⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ NYC Subway Front Window View - The A Line to 207th Street 

And relatively clean, too. Nothing spoils the view more than a dirty window. 🗨👩‍🦰NewYork Redhead

Or something slimy smearing the window

@@SpeedbirdNine9 you are not a red head lmao

if a camera is right up against the glass, you only need a clean spot of about an inch in diameter.

Lol the ttc only has one train assigned to one line so they’re no such things as a A or C train on the same line makes it easier so you can just hop on any train that comes and will still bring you to the same station lol

I heard this was the worst from Harold Cruz

OMG A GIANTS FAN GET THE HECK OUTTA HERE LETS GO EAGLES!!!! (I'm kidding likely team u want just know your team sucks)

@Megan Isenberg . I'll give it to your team this year because they were unstoppable, but that's about as far as I go. No self-respecting New Yorker would ever root for those eagles. Go KC!! Lol

Thank you for your service.

As a current t/o this is my favorite run, even when I was a conductor. Just love the express

I used to ride the PATH train, and I used to be pissed off when someone was already there standing by the windows. The old PATH train car that had brown and beige seats had two front windows you can look out of. One while sitting on the very first seat, and the other on the sliding door that was locked, for safety reasons of course. My favorite spot was standing at the sliding door window with my back turned to everybody else.

I thought I was the only one I miss hoppin the m

Same here and I’m old enough that we were able to have the top of the window down and we got the breeze in our face and the smell of the air in the tunnel… this was in the early 60’s. . Watching these videos brought back all those great memories

never been to nyc but i want to visit and ride every train line some day soon.

yup me too. I used to play hookie from school and ride the trains everywhere. always had to watch out for the truancy offers though.

It's ever more frustrating if you mistakenly get on an express when your stop is a local and watch it whiz by! Been there, done that!

I'll admit that that could be frustrating when you actually need to be somewhere, but it's not so bad when you're not "in a rush." One of the best rail experiences I've had was standing on the platform of a Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train) and one of their "express" trains passing by me at almost 200 mph! Even the more "local" lines don't "slow down" when skipping stops right next to the platform. "Common sense" dictates Japanese rail safety and, at least for them, it works.

Daryl Kosovo,s

@Portland Native Naw, I actually lived in Japan for 7 years; by order of the US Navy.

It's a pain being on a local platform and having the train go by. Even stranger when the engineer hardly slows down. They seem to have cracked down on that for the last several years.

You rock bro D train from the Bronx

sure you have....lol

Lower East Side right here... Lived underground. #djrtnyc

I love the NYC subways. Don't care what people say about them, they're incredible to experience.

Where do you live now?

Where are you from

"Getting some tans" dont you already have a natural tan?

What a story buddy…good to know all that if ever on the water around

God is good man, clearly!..

I really wonder how things here would look in 2060. Looking back at these videos then would feel so cool too!

well if ya think about it,, if we had the technology back then to make video cameras , then we probably, woulda already gone past the steam engine ,,

there is video

@@ridokousennin8747 literally the world will end in that year

Doug Archer you need to Visit. It’s worth the trip. With that said, despite its many issues ie garbage and trash, overcrowding, sometimes crime and some badly infrastructure upgrades, the scenery on the N.Y. subways especially here on the “A” train ‘s outdoor aka elevated sections is worth the trip.

Agree

Crime as a problem is a past time in New York, especially manhattan. Don’t listen to that mumbo jumbo (outside the latest riots). Anywho, New York is amazing, overcrowding and those things are only an issue in midtown, rest of New York is lovelyyyy. Lived here 10 years.

Tony, when did those changes take place?

@@wadeharris3535 Oh man! I'd have to look it up. Basically, the city wanted to kill the BMT and IRT. Look at the parallels. In the Bronx, the IND Concourse line just TROLLS the Jerome Avenue 4 line. It's a block away! They built the IND A line UNDER THE FULTON EL! So, when the BMT went bust, they demolished the Fulton El but left the spur from like Euclid to Lefferts and just built a ramp from the A and tied it into the El. Similar to the J. Demolished it East of 121st and built a ramp down to the new Parsons Archer station. Make no mistake. The city wanted control of all mass transit, and got it in the 40s.

I make it up to New York every couple of years (I live near Tulsa). I find these little historical items fascinating; something new to look for during my next visit.

"When the BMT went out of business, the city tore down that part of the El, and rerouted it into the subway." Nope. Unification happened on June 1, 1940, and the City of New York took over all the lines that was previously owned (and built) by private companies, BMT/BRT and IRT (even though there many lines that predate the BMT/BRT and IRT such as the 2nd, 3rd, 6th, and 9th Avenue Els in Manhattan and the 5th Avenue, Myrtle Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Fulton Street and Broadway-Brooklyn (to forrmer stub terminal at Cypress Hills) Els in Brooklyn. The IND was the only former division that was city-owned initially. While it was rerouted into the subway (IND Fulton St Subway), the Fulton St IND and Fulton Street El co-existed for awhile. The IND Fulton St Subway (A/C Trains) opened to Rockaway Avenue Station on 4/9/1936 while the portion of the Fulton St EL west of Rockaway Avenue Station to Fulton Ferry Station closed on 5/31/1940. The Fulton St Subway was extended from Rockaway Avenue Station to B'way-East New York on 12/30/1946. The section from B'way-East New York station to Euclid Avenue station opened on 11/28/1948. The final section, the connection from Euclid Avenue to the former Fulton Street El west of 80th-Hudson (including the Grant Avenue Station), opened on 4/29/1956. The part of the Fulton St El from Rockaway Avenue Station to west of 80th-Hudson Street Station closed on April 26/27, 1956 and demolished in early 1958.

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That's kinda odd, collecting fare when you get off the train. When you say 1962 it's before the MTA existed and the subway was operated by a private company, there were actually 3 private subway companies so that's probably why there weren't free transfers.

@@NeighborSenpai Not exactly. While the MTA wasn't around all subway lines were owned and run by the City (NYCT) After June 1940. Free transfers and connections came about in the 1940s. Train to Bus transfers came in 1997/98 with the Metro Card gold. The Rockaway line was opened in 1956 from old LIRR trackage there was a Double fare until the mid 1970's. From what I understand it was sort of a tax to help pay for construction or reconstruction of the line. The A run's 31miles for $2.75 one of the best deals anywhere.

@@rgalesnyc I was under the impression that the city took over all transit only after MTA started, guess I was wrong.

@@NeighborSenpai The MTA was formed in 1968. 28 years after unification,

@@rgalesnyc Yes, though they've increased the interline transfers underground since the 1980s. Before that, it was difficult to transfer from BMT to IND or IRT except for very big stations like Times Sq and Union Sq.

LMAO

Monarch Butterfly!

That’s life

@@Kamikaze-rf4qq and death.... in the big city.

wasted

Mine too

Good work pal!

NO GRAFFITI?

Mai Yenish what do you mean? There is no graffiti on the trains..and if there is it gets sent somewhere to be cleaned.

@@eremika4life EXACTLY! NO GRAFFITI! NYC subway cars used to be the canvass of the world.... (well.. maybe of gangs).

Yes! The shuttle coming from Rockaway Park

@@maiyenish8552 They still get painted a lot, just dont run in traffic :p it would be intresting to walk in the tunnels and look at graffiti, probably stuff left there from the 80s

azusa 🐐🐐🐐

boring.

thanks

Edgemere is best station

Rock rock RockawayBeach we can hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach

Yep! That's the longest distance between stations in the system. The abandoned platforms and tracks at Hoyt link to the Court St station, which is now the New York Transit Museum.

Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station is where Michael Jackson's "Bad" video was shot .

Don't forget the S shuttle from Broad Channel to Beach 116th Street at the other end of the Rockaway Peninsula.

Vanessa Yates the one to Rockaway park is only a rush hour service. I personally think the C should be extended to Lefferts

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And who remembers the train to the plane?! Yeah I'm that old LOL

@@mariannemason7700 the JFK Express.

Norristown high speed line goes over a river

It was originally Long Island Railroad Rockaway Beach Branch.....

@@emmanuelharris6491 that is not nearly as good

I grew up in the Montreal area and, if I was coming home (to Pincourt) from downtown Montreal, I took a commuter train that went over water too, but that was a relatively high bridge over a river (Ottawa River, Sainte Anne Rapids). The view from the A-Train on those long low bridges between islands just a few feet over Jamaica Bay with water on both sides are spectacular like nothing else I've ever seen on a commuter rail system.

dkeithtag the R32s are not only the best subway cars ever for NYC, maybe the best ever anywhere on the planet. However it’s long time for it to retire. Heard they should be totally gone by the latest around 2022.

They did give them a great sendoff, at least.

32s had some good heat, I liked operating them to far rock too

I’ve been there before I was living in a apartment. let’s just say they had a rodent infestation

I live in upstate New York, and most of the trash along the street is from the garbage trucks. Trash not compacted spills out and litters everywhere, on top of the pigs that throw stuff out th the window.

@@frothe42 • After I posted the above a year ago, we started paying more attention to those responsible for the litter problem. Know what? We noticed the people who just throw their beer cans or fast food wrappers out are a tiny part of the problem. The garbage was coming from the garbage trucks, as you described! My husband called the number on the trucks to complain. Haven’t noticed a great deal of improvement, but we’ve encouraged our neighbors to say something, too.

@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 Somehow I noticed that garbage trucks were the problem, as I thought it was people. I don't remember how I came about this, maybe from watching NYSDOT doing spring garbage pick-up brought about this epiphany.

The A is express. Late night would be impossible to see.

Galaxy the A runs fully local on late nights

R142_7120 big facts

Fifty nine stops not including GOs and other delays. Would take at least two hours. I’ve worked that detail and it’s a dog.

That's a very very long ride.

Nice Greetings from Netherlands

ah you mean because of all the cardboard houses? Sure.

@@RandomUser2401 I don’t think you understand the force of hurricanes and tornadoes.

@@NoName-ms8jb I do. And I also udnerstand the strength of properly built structures, buildings and infrastructure.

@@RandomUser2401 I doubt that. The winds in a tornado can top 200mph. The winds in a hurricane can top 150mph. EF 5 tornadoes throw 18 wheeled semis. They can throw cars for miles. The EF 5 tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in 2011 leveled the entire town, even big stores like Walmart and Home Depot. The front wall of the Home Depot collapsed. You could see the inside of the Walmart from a helicopter. There was a multi story hospital built out of concrete and steel. The top floor was ripped off and the entire hospital was shifted off its foundation. It had to be demolished and rebuilt. No sturdy concrete building that was in the path of the tornado survived. Houses are built out plywood. Some are built out of bricks. The brick houses were destroyed just as easily as the plywood houses. Many stone and concrete buildings were destroyed to. The amount of damage was 2.8 billion dollars. I’m sure your not from the us because the us happens to be the tornado capital of the world and you seem very ignorant of their immense power. People who live in countries that don’t experience many tornadoes seem to be very ignorant of them.

During Sandy my Street West 42nd Street was under 5 feet of water we were evacuated that day as I went home to Rye New York to stay with my parents as we didn't have electricity for 8 days. I applied to FEMA and they put me up at the W for 3 months directly across the street from the 911 Memorial. The an additional month at Gild Hall.

@Rockstar Game He said "FELT LIKE". IT was a joke r/wooosh

@Rockstar Game's fake Rockstar games

Hey, same same. But watching this in Berlin Germany. Whoo whoo let`s learn together.

Geo Cosme trust me it must be an illusion in nyc your can’t see your own hand in the water

It depends on the day,sometimes it looks turquoise,it is a polluted bay

Why do you capitalize every word it looks very strange

I loved riding this line as a kid in the 70's, especially to the beaches, but got spooked a couple of times getting mugged going through Broad Channel and through what used to be Hammels Wye headed into Far Rockaway.

I'd bet you'd change your mind sooner than later...

it's the longest non stop stretch on all of the subway lines... the A and D trains..from 59th to 125th st and vice versa.

Really?

It must be hell operating a subway line in the snow

I bet. It probably becomes like any other job. It just gets monotonous.

You were well paid I am sure...gratitude

There's no way you would love doing this every day...i guarantee you that.. Been doing it ( not the whole distance) for over 50 years...by circumstance, not choice.

Yeah

Do you know how long that would take

YES SIR!!

it's not a great ride if you have to take the A train every day to get downtown ...it's no fun...been doing it for over 50 years...lol

@Paris P and with a subway

As long you get to the destination you'll find it worth the wait

@@nasdaqua it is what’s wrong with you?

@@nasdaqua For me it worked out well because, back in the day, I grew up on 125th Street and Amsterdam Ave, but I went to High School in Brooklyn, so the A or D express segment from 125th St & 8th directly to 59th St & Columbus Circle saved me a lot of time both ways. But I hear you! It's no party during rush hour, which is when I hopped on.

So?

Matheo oo So what? He just wanted to put that out there. Nothing wrong with that.

I lived in arverne beach 54th street and loved the view from Brooklyn Fulton street to far Rockaway..miss ny..now a resident in Houston Texas.