Smith–Ninth Streets (IND Culver Line)

Infobox NYCS
name = Smith–Ninth Streets

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bg_color = #FF6E1A
bg_color_2 = #9EC437
line = IND Culver Line
service = Culver IND north local
platforms = 2 side platformss
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 local

Smith–Ninth Streets is a station on the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway. It is located over the Gowanus Canal between Ninth and Tenth Streets in Gowanus, 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 to IKEA Plaza in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

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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]