It's been a while, but the Smith-Ninth Street subway station finally got its tile back.
The fake cardboard station signs that were installed when the newly renovated Gowanus station opened in April 2013 have finally been replaced with genuine tile mosaics, Forgotten New York reported Thursday.
“[T]he artisans have come through and produced brand new versions of the mosaic tiles, which are faithful restorations of the former ones,” Forgotten New York wrote.
The temporary paper signs were a disappointment to straphangers, especially because the MTA spent more than $40 million overhauling the station for nearly two years.
The MTA vowed to return the real tile back in 2013, but the work still hadn't been completed more than a year after the station's reopening.
An MTA spokesman confirmed Thursday that the authentic tile mosaic had indeed returned to the station.
Apparently the fake tile didn't look too different from its real counterpart.
The real mosaics replaced the cardboard versions back in November, the spokesman said, but no one seems to have noticed the switch until now.
