2nd Avenue Subway Station

F Train platform. Late night Fs take forever. But it could be worse… and it’s warm during the winter.

Good luck trying to get an F here at night. Huge station but it feels like a waste to have 2 platforms with only 1 train coming through here. There is a police presence at night, thankfully. I still prefer to go to a different stop if I can help it.

Oh, 2^nd Ave F station…
Why, oh why do you always reek of pee? Winter, spring, summer, fall… the only constant is the stench of urine.
Oh, yes, I know you’re part of the original IND 6^th Ave. line stations – first opened in 1936 – and must have many stories to tell. When I think back to years past, I wonder if Keith Haring or Jean-​Michel Basquiat ever stood on the platform or, maybe Patti Smith or Lou Reed or even Allen Ginsberg… and waited for a train… in the same spot that I have waited. All the history is pretty cool when one pauses and thinks about it.
I just wish you were cleaner and didn’t smell of piss.

It’s old, which fits the feel of that area of the city. And it does its job.

This is a pretty cool old station (that smells like piss) but although it’s only for one train, it feels like a big transit hub because the platform runs all the way between 1^st and 2^nd avenues. The platform near the wall is for the F, but for a few years the middle platform was used as the starting and ending point for the V.
Unfortunately, the train it’s for is the F-​ing F. When I can, I prefer to go to Delancey/​Essex instead.