Closing Bell: Smith-9th Streets Station Closed Until April!

Can’t say we’re surprised! Today the Park Slope Stoop blog combed through the MTA’s notes from December’s Capital Program Oversight Committee Meeting and found out the Smith-9th Streets station will not reopen until April of 2013. The station, which serves Carroll Gardens and the otherwise subway-less neighborhood of Red Hook, was supposed to open in the spring of this year, and then it was pushed back to fall of this year. The station first closed in June 2011 as part of work on the Culver Viaduct rehab project. The reason for all the delays? The project went over budget and, according to the MTA, the “contractor’s poor management, insufficient manpower and quality control, and other design issues” caused problems, too.
Smith-9th Streets Station: Closed Until April [Park Slope Stoop]