Rete: View from the Q train BY Author Erik Schurink | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Rete Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel, a rete of steel—a radial zigzag; an arced fragment of New York’s subway rete; the red of an otherwise invisible electrical rete; and the window pane made visible by refraction, read by retes of rods, cones, and nerves.