G Train Extension

In all my years as an MTA fanatic, I’ve never seen a rapid transit service nonplus me so! The long-overdue and recently realized design of stretching the southern terminus of the G train from Smith-9th St to Church Avenue has shaken up my world and I don’t know if I’ll ever be the same.

 

After all these years, the fluctuating pixel-like diagram on the inside of the train reads ‘Kensington, Brooklyn’ as that is the new destination of all southern-bound G trains.

 

How bizarre! A Fort Greene-and-Greenpoint-traveling G train now reaching as far as Kensington?! What does that mean? Will my beautiful, dusty, immigrant neighborhood be overrun by those who wouldn’t have made the journey by F train? Will the length of the train be elongated to normal size? With Park Slope and Greenpoint now directly connected, with quiet subway stops such as Fort Hamilton Parkway now serviced by the rowdy, oft-hated on G, what grand seismic neighborhood demographic changes are underway?!

 

I can’t think of it! I console myself it’s no Robert Moses undertaking yet it seems like such an uncharacteristic shift in neighborhood-train alliances! The 1933-born G hasn’t run to Church Avenue since 1968 and only then till 1976! But wait-that’s just it! I’d forgotten to mention-O sweet till-the-last-paragraph forgotten memory! This new G route is proposed only to last for the next four years. Whew! In no time, my home will fall back into obscurity. Or so I nightly wish.