Category: Subway-Exploration

Subway exploring posts only.

  • Sea Honk Hell

    Sea Honk Hell

    DR-4927
    What is the “Sea Honk”? And how many red pills do you have to take before you finally find it, whatever it is?
    (more…)

  • Subways – Vent Shaft 1 – Lower East Side

    Subways – Vent Shaft 1 – Lower East Side

    In the spring of 2001, the MTA proposed the construction of this fan plant. The construction consists of a large hole, 70 feet deep, ripped open cut-and-cover style below a local Manhattan street. This location had previously contained an MTA subway emergency exit with an extra ancillary space constructed specifically for future utility use such as this.
    (more…)

  • The Condos

    The Condos

    DR-3478
    Up until the mid 1990s, this emergency exit was known as ‘The Condos’.
    (more…)

  • Claiming The Throne – Newly abandoned Bowery & Canal platforms

    Claiming The Throne – Newly abandoned Bowery & Canal platforms

    DR-3302
    When the MTA closed its first station platforms in decades, we made a point of being the first in.
    (more…)

  • RIP W.K. 1959

    RIP W.K. 1959

    While poking around some tracks downtown, we gained access to a part of the tunnel that was partitioned off in the late 1990s in order to keep the homeless out. Within this area, we found a mysterious bit of graffiti – a chalk outline of a tombstone on a tunnel wall, labeled ” RIP WK 1959″.
    (more…)

  • UnQviet Tube

    UnQviet Tube

    DR-2976

    Ever look out the window of a subway while going through the tunnels and feel like you were being watched by someone or something hiding in the darkness, preying on your unsuspecting back, crouching and ready to shoot?

    Chances are you were.

    DR-2977

    DR-2978

    DR-3024

  • 91st Street and Brooklyn Bridge

    91st Street and Brooklyn Bridge

    2 for 1 old school photos from approx 1997. Fun in a Pre 9/11 NYC.

    91st.-1-bypass
    1 train zipping by 91st street

    91st.-sign
    Old station tile signs still remain

    brooklyn-bridge-end-graff-cats
    Graffiti Cats

    redbirds-passing-bb-ends---southbound
    Just south of the existing station, there’s a length of platform abandoned (as well as platforms behind the walls of the current station).