Smith-9th Streets station on F, G lines set to open next month
The Smith-9th Streets station on the F and G lines – the world’s highest subway station and the rapid-transit gateway to Red Hook –is set to reopen the week of April 22 again after a two-year rehabilitation project.
The rehabilitation began in May 2011, in conjunction with the rebuilding of the crumbling Culver Viaduct, the term for the concrete elevated structure over the Gowanus Canal. Smith-9th Streets, opened in 1933, is one of only two elevated stations built as part of the old IND system, the other one being the neighboring Fourth Avenue-9th Street station.
The station reconstruction work included a new and expanded street-level fare-paying area (many longtime New Yorkers still call this a “token booth”), a new escalator system, new lighting and public address systems, and rehabilitated stairs and platforms.