Tallest subway platform in NYC among 60 stations set to finally get elevators: ‘They’re climbing Mount Everest’

Fuente: New York Post

For Brooklyn subway riders, it’s only up from here. The Big Apple’s tallest subway station is finally set to get elevators, putting an end to straphangers’ 90-foot hike that officials have likened to “climbing Mount Everest. ” The century-old Smith-9th Street subway station in Gowanus – one of the tallest in the world – is slated to finally get elevators and bring relief to huffing-and-puffing F and G train riders under the MTA’s 2025-29 capital plan, state Sen.