Three R Train Stations Will Shut Down for Six Months this Spring to Join the Future

New York City is not as dirty and rough around the edges as it once was, but it is still not what anyone would call a clean place. Often, nowhere is this more on display than inside the New York City Subway, where tracks, for many people, appear to be large garbage cans, and walls, stairs, and floors crumble or are covered in layers of filth.
But this spring, three stations on the R line in Brooklyn will be given a thorough spring cleaning—and infrastructural upgrades—as part of