MTA Gives Brooklyn Board Bad News About Smith-9th St. Closure, F-Train Express (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)NYCT officials also said that the F Train will not be getting express service until at least 2012, when the Culver Viaduct rehabilitation will be complete. The severely deteriorated Culver Viaduct is the short elevated stretch that carries the otherwise-underground F and G trains over the Gowanus Canal.
“There will be no impediment to implementing the F express once the viaduct is complete,” said NYCT spokesperson Lois Fendler. “We’re looking at it, but we’re nowhere near finishing budgets or anything.”
“There will be no impediment to implementing the F express once the viaduct is complete,” said NYCT spokesperson Lois Fendler. “We’re looking at it, but we’re nowhere near finishing budgets or anything.”
Fix for Fourth Avenue station looks F’ing great (The Brooklyn Paper)
The G train will be permanently extended to Church Avenue and the dour Fourth Avenue station will get a complete overhaul as part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $250-million repair of elevated portion of the tracks between Carroll Gardens and Park Slope.
To begin with, the G train, which runs along the same tracks as the F between Bergen Street and Smith-Ninth Street, will be permanently extended to Church Avenue. Originally, the MTA said the line would add stops at Fourth Avenue, Seventh Avenue, 15th Street, Fort Hamilton Parkway and Church Avenue only until the repair work to the viaduct was completed in 2012.
But now the agency says that the direct underground link between Greenpoint and Kensington — by way of Park Slope —will be permanent.
But now the agency says that the direct underground link between Greenpoint and Kensington — by way of Park Slope —will be permanent.
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So instead of the F train stitting on the tracks being stuck behind the G train between Smith/9th and Bergen, it will be delayed for five more stops. Whoopeee! (Seriously, getting off at Smith/9th to transfer to a train on the same track? Not that difficult.)
The planned renovations at the 4th Ave stop sound promising, although they're still years away. I transfer there each weekday and the station is most definitely in need of repair.
HI EVERYBODY!
My name's Viola. I'm a 23 years old italian student. I'm taking part in an exchange program at Baruch College which is in Manhattan BUT I decided to fin accomodation in Brooklyn (cheaper and safer). I will stay at University Place. Can anybody tell me if it was a good choice?
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Viola from Italy
Hi Viola,
University Place is a street in Manhattan. I'm not sure what it is named that in Brooklyn - is it a hotel or student residence? Were you advised for living quarters by Baruch?
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