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I think it's called Business Commercial. The font costs like 200 bucks, but Arial is the closest font to it

According to the New York Times' recently published obit for Bob Noorda, the designer of the NYC Subway system signage, the type is internal to the system, Standard Medium, but was originally designed by Mr. Noorda using Helvetica.

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