Smith–Ninth Streets (IND Culver Line)

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Coordinates: 40°40′27.30″N, 73°59′48.63″W


Smith–Ninth Streets
New York City Subway station

Station information
Line	IND Culver Line
Services	F (all times) G (all times)
Platforms	2 side platformss
Tracks	4
Other
Borough	Brooklyn
Opened	October 7, 1933
Next north	Carroll Street: F G
Next south	Fourth Avenue: F

Station logo tilework

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 occasionly 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 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.^[1]^[2]