Abandoned NYC Subway Stations and Platforms 

You did a fantastic job. The music was creepy but fit with abandoned stations atmosphere. The pictures were good. Maybe wish I can see a little more of City Hall Lower Level on the BMT Broadway Line. However still amazing.

Today it shows 1.6k....youtube CANNOT count!

jdspreest I like it. I guess I'm into weird sci Fi things .

Ikr! Just imagine hearing that when you discover an abandoned train station. It’s scary as hell.

is hoyt schermerhorn one of these?

Yes,that sounds like a ghost train in the tunnel

Okay if I was walking down in the subway system in the middle of the night heard this I was literally shit my pants. It likes like creepy children in a graveyard. However, I do like it for this video.

Thanks, looking forward to checking out more music by this artist!

Wow, thank you for sharing that info!

you are amazing

some serious research/history here; as another subway buff, thanx much for the info!

Why wasn't South 4th Street Station never completed? I mean, the great depression is long gone.

Lol

How did you get out

Irma Vera Fucking dumbass, bro he used the stations when they were open!

Cornelius White if you’re talking about the lower level then ur wrong.

You must have lived in an alternate universe because the lower level of Nevins Street station was never completed and never used. The upper level station has been in continuous use since the line opened in 1908.

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Because trains would be crashing into one another. Most were voted off to make way for more efficient lines/stations to open up.

The closed stations were all closed for valid reasons and will probably never be reopened for revenue service. The closed stations on the IRT lines (City Hall, 18th Street, Worth Street and 91st Street) were all original 1904 IRT local stations and were in full use, but as time passed, the express stations located nearby were lengthened, rendering those stations useless because people would rather use express stations than local stations. They closed one by one - City Hall in 1945, 18th Street in 1948, 91st Street in 1959 and Worth Street in 1962. Other stations, such as Myrtle Avenue BMT station in Brooklyn, were closed due to expansion of trackage. Other stations are in service but have closed levels - these include Bergen Street and 42nd Street/8th Avenue on the IND and Nevins Street, City Hall and Chambers Street on the BMT. These were closed due to service pattern changes that eliminated the need to operate those platforms. Still other stations, like South 4th Street and Roosevelt Avenue upper level, were never completed and thus never used because of design changes in the lines.

@@mitch4527 I wish this comment was pinned.

There’s no good reason to even open it since it’s so close to city hall and will just force the 4 and 5 to make another lower Manhattan stop

​@@mitch4527also, the 7 uses part of the lower level tracks of 42nd St

Ronny Arias Ikr

Kyle the music

Woooow so scary aaahh I’m going to shit my pants👻

@@rosalbasoto8626 who is Kyle

Sounds like your dad was pulling your leg

She will be like AAAHHHHHH!!!!!

Oh hell no

Where do you remember them from? Were you down there, once they had been abandoned?

Nevins LL Is scary

Why?

IIRC the lower level was used in the first Crocodile Dundee movie

@@joestrike8537 yes it was. They sealed up the entrance so there’s no way to get down there.

I remember when a few transit workers said when they were down there that it sounded busy like people were down there.

What exactly does the shutter do, I’m interested in cameras and willing to know more and always wonder how a camera can make something not going very fast look like a blur while everything else is still focused on if you get what I mean, thanks for sharing ^^

@@Lona_444 the shutter is the “eye” of the camera. It opens and closes to allow light and the image into the camera-which it achieved digitally at this point. The cameras with more features (sports for example), have those extra long lenses and everything adjustable so the photo looks like the camera man was inches away from the players. In extremely dark conditions (underground for example), you would need to adjust the shuttle to delay and use a tripod plus a remote shutter trigger because your hands will never be steady enough. Even the slightest movement will cause your photo to come out blurry. Most simple cameras (yes, including most cell phones) have a fixed shutter. That means the shutter opens and closes at a fixed speed (1/100 of a second, etc) which is why your night photos come out grainy. Some cell phones have recent upgrades to keep the shutter open longer in dark conditions however, the ISO (film speed-or in this case, maximum capacity of the electronics), remains the same and the photo still comes out grainy.

Because it was used in Harry pottwr

It was also used in TMNT

What does that have to do with the closing of half of 42nd street

SayNo oh okay

SayNo fuck you

@SayNo then what the v service is turned into m?

It’s more creepy at 25% slower speed.

WOW THATS SCARIER THAN 7:19!!!!

Orion Cottrell, yeah that’s 91st Street alright

Ghost Train Wooshing Away As the Flash

That looks like something for a rated R movie

ITS THE 6 HEVEN TRAIN TO THE CLOUDS

Most of them are not actually haunted, except for one.. city hall. It is not 100 confirmed, but if you had decided to record, you would hear whispering voices as a result when hearing the audio. I know. It’s quite scary, but it’s funny when you show your friends and see the look on their faces lmao.

How about Worth Street?

I don’t know. There hasn’t been concrete evidence that ghost lie in the worth street station, but it could be a possibility since it’s been abandoned for 56 years now

@@veecudi I'm definitely confirming that City Hall has to be haunted because of the many people who died by falling in between the tracks and getting shocked by the third rail or getting squished under the train. Tragic.

7:19 CONFIRMED south 4th street is haunted

really... never noticed that lol

There’s several reasons. 1. Close Proximity - when platforms are lengthened to accommodate more cars, stations that are too close to each other are forced to close 2. Entrances nearby- entrances near some stations force a station to close 3: Termination of lines: some lines are retired causing some stations to close if they serve only those lines

The lower level was never completed

wait this exists too?

As of mid 2018 after the crark street tunnel repairs.

lol

Ahhhhhh scared me

Yea, I saw the film. Love how they used the 9th Avenue lower level for that scene in Joker where Arthur guns down those Wall Street Yuppies.

Deaddrop Maxis most are closed down for good

First, there is a difference between "unused" and "abandoned" in the MTA world. "Unused" usually means that the facility is closed to revenue service but is used for other MTA purposes. The City Hall IRT station is an example of this - the station is closed to revenue service but the track is in full use to turn around Lexington Avenue local (6) trains from south to north. City Hall still gets a lot of maintenance even if you don't see it. An "abandoned" station means that it is completely shut down and closed, and left to the elements to destroy. 18th Street on the IRT is a good example of that. Second, you need to understand why these facilities were closed in the first place. Building subway stations and platforms is a very expensive proposition and they are only constructed if there is a need. They are also expensive to maintain and man - there is lighting involved and booth personnel as well as police. The MTA doesn't want to spend money maintaining a station it doesn't need anymore. The NYC Subway is very old and was designed over 115 years ago. Obviously transit needs have changed over that time. The original IRT station platforms were very short (only held 5 cars). As more and more people started to use the subway, the platforms had to be lengthened so that longer trains could be run and more passengers accommodated. Some of the original stations were express/local stations and some were local only. Passengers used the express/local stations much more heavily so those stations' platforms were lengthened first. Unfortunately, when the express/local station platforms were lengthened, the stations ended up being very close to some local stations. For example, when 14th Street on the IRT was lengthened northward in 1948, the new platform stretched as far as 16th Street. Since 16th Street is only two city blocks north of 18th Street station (a very short distance), there was no longer a need for an 18th Street station. As such, the Board of Transportation (the forerunner of the TA and MTA) decided to close it to save power and costs. The same is true of every closed station all over the system - they were necessary when they were originally designed and opened but as time passed and transit needs changed, they were deemed obsolete and shut. And the MTA is very unlikely to renovate and reopen closed stations just for the sake of railfans - doing so would increase costs (lighting, et al) and there is also the specter of terrorism. About 20 years ago, the NYC Transit Museum announced that the IRT City Hall station would be reopening as an adjunct of the Transit Museum in Brooklyn. Mayor Giuliani understandably killed that plan in 1998, citing terrorism fears - a terrorist could get in there and plant a bomb.

paktype their is one thing that MTA didn't do like if they want to close a station why they still leave the lights on that they should know they are wasting there electric bill.

Because there lazy

That wont happen.

There are many reasons as to why the stations closed. For City Hall, it closed in 1945 due to its proximity to Brooklyn Bridge station as well as being too short to accommodate 10-car trains. It has since then been used to loop (6) line trains around to the opposite platform. 18th Street, 91st Street, and Worth Street closed in 1948, 1959, and 1962 respectively due to the same reasons after the stations they were adjacent to were expanded. Worth Street was too also too close to Brooklyn Bridge, but was also too close to Canal Street as well, while 18th Street (Lexington Avenue line) had a proximity between 14th Street - Union Square and 23rd Street. For 91st Street, it was too close to 96th Street and 86th Street. Nevins Street was supposed to have had a platform accommodating IRT trains crossing over the Manhattan bridge, however only the shell was completed, and construction ended up getting cancelled. South 4th Street was a part of the IND second system. Construction was halted and subsequently cancelled due to the Great Depression. The lower-level platform of 9th Street on the West End line closed in 1975 after the Culver Shuttle was discontinued. The inner platform of South Ferry would suffer the same fate 2 years later in ‘77 after the shuttle there had also closed. The original Northbound platforms of Bowery and Canal Street on the J/Z trains were closed, most likely because they were unnecessary for passenger use. They’re now used as a filming location or for police terrorist drills. In some cases such as during construction or NYPD activity, they can be used for J/Z trains to skip these stations. I have no clue if there are any myths surrounding these stations, but I can look some up if you’re interested!

Na there are no ghosts in the abandoned stations and platforms. But you are right about them being scary and creepy, especially the closed platform at Canal St, it’s half dark and spooky 😢 and Nevins St Lower level is too.

@@VinceHere98 On the other hand, the 18th Street station on the 7th Avenue IRT line (where the #1 train runs) is still in service. My guess/suspicion is the neighborhood fought and succeded to keep the station open.

​@xoxomaya90 I remember hearing about when a few MTA transit workers said that they were spooked when they were in the City Hall subway station and how it sounded busy like there were people down there and.

R62 Productions nice one

The new south ferry station is open. The old one is still closed

There is a way to Nevins street as the tunnels that were dug are still there. Im not sure where they are

There's a way to get to city hall lower level when you see these tracks in the middle in canal street jump into the tunnels and walk on the middle tracks and then it leads down to the city hall lower level platforms

@@wieslaw9834 thanks for letting me know, i thought it was impossible to get there since no 1 explained how they got their

Fredbearcorn25 for city hall take the 4 to last too and stay on it will loop around trough city hall

@@wjejwjje9493 ty for letting me know. But I hav been there before along with knowing how else to see it.

The MTA has barely any surveillance in these stations because it would be a waste of expense but people are able to enter some of these stations by either traversing the tracks or by simply finding other ways down. Currently it is harder to enter these stations because of recent regulations imposed on trains due to the Brooklyn subway shooting.

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When the 6 train reaches the last stop which is the Brooklyn bridge station, you have to stay on the train Don’t get off. The train has to wrap around the city hall loop to go back Uptown to Pelham park in the Bronx.

@@angkarbasil what is chrime

What happens if you get of the train

Sure is

@@BCSBalintCrowStella probably an old rail line worker from a long time ago....

​@@NVC1019thats creepy

@@TVA746 do you know what year the rail line opened?

​@@NVC1019yes 1916

Am down , when we out?

AZprod. I’m dead serious I’ll walk right through the tracks if someone comes with me we can record the whole thing

i know. i was going to fix it though.

YoImShepard Ok

Liar. He spelt it correctly. Check the name again before you make accusations

9th st? It’s 9th av

Same

I live next to that stop, care to explain what's up with it?

Under 174th street in Manhattan is a small train yard, and is where the C train goes after the last stop at 168th, unless it's going straight to the 207th St yards.

Ok

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Was it “worth” making a terrible pun??

Was it “worth” you making fun of a 11 year old?

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Matt Guy they actually did.

This was an old photographic camera, it flashes when it took a photo, the flash was really bright, the photo was probably taken 30 or 40 years ago...

That one to me looks like the abandoned tunnel they used in Ghostbusters 2. Same tiles it looks like. The Pneumatic transit tunnel scene. Or at least the inspiration for it...

Inner loop of south ferry was once used for bowling green south ferry shuttle trains