Subway-Exploration Archives

Dust Tunnel Graffiti

Tail Track Graffiti

VFR

Of Dust and Tails: an abandoned subway tunnel from a forgotten era.

Under Chinatown, there’s a stretch of mostly disused subway tunnel unlike any other in NYC. It is relatively poorly documented, not appearing on any publicly available subways maps.

4 little known facts about the new Second Avenue Subway, and phase 2 budgeting

As the first phase of the second avenue subway finally opens, it is important to note a few interesting distinctions.

James Connolly

“The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go.”

The ultimate gamble

A year ago, someone died on these tracks.

Is that a SCUD mission in your pocket?

1991.

4Dash9

I only explore tunnels with Ninjas

The abandoned City Hall BMT station (Lower Level) – 2004

The abandoned lower level platform at City Hall is the only abandoned subway station in NYC that is used to store subway trains.

Grant Layup

Grant Layup is the unofficial name that graffiti writers placed on the provisional track space located between the Euclid and Grant avenue stations on the A line.

Tunnel Daemons

Jamaica Yard Leads & World’s Fair Connection

The tracks leading to Jamaica Yard under Queens Blvd. are a complex testament to the forward thinking applied to much of the construction of the old IND route lines.