:47 AM