New York Subway Route Indicator Collection

The Design train meets the I Love NY train in this unique necklace or key ring  handcrafted to feature the iconic route indicators that every New York Subway rider is familiar with.  Select your route, necklace (with chain) or key ring. 
Sale price$72.00
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Product Details

This necklace carefully depicts the New York Subway route of your choice in seamless enamel. Select your line from the options below, for example the iconic A line which runs from Inwood to Far Rockaway. Backing is silver plate. Comes with an 18" sterling silver ball chain. Officially licensed by the New York Transit Authority, each necklace comes gift-boxed with a Certificate of Authenticity.

How Tokens & Icons Came to Be

Tokens & Icons was founded in 1991 when Ward Wallau was approved for a license with the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA). This occurred eleven years after he first approached them in 1980 when they filled in the "Y" of the quarter-sized "Y-cut" subway token.

After collecting a hundred of the "Y-cut" tokens, Ward thought they might be a logical way to reincorporate the tokens into New York's daily life and celebrate them as an icon of the city's rich transit history. With his first fifty pairs of authentic New York Subway Tokens, he received positive feedback and thus began his decade-plus endeavor to secure a license.

During the eleven years, Ward had intermittent contact with the NYCTA, and finally secured permissions from the NYCTA and the authentic tokens. He and Bulova Watch were the charter licenses. Bulova chose to replicate the tokens, yet Tokens & Coins (the original name of Tokens & Icons) was able to embark with the long sought after "authentic" token.

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