"Rebuilding The Culver Viaduct"

EE Broadway Local · January 8, 2011

"For nearly 80 years the Culver Viaduct has stood as a part of the Brooklyn skyline, a high-arched link between midtown Manhattan {and} the Stillwell Avenue Terminal in Coney Island {nearly forty-seven of those nearly eighty years 70(EE)}. Spanning the Gowanus Canal, the structure supports four tracks, two subway lines, and two stations, including the Smith and Ninth Streets stop which, at a height of 87.5 feet, is the highest subway station in the world. This impressive structure is currently undergoing a four-year reconstruction.

The concrete-encased steel structure is approximately one mile long {from Carroll Street to Fourth Avenue 70(EE)}, connecting the Carroll Gardens and Park Slope neighborhoods. Built as part of the IND. subway system, the viaduct carries (F) and (G) trains serving tens of thousands of subway customers each day. A major project, started nearly a year ago, is currently underway to rehabilitate the aging structure. The work is necessary to improve poor track drainage which had caused severe deterioration to the structure's concrete sheathing. Passersby could not help but notice the netting which was wrapped around the structure to prevent the concrete pieces from falling to the sidewalks and roadways below."