Councilman To MTA: Build Bridge Over Brooklyn Subway Pond

WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN — Local commuters took an Oz-like journey to work Thursday morning when a massive subway puddle forced them to follow the slimy brick road.

Windsor Terrace straphangers were caught on video — and in photos taken by City Councilman Brad Lander — nimbly hopping across red bricks “to ford a small lake” that formed in the Fort Hamilton subway station during rush hour.

This morning at the Fort Hamilton Pkwy station. Bricks and milk crates being used to forge the small lake that has formed in the station. from r/nyc

“That's the kind of obstacle course i need to wake me up the morning,” responded Reddit user FyuuR.

Lander posted his own photographs of the problematic puddle with a plea to the MTA to come the neighborhood's rescue.

“Can we build them a bridge?” Lander tweeted. “Constituents had to wade through a pond this morning.”

MTA officials quickly responded to Lander’s request with their own photographic evidence of conditions in the F train station.

But the speedy repairs did not stop straphangers from comparing their commute to the Oregon Trail — a computer game that pits pioneers against the elements and buffalo — and shouting out thanks to the person they claimed was the true hero.

"The one who laid the bricks down should at least get a thank you," wrote one Reddit user.

& there was an older woman who needed help crossing the pond but the path of bricks (thanks to whoever did that!) made it so only one person could cross at a time.
— LaToya Jordan (@latoyadjordan) May 17, 2018

Photo courtesy of City Councilman Brad Lander/Twitter