This is another MTA exhaust ventilation fan plant construction site. This project, costing nearly $30 million dollars, involves the expansion of yet another preexisting fan plant to better remove smoke and increase air circulation within an MTA Subway tunnel.
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Category: Subway-Exploration
Subway exploring posts only.
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Subways – Vent Shaft 2 – Chelsea
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Sea Honk Hell
What is the “Sea Honk”? And how many red pills do you have to take before you finally find it, whatever it is?
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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.
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Claiming The Throne – Newly abandoned Bowery & Canal platforms
When the MTA closed its first station platforms in decades, we made a point of being the first in.
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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″.
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UnQviet Tube
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.
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91st Street and Brooklyn Bridge
2 for 1 old school photos from approx 1997. Fun in a Pre 9/11 NYC.
1 train zipping by 91st street
Old station tile signs still remain
Graffiti Cats
Just south of the existing station, there’s a length of platform abandoned (as well as platforms behind the walls of the current station).
