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: Stations
Complete abandoned subway stations
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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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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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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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Essex Street Trolley Terminal (Future Low Line Park)
If you take the J or M trains to Essex street, you’ll notice an unusual huge space next to the station. What is this, you might ask?
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The Abandoned Cortlandt Street station and the 9/11 Line
On September 11, 2001, the tunnel used by the 1 train in lower manhattan was destroyed through the world trade center site. Debris and iron beams punched through the ceiling of the tunnel, partially caving in the Cortlandt street station and sections of tunnel between stations.
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Winfield’s Revenge
This abandoned NYC subway spur and station were intended to be the terminal of a subway branch line that was never built. (more…) -
Bergen Lower
For anyone that doesn’t know, Bergen Street station in Brooklyn has an abandoned lower level platform.
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Myrtle Ave Abandoned Station and Mezzanine
Growing up in 70s/80s NYC, I always loved coming home from Coney Island. I’d be up at the front of the train (usually some graffiti covered R-30 or R-40 cars) eagerly awaiting the approach to the Manhattan bridge where I could stare out at the dark mystery world known as Myrtle Avenue.
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WHAT IS THE SEA HONK?? – Abandoned Lower level platform, 42nd street.
42nd Street Lower is a very well know, oddly constructed subway station.
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Exploring the Abandoned Worth Street Subway Station (2005)
Worth street station on the IRT line is a strange breed among abandoned subway stations.
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