Smith/9th F/G To reopen in April

Photo via www.harukophoto.blogspot.com

Via Park Slope Patch comes the news that the Smith/9th Street station on the F/G line will reopen in April of this year. This will be great for the the people who live off of this stop, but greater for those of us who will get the xtra 45 seconds of above-ground cell phone usage! 

THINGS YOU GET ON THE F TRAIN: ANNOYED, SWINE FLU, BOOK DEAL

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I guess I shouldn't have spent the last five years of my life writing, revising, getting an agent and searching for a publisher for my novel, 'cause apparently what I should have been doing was just talking really loudly about my manuscript while riding the F train, and keeping my fingers crossed that someone important was eavesdropping.

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Cool Or Not Cool: Letting Your Kids Eat On The Subway?

 

Obnoxious kids in bars & eateries are one thing. But how about those families who choose to have the kiddos eat their meals on public transportation? What could go wrong, you might ask? Just witness the unfurling disaster in the above photo. Last Sunday, this familial unit's Happy Meals and 2 dropped coffees explode all over a Brooklyn-bound F Train.

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Is this Dude on the F Train a Hopeless Romantic, or Total Creep?

[VIA GAWKER]

Meet Joe (I'm not actually sure this is his name, but for all intents and purposes, let's just call him that). On Friday morning, Joe was spotted by a Gawker tipster on the F train in Brooklyn. He was wearing a sandwich board with a giant print of him and his ex-girlfriend, and a message that read "I LOVE THIS GIRL! PLEASE HELP ME GET A SECOND CHANCE." Joe then asked F train passengers to sign the board, and to leave messages that would encourage the ex girlfriend to forgive and take him back.

As you can see from the picture, people were clearly doing it (though judging from what I've seen people write on the subway, I can only assume some of those notes just read "cock"). Whether or not this actually lead to Joe getting his ex-girlfriend back, we'll probably never know. But that shouldn't stop us from completely picking Joe apart for his choices, should it?

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More Details Emerge About Park Slope Train Stabbing

Emil Benjamin / Via The Daily News

This past Monday there was a stabbing on a train in Park Slope. The details were vague at first -- was the man 29 or 30? Was it a G or an F train? What prompted the attack? -- but have since come together to paint a pretty fucked up picture.

30 year-old Emil Benjamin and his brother were on an F train around 9:40PM when two men approached and started hurling anti-Semitic slurs at them.

"They said, 'You're nobody, you Jewish bastard,' " Benjamin told the Daily News. 

The men then jumped Benjamin, and the pummeling spilled from the train onto the platform once the train stopped at the 4th ave/9th street station. Benjamin landed a good punch on one of the guys, at which time they fled. That's when he realized he'd been stabbed.

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