You didn't understand what it meant. The clause beginning with "although" explains that the reference is wrong.

Why do some people insist on their right to be wrong? Most of us probably grew up thinking that cobblestones and Belgian Blocks (stetts) were the same until the difference was explained to us. Now we use the correct terms. Cobblestones are much more uncomfortable to walk on.

Incorrectly.

They're incorrectly called cobblestones. OP is wrong.

They're not.

"Setts are often referred to as "cobblestones", although a sett is distinct from a cobblestone in that it is quarried or worked to a regular shape, whereas the latter is generally a small, naturally-rounded rock. Setts are usually made of granite."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sett_(paving)

Me too.

>I’m still angry Franken resigned.

I am too.

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>For some reason this is less than I expected for the building

Me too.

>It's unacceptable

Yes.

It's a stupid video.

You do understand that the N, Q, and R have some stops in common but then diverge? You'd better know which one you need.

The only way to get lost on the Red Line or the Orange Line in Boston is to take it in the wrong direction. They are single lines. There are multiple ways to get lost in NYC if you have no more info about the subway line than the color.

People who are New Yorkers and live in Manhattan use the numbers and letters. I live well above Midtown. If someone had to go to South Ferry, I'd never say, "Hop on the red line.: I'd tell them to take the No. 1 Local to the first express stop, and then to take the 2 or 3 Express to Chambers Street and then to switch back to the No. 1. If you took the No. 1 all the way down the trip would take an hour. If you took only the 2 or the 3 you'd have an unnecessary walk to South Ferry, assuming you knew which stop to get off at before you landed in Brooklyn.

The colors are not without meaning: for example, silver gray represents a shuttle line. The NYC subway has more than one shuttle. I'm not sure they're being used right now, but the shape of a symbol also matters. The default shield shape is a circle but a diagonal indicates a different route. They all convey info but as you said, they're imprecise.

In Boston, colors are used. If you say the Red Line or the Orange Line, first, that's what they're officially called, but there's also no chance of confusion, they're one line with a couple of short spurs.

I grew up in an Outerborough, although my parents were raised in Manhattan and I visited often. We always used the numbers or sometimes the old name of the train company, like the IRT. In the musical Hair, one song goes:

LBJ took the IRT/And found the youth of America/ on LSD.

LBJ didn't take the Red Line because that doesn't exist in New York City.

Thank you.

Why would you insist on your right to use incorrect terminology in a place you don't know? I don't. That's the weird hill.

I'm a native New Yorker.

Yes, but we don't refer to the lines by their colors. That's done in Boston and maybe another city.

That's not the issue. You use the terms used by the place you're living or visiting. Would you call the Underground in London the Métro?

If you think they do, you're either not observant or you don't hang out with New Yorkers.

That's for maps. We don't call our lines by the colors.

NYC is not Boston. We don't use colors. We use numbers and letters for our subway lines.

They'll know you're not from NYC and haven't bothered to learn what we call the lines on the subway system.

>union square uptown green line train

The 4, 5, and 6. We don't have a "green line."