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Twitter users name NYC's best subway stop

By and STEPHANIE BERTINI
Updated  January 3, 2023 5:28am EST
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Brooklyn subway station named NYC's best

Twitter users have made it official, crowning the Smith-Ninth Streets Station in Gowanus, Brooklyn as New York City's best subway station.

NEW YORK - New Yorkers on Twitter have declared the city's best subway stop is in Brooklyn.

An online contest launched by Sunny Ng, a software engineer from Williamsburg named the Smith-Ninth Streets Station in Gowanus as the city's best subway station. 

The contest was set up as a bracket, similar to March Madness, matching up some of the city's most beloved subway stations to see which one is the best. 

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It took nine rounds of voting to whittle things down from 424 stations, all the way down to #1.

But why Smith-Ninth Streets? Much of it apparently has to do with the gorgeous views of Manhattan afforded by the station.

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Smith-Ninth Streets is above ground and the station, which serves the F and G trains, is the tallest transit station in the world. 

"I always really liked public transit," Ng said of why he started the survey. "There's a bunch of really passionate people on Twitter about public transit, and so I wanted to do a fun bracket."