Gates Avenue Subway

This place? It’s a subway stop. It’s an elevated station with no elevator, and the stop I take the J train to when I want to go to Toad Style in Bed-​Stuy (Do or Die!)
Unfortunately, if you’re mobility-​impaired, you’re going to have a helluva time getting up and down the stairs; I broke my kneecap a few months ago, and because I wore a knee immobilizer for a month, I wasn’t able to go to places with high rickety staircases like most of the elevated stations in the city. Many of them do have elevators, however; it’s just not always possible to know which ones – and which ones are operational. (I know people want to give me the side-​eye if I ask for their seat on the bus, and for that reason I’m more likely to stand now rather than even ask.) Fortunately, my knee has healed by now.
This station is great; I love the J train, particularly when it goes express to Myrtle avenue (To quote Henry Miller, no saint ever walked there.)