After a delay of few centuries months, the MTA will reopen the Smith/9th Sts. F/G subway stop next Friday, April 26 at 10:30 a.m., agency spokesman Kevin Ortiz just announced via Twitter. The station closed in June of 2011 and was supposed to reopen mid-2012. But delays due to both the normal course of work and Superstorm Sandy pushed the opening back into 2013. Now, Red Hook and Carroll Gardens residents and business will get their subway station back.
I’ll have more details on the reopening as they become available, but it seems likely that the work isn’t completed even as the station is ready for revenue service. Two weeks ago, I snapped a photo behind the construction fence of the entrance, and much work remained. Still, the MTA vowed to reopen the station before May Day, and they’ll finally meet a Culver Viaduct project deadline, albeit one pushed back countless times.
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They have had a ton of workers there every day including weekends for the past week or so. I hope that doesn’t mean additional overtime is being paid to meet the latest deadline.
Just in time for the Red Hook ballfields opening weekend.
Finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After two years the red hook station is opening!!!!!!!!!!!!”!!!””!!!!!!!!!”!! I wonder what took so long!!!!!???
They had to work around all the excess exclamation marks getting in the way.
The contractor screw up the project.
What? They didn’t even reinstall the original IND tile! They’re not going to put it back before the reopening?