9th Street Station - Gowanus

Yesterday on my way to a holiday dinner on the Upper West Side with my young film crew, I miscued connections at Hoyt Schmerhorn, one of the MTA's forlonest stations. I was on the C. A train pulled in across the platform. I thought it was the A. Wrong. Not the A. The G heading deeper into Brooklyn. I got to Bergen and thought about changing and then recalled that the next stop, 9th Street, rose from the earth to cross the Gowanus Canal. Where it was easier to change from outbound to inbound. Plus I like be that station. Almost 90 feet high. Views of the barrens bordering the Gowanus Canal. Once industry stone and sand depots. Now soon-to-be luxury condo complexes along one of New York City's most toxic waterways. What a glorious mistake. The 20th Century construction a marvel to a 20th Century man. The skyline of Lower Manhattan with old steel girders overhead. The G train came into the station and I was gone. Too soon. I was late. Maybe.