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Category: Layups
Where subways go to sleep
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Church Avenue Subway Yard
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174th street Subway Yard
C train in the yardThe 174th street subway yard is a cavernous space under Washington Heights that is currently used to store C trains.
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137th street Subway Yard
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Abandoned 63rd street platform & Mezzanine, Circa 2004
In 2004, Myself and a photoblogger (back when that was a thing) set out to get onto the abandoned platform at 63rd street.
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Tomb of the Unnamed + Repent Tunnel
The end of this tunnel was once filled with the ashes of many unnamed victims. Ashes of those who met a horrid death that I watched with my own eyes and could smell and taste for days beyond. You don’t forget something like that, ever.
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