Smith-9 Sts — Local services in New York

Technicians and engineers from the world over have come to try their hand at cracking the mystery that are the Escalators of Smith St Station. Year round, daily commuters are invited to observe, and take part of, the poetic irony of being presented a way to climb the Great Ascent to the platform above, without the function. The spectacle of seeing team after team attempt to solve this mystery, is an entertainment of the rarest variety you'll not want to miss. But don't worry, this is anything but a limited time occurrence, so feel free to plan months, maybe even years in advance for your chance to see the greatest...

Thanks for the photo! A little more perspective, a little more tele, and perhaps we would see what Isaac Asimov saw on his way to Manhattan from the Prospect Park 15th St Station when he was just 18, on the way to Manhattan, trying to get published in one comic or another. Maybe that view made him think a little bigger, about a mother ship, a civilization unlike any other, adrift in space, with passenger ships and barges bringing humans and others to share in its culture, its sophistication, its ideas - much like the civilization he depicted so graphically in the Foundation trilogy that so inspired young...

Beautiful station following renovations in 2015/2016, however, despite being the highest elevation station in Brooklyn, it doesn't have an elevator making it inaccessible to wheelchairs or anyone requiring anything beyond escalators. During my last two visits, the downstairs escalators were out of drive and walking down stairs was necessary.

Otherwise, if you are looking for nice views of Manhattan and approaching trains, this is a good...