"smith-9th"

WHY show this example of tiled signage at the IND Smith-9th Street station, serving F and G trains? Well, they’re placed in sort of unique circumstances. The Independent Subway was…

Two years ago [2013], when I checked out the rebuilt Smith-9th Street station serving the F and G trains, I was disappointed to see that the exterior identifying station plaques…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: Red Hook Louis Valentino Park and Pier are named for a hero fireman who spent his early years in Red Hook and Carroll Gardens. Valentino…

I have been in Red Hook before … Transoms of Red Hook, July 2004 Coffey and a Donut, October 2008 Silent Hook, June 2012 and plenty more, plus a ForgottenTour…

THE only elevated section of the Independent Subway, built by the City of New York in the 1930s to compete with the privately-run IRT and BMT systems, ascends on a…

On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue in the…

A foray into what was formerly called “South Brooklyn” when it was actually the southern end of the City of Brooklyn before it absorbed the rest of Kings County and…

I have a continuing fascination with the NYC subways iconography and signage (and indeed, that of other transit systems in other towns as well) so I was happy to see…

I’ve explored the 4th Avenue IND station at 9th Street in Park Slope before for Forgotten New York, way back in 1999 when the station was almost in ruins. Since…

I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…

Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had lifted just a bit.…

In 1999, waiting for a train at the Smith-9th Street elevated IND station, I snapped a photo of the massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the…