Here’s a short vid taken out the window of the F Train as it goes from Smith-9th Street to Fourth Avenue, on the new flickr video.

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Normally, the promise of a City Council hearing is not something that gets the juices flowing. When the hearing is a Transportation Committee oversight hearing on G Train service. We posted about this in late March and it’s worth noting again that the hearing will take place today at 1PM in the City Council Chambers […]

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Ah, Sunday, the day we turn to our Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection. Once again, the Missed Connections take us to the subway as they so often do, but this one is not like the other MC’s about passing glances traded from seats on the train or on the platform: Thurs your phone flew on to […]

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Ah, another weekend of insane service changes on the F line, from Park Slope to Jay Street-Borough Hall, and the Running of the Shuttle Buses. We caught the monthly Running of the Buses at Ninth Street and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, where people were staring slack jawed at the mindboggling set of directions from […]

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If you depend on the F train to get places and you normally catch the train between Jay Street-Borough Hall and Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, be prepared to take shuttle buses this weekend or walk. The same set of disruptions that occurred a few weeks ago are happening again and the instructions are so […]

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Yesterday, a teenager was charged with a hate crime for allegedly taking a yarmulke from someone’s head at the Fourth Avenue Station in Park Slope back on March 18 The Daily News had some details, but the story that captured our attention was the one on Wicked Local Wellesley. The victim is a rabbinical assistant […]

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We’ve picked to items for our weekly Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. They are oddly related in a first or second cousins kind of way. One involves an odd arrest at the Jay Street station and the other has as its focus a kumquat thief at Union Market in Park Slope: You got arrested Jay St […]

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This is the way the Fourth Avenue Station will look after the MTA is finished renovating it sometime between 2010 and 2012. The renovation will include the replacement of opaque panels with glass, providing views up and down Fourth Avenue from the elevated bridge structure. The rendering is in the latest edition of the Brooklyn […]

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The L Train, which is the lifeline of an awful lot of people living in North Brooklyn got a mixed set of marks in the latest NYC Transit report cards filled out by riders. While they’re far from stellar grades, they’re a lot better than you’d think, given service disruptions, overcrowding and the like. Here’s […]

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This blog item manages to blend two hot button topics–the Park Slope Food Coop and having one’s child “go potty” on the subway. (We’ve previously covered the topic of them going potty on trees in Park Slope.) This blog post was written by an Upper West Side mom taking her son with her to the […]

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Brooklynites that have been pushing for an F Train may get some short-term relief in the form of a temporary F Express if work on the Culver Viaduct project falls behind schedule, but otherwise, the New York City Transit says that express service on the F won’t be possible until 2012 or early 2013. Andrew […]

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Don’t look now, but even some supporters are starting to suggest that the F Train Express idea, which has gotten much play in the media, may have died at the starting gate. That’s because the MTA is sticking to its guns and continuing to say that there’s no way they can do it until 2012. […]

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Here’s a vid posted in the last few days to the YouTube that deals with the subject of the F Train and a possible Express. We do wish that music hadn’t been put underneath the person speaking so that it makes her harder to understand.

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Park Slope, Brooklyn

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If we were to bet on one idea that’s risen through the grassroots that may have a shot at seeing the light of day in a reasonable amount of time, at this point we’d be putting some money on the idea of restoring express service to Brooklyn’s F Line. Not only has the idea made […]

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That petition calling for express F Train service in Brooklyn that started by the blogger behind Brooklyn Streets, Carroll Gardens has gotten 1,300 signatures in about five days. That certainly seems to indicate there’s some support in the community for the idea. The MTA has indicated, however, that the earliest an express train could be […]

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The online petition to create an express F Train and extend the V Train to Brooklyn as a local got more than 750 signatures in little more than a day, which would seem to indicate the idea being pushed by the blog Brooklyn Streets has some support among residents that use the line. In the […]

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If you want to get a strong reaction from a whole lot of people in Brooklyn, talk about F Train service and about how it can be improved. (Yes, the same holds true in most neighborhoods…and we don’t even want to get into the subject of the G Train or the L Train.) In any […]

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G Train, Around Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn

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There’s good news and bad news about the L Train from the MTA. The good news is that, eventually, there will be more trains and your life will become slightly less unpleasant. The bad news is that there won’t be any relief until 2010. At which point, thousands of additional residents along the L corridor […]

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Does your day begin and/or end with the F Train? The other day, the Kensington Brooklyn blog mentioned that F Train service kind of sucks and solicited opinions on same, noting that something called the Culver Viaduct Rehabilitation is due to begin later this year. In any case, ee’re certain that many people will be […]

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Those who ride the F or (God Bless You) the G train in South Brooklyn know the glories of the Smith-9th Street Station, which at about ten stories, is the highest station in the New York City system. And, if you don’t know what it is, and have glimpsed it, you’ve probably asked, “What the […]

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