MTA: That's Not A Confederate Flag, It's The Symbol Of Times Square! (NY)
BY JEN CARLSON
MAR 24, 2016 2:41 PM
... a toy train sold by the MTA in Grand Central, and elsewhere, inexplicably features a Confederate flag.
MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz .. eventually told PIX11, "It's the same design that's at Times Square representing the Crossroads of the World. It's not a Confederate Flag."
What Ortiz didn't mention is that the tile mosaics he is referring to may have been put up in honor of Adolph S. Ochs, "a Southerner with ‘strong ties to the Confederacy,'" according to Civil War historian Dr. David Jackowe. He declared that the mosaics are an homage to Ochs from the station's architect Squire J. Vickers ...
The NY Post reported on the tiles last summer, alerting commuters to the "tiny Confederate flags" they're walking by each day. Their piece was followed up by a NY Times article, which checked the Post's facts ...
http://gothamist.com/2016/03/24/mta_confederate_flag_subway_station.php
