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KevinKorell
Park Slope Patch, Brooklyn, NY, 3/15/12:
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The straphangers around Smith and Ninth Street will be stranded without a train until the fall.

The reopening of the Smith-Ninth Street F and G subway station, which was slated for the end of this month, will be delayed until fall 2012, according to the MTA and Craig Hammerman, the district manager of Community Board 6.
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KevinKorell
Now it's delayed a full year, rescheduled for March 2013. From News 12, 12/28/12:
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Red Hook subway station opening delayed to March

Red Hook residents will continue to face difficulties with the subway into the new year, as the opening of the Smith 9th Street subway station has been pushed back three months.
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KevinKorell
Well it's been closed this long, what's another month? Finally, third week of April, the highest subway station will finally reopen. From Second Avenue Sagas, 3/21/13:
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Transit finally announces late April opening for Smith-9th Streets

It’s not quite the first quarter of 2013, but it will have to do.

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KevinKorell
Progressive Railroading, 3/27/13:
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MTA to reopen Brooklyn station

Next month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) plans to reopen what MTA officials call the "world's highest subway station" after a two-year rehabilitation project.
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Sloan

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On 22 April, Smith-9th Street in New York’s Brooklyn – 79 years old and said to be the highest subway station in the world – is set to reopen


http://www.railwaysafrica.com/blog/2013/04...tation-reopens/
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