MTA – York Street Subway Station

There are moments when daily routine and life in general get tough. There are moments when daily routine and life get even tougher in a city like New York. Finding the fastest way to get out of the subway station sometimes can help you out a lot, especially when you’re not in the mood for tough stuff. And York Street subway station is one of those. Guaranteed.
There’s just one exit at the very end of the loooooong platform.
Here some tips:
If you take the F train from Manhattan board the LAST CAR of the train;
if coming from south Brooklyn board the very FIRST ONE. Doing so you’ll be the first to climb the two flights of stairs that lead to the steep ramp before the turnstiles. After that you have two more flights of stairs left before reaching the light… and you’re done.
That said, when you get to the exit, you have a nice view of Dumbo, the river, the ESB, and you’re very close to the Brooklyn bridge park that is right on the water. But if you’re commuting that’s not important to you.
#life#wise#tips##

Only the F stops here so that kind of sucks but if you want to be right by the water at the Manhattan Bridge, this is probably the closest stop to that area. Station itself is the typical NYC subway station though not as icky as some of them.

Ok this station must have had a lot of damaged done to it from the Hurricane Sandy and it still needs a lot of repair but it’s obvious that it is one people try to avoid, the public transportation in New York needs repair and the city need to do what it can with the funds available to them. Let me just say i was glad we were taking this train during the day because i wouldn’t have felt safe at night or alone.

SO FOUL. I HATE THIS TRAIN STATION.
I use this subway station every morning when I am able to catch the F to work. Otherwise, I stay on the A/​C to High Street and walk from there.
This is the longest train station I have ever been to. In order to get from the subway platform to street level, you have to walk up not 1 flight of stairs, but 4 flights and a ramp.
In the morning this is what I have to do:
1. Hopefully I am in the front of the train and can go directly upstairs. Otherwise, I have to walk an entire block underground before I reach the staircase.
2. Once I reach the staircase, climb double file while staying on the right hand side with the rest of the morning crowd. The left hand side is preserved for people entering the station.
3. After the first two flights, walk up the ramp towards the turnstile.
4. Wait for my turn to go through the turnstile; I must wait my turn you see because about 50 other people just got off the train at the same time and must go through the turnstile one at a time.
5. After I pass the turnstile, make a right and climb up another 2 flights of stairs to street level.
BY THE TIME I GET OUT OF THIS GODDAMN STATION, IT HAS ALREADY BEEN 6 – 7 MINUTES, I AM OUT OF BREATH, AND HAVE A HEADACHE FROM WALKING UP ALL THOSE STEPS. NOT A GOOD WAY TO START OFF THE MORNING.
People who have little kids & strollers or old folks, fugedahboutit. I know they are gasping for air after the last flight of stairs. This is probably one of the most poorly designed stations I have ever been in my life. If a fire broke out on the tracks, you would be trapped in there because there is only one exit at the far end of the platform. Not to mention 4 flights of stairs and a ramp before you reach street level.
On top of that, they have bums that live in the station. One time I caught this a homeless female peeing in the corner of the columns near the middle of the platform. She also left behind a gift that I unfortunately got to see the following morning. I feel sorry for who ever had to clean up human feces.
Also, when the train is coming, there is no where for the air to blow except directly through this tight ass tunnel so as the train is pulling in, all the grit and dust and dirt are flying full force into your face, hair clothes etc.
This subway is so irritating and filthy.

Decent subway station.
I really don’t have a choice but to try to like it since I work right off the York stop.
I could almost as easily use the High St. station but prefer this one regularly. However that’s not really saying much.
The looooong ramp is a good workout I suppose & there’s usually a police officer in the booth by the trains so I guess that makes it more safe.
Silly to review a subway station in all reality but since I check in here often it seems cheap to not post one.

The York Street station is happenin,’ man… it’s one of my favorite stations, mostly because it’s unrenovated, down to the yellow pipes they have for bannisters. That’s so steampunk! Can you dig it?
This is the first stop of the F train in Brooklyn – and the last stop of the F before entering Manhattan – but this review is for the station, not the train (which sucks.) Even though the F train generally sucks, it’s wickedly fast to get here from my neighborhood – only two stops – and it makes me happy.