Long before the MTA gave it’s press tour, we helped ourselves to a peak behind the curtain of this new station, which is set to open sometime in the next month or two.
Category: Subway-Exploration
Subway exploring posts only.
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The New and Old South Ferry – Unofficial Tour
The NYC MTA is opening a new subway station at South Ferry. This new station, funded by the feds after 9/11, is meant to replace the old 1905 South Ferry loop station on the 1 & 9 line. What’s most interesting about this station is that they’ve tied it to the nearby R/W whitehall street station, as well as connected it to the old loop stations via doorways and utility rooms which the public will likely never get to see (and yes, that is loop stations in the plurial – the inner track on the south ferry loop, used to turn #5 trains during non-rush hours, also has a station located behind it’s wall. This station was abandoned in the 1970s.).
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Second Avenue Subway, 1970s Harlem Segment
When we arrived at this tunnel, it had never been photographed before. Only a few daredevil graffiti artists even knew it existed, and everyone was tight lipped about how to get in. Make no mistake – getting in was a challenge, but we don’t do this because it’s always easy.
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F’ing mirror image.
Sometimes subway stations are only, at best, half in use. There’s many many many stations with abandoned mezzanines and closed off entrances. This is one of them.
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Track Work Season
Sometimes you just have to engage in a little bit of freelance track inspection.
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The River Nevs: The Abandoned Nevins Street station.
The River Nevs, as I like to call it, is actually a stretch of subway tunnel named after the abandoned station found along this route. Located below an active subway tunnel, this tunnel and station were built at great expense as a means to connect to a proposed subway line which was never built. The station is complete with the standard flair of tilework that is sometimes missing in other abandoned stations.
The station today is a netherworld along this pitch black tunnel. Water leaks in along the tunnel trackway rolling downhill to the station, sounding like a hundred demented voices chirping in the darkness. The constant runoff of water has necessitated the MTA to build a pump room located square in the middle of the trackway at one end of the station. If not for the pump room, this entire station would be submerged under water.
The platform itself has over the years become a storage area for various work projects. A rather odd collection of items can be found in these rooms dating back to the 1980s and perhaps beyond. Layers of dirt cover the floors and anything else left in this unique forgotten corner of the system.
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Gamblers Tunnel
Here we have a 6 track mainline subway tunnel – a great place for a game of Underground Frogger. -
Nee How Ma? WoaHa!
I’ve always liked this subway tunnel spot. It’s just plain nice in a lot of weird ways. Lots of action, lots of legend, and lots of hobo bits…
But one thing I never noticed until now is the god damned weird ass asian looking graffiti. I’ve not noticed this in any other subway tunnel either. Who did this and what the hell does it say?
Or did I just make a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up digging all the way to china?
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WhiteWashing What Was Real
Emergency exits are currently being fixed up and painted throughout the system ahead of enhanced security measure installations. This is a cold and ugly fact to those of that who enjoy tunnels like women: DIRTY.
It is, unfortunately, what it is. Much old historic exit graffiti has already been whitewashed away. How long will it be before every exit looks the same, with boring, lifeless gray paint replacing the tags and worker scrawled notes written on walls that next to no one would ever get to see.
It’s just another nail in the coffin of what was once a truly crazy city, where everything in the subways – including the emergency exits, were covered in graffiti.
