Robert Stolarik for The New York Times Some of the first passengers at the reopened Smith-Ninth Street subway station in Brooklyn waited to board the G train Friday morning.The least “sub†station in the city subway system, Smith-Ninth Street in Brooklyn, which soars more than 80 feet above the scrapyards of Gowanus, surged back to life again Friday morning after a $300 million face-lift that left it shuttered for nearly two years.
The renovation includes rehabilitated stairs and platforms and a new metal panel escalator enclosure.
City Room salutes the Smith-Ninth Street station, its commanding views of the Kentile Floors sign, and the gentle roller-coaster thrill it provides as it plunges down toward the mouth of the tunnel at the Carroll Street station.
