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    • Is The Gravesend-Bound F Train The “Silicon Subway?”


    by on Aug 1st, 2012

    Source: Youngking11 via Wikimedia Commons

    A bit of a squabble has broken out between Crain’s New York and Forbes over the social capital of the F train.

    Crain’s says that the F train “has become more than a line of convenience for the city’s tech companies, funders and staffers alike. Today, it also ranks as a powerful drawing card.”

    While Forbes isn’t “buying it.” In fact, they’ve honed in on the motive behind the story.

    “Now, it’s obvious why Cornell and Skorton [quoted in the article] would want to push the F train story: They’re huge partners in the new tech campus that’s set to dominate Roosevelt Island—a neighborhood that is accessible by (surprise, surprise) the F train,” Forbes states.

    Somehow, both publications seem to agree on one point: The end of the line, Gravesend, offers “larger apartments that rent far below Manhattan norms.”

    Conclusion: “Silicon Subway” or not, Gravesend has more bang for your buck, and maybe some awesome geniuses live here.

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    • EndofDaze

      I’ve been riding that line, all of my fifty six years plus, even when it was called the “D” train, (shout out to, Culver!) and ended at 205th Street in The Bronx. Unless I didn’t have enough Blueberries for breakfast this morning, I could swear (excuse me!) it has always eventually ended on its’ southern route, at Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island, and not Gravesend! Boy, things are really changing, besides the languages out there?!

      • Kool4Coney

        dont ‘all roads’ lead to the stillwell station in Coney? anyone who has ever fallen asleep on the long train ride back to south Brooklyn can atest to that fact ;) I never knew that the F line was once the D line :)

      • LVladimirova

        Yes, of course it ends at Coney. Any decent Brooklynite knows that. It seems, however, that the start-up geniuses all get off at Gravesend ;)

        • LVladimirova

          Also, there is something about this article that brings out the squabblers in us.