- Smith–Ninth Streets (IND Culver Line)
Infobox NYCS
name = Smith–Ninth Streets
bg_color = #FF6E1A
bg_color_2 = #9EC437
line = IND Culver Line
service = Culver IND north local
platforms = 2side platforms s
tracks = 4
borough = Brooklyn
open_date =October 7 ,1933
north_station = Carroll Street
north_line = IND Culver Line
north_service = Culver IND north local
south_station = Fourth Avenue
south_line = IND Culver Line
south_service = Culver IND south localSmith–Ninth Streets is a station on the
IND Culver Line of theNew York City Subway . It is located over theGowanus Canal between Ninth and Tenth Streets inGowanus, Brooklyn .With an elevation of about 90 feet, this station is the highest in the system; this elevation was required by now-defunct navigation regulations for tall-mast shipping on the Gowanus Canal. The bridge rises straight up on 4 towers by cables, but is only occasionally raised. This station and the next station south, Fourth Avenue, were the only original elevated stations built by the
Independent Subway System (IND); all other IND stations were built underground or taken over from original owners.This station is a local station, with two side platforms and four tracks. The express tracks are not in revenue service, but are used south of this station to turn NYCS|G trains back northbound. The MTA has announced that the elevated Culver Viaduct will undergo extensive renovations from 2009–2012, and for twenty-seven months the station will be fully or partially closed. [cite news |first=Charles |last=Maldonado |title=MTA Gives Brooklyn Board Bad News About Smith–9th St. Closure, F-Train Express |url=http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=16802 |work=Brooklyn Daily Eagle |date=
November 16 ,2007 |accessdate=2007-11-27] [cite news |first=Mike |last=McLaughlin |title=Fix for Fourth Avenue station looks F’ing great |url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/46/30_46finggreat.html |work=The Brooklyn Paper |date=November 24 ,2007 |accessdate=2007-11-27]Bus connections
*B75 east to Park Slope and Prospect Park; north to
Downtown Brooklyn
*B77 east to Park Slope; west to Red Hook
*Free shuttle bus toIKEA Plaza inRed Hook, Brooklyn .Gallery
Notes
External links
*NYCS ref|http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?207:2659|IND Crosstown|Smith/9th Street
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/ftrain.htm F Train]
*Station Reporter — [http://www.stationreporter.net/gtrain.htm G Train]
* [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/weirdstations/crazytrain.html Forgotten NY — Crazy Train: NYC's Weirdest Subway Stations]
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