This is the story of a subway spot even less suitable for human life than most.
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Category: Tunnels
Straight active subway tunnel exploring action
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Subways: The Harlem Hell Cave
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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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The Humidor
There is one general rule about the climate of the subway system that remains almost uniformly true: When it’s hot outside, it is at least 10 degrees hotter underground.
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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…) -
The Ridge Bridge
This is a very unique spot in the NYC subway system for a variety of reasons.
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Ader-Rat, and other snitch stories
When Revs was finally busted in 1999, everyone smelt a rat, and suspicion immediately centered on Ader.
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The embassy of bewildered souls.
This busy subway tunnel seemed to be one of the more popular ones among graffiti artists. Given it’s open spaces and easy hiding spots, it’s not hard to see why.
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YOU CAN’T SEE ME.
In the age of Holyer Than Thou exploration, fresh tunnels are the thing, and egos are king.
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Just a Minor Threat: Revs First Page
In 1981 Minor Threat’s self titled EP and song became something of a punk rock anthem. Close to 25 years later, I found it just a little amusing and perhaps a bit ironic too that the three of us standing in this room at the moment are probably some of the only people that have stopped by here for awhile that actually knew where some of those words scrawled on the walls were from, and maybe ever so slightly the mindset behind it. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take a hint from the title of this post, and the fact that Revs had his own punk rock band at one point.
With that bit of setup mystery – here are the facts: Between 1994 and 1999, Revs painted over 200 ‘journal pages’ in NYC subway tunnels. He created one in nearly every NYC subway tunnel, until he was caught (and many falsely suspected ratted out) right towards the end. His first page was in an emergency exit located along the R line, in Bay Ridge
This first page existed up until a few years ago, and was one of the first ones destroyed when the MTA began throwing away money by repainting all emergency exits.
The entire exit was painted – with graffiti on the walls, ceilings, etc. Some walls were covered in the huge slaps that Revs & Cost became best known for back in the late 1980s.
It’s a shame that this room was basically destroyed. Today it’s covered in boring MTA gray paint.
Most Revs pages remain in their original form, those a few have been destroyed over the years – most by hater-writers, and at least one by the collapse of the world trade center on 9/11.
