NYC Transportation Department Puts Up “Jackie Robinson Parkway” Sign, Spells His Name “Jakie”

This one was initiated by the city Department of Transportation.

Big Apple DOT officials botched a Queens road sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway, misspelling the color-barrier-busting baseball Hall of Famer’s name.

The sign at Myrtle Avenue and Forest Park Drive features a likeness of the Brooklyn Dodgers’ great — atop the words “Jakie Robinson Parkway.”

“It’s embarrassing,” Kira Incantalupo from Glendale told The Post Sunday. “Poor Jackie Robinson.

“That shouldn’t have happened,” Incantalupo 37. “I mean, nobody wants to have that. It’s a memorial for somebody. It should be corrected.”

Quana Martin, 32-year old local resident, considered the typo offensive.

“I just feel it’s a little odd because how do you not know how to spell his name? He’s a well-known figure.”

JP Ward, Queens teen, had a harsher perspective.

“It’s f–king stupid,” The 17-year old said. “I wouldn’t say it’s disrespectful, but it’s definitely stupid.”

Robinson, who was called up by the Dodgers to play in 1947, became Major League Baseball’s first black player. He broke the sport’s centuries-old color barrier.

He was inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, a decade prior to his death.

“This spelling mistake is absurd,” Robert Holden, City Councilman, added that the road-sign typo was corrected on Sunday. You don’t even have one eye on these signs. DOT is a mess.

“This is a slap in the face. Jackie Robinson means a lot to me,” The pol was increased. “I was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan!”

Officials from the New York City DOT were alerted to Sunday’s misplaced road sign and stated that they would fix it. “immediately.”

“That’s just government,” The Post interviewed Aurora Terranova, Queens waitress. “Most of the time s–t just goes wrong because of stupidity or oversightedness.

“That’s really what it comes down to.”

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