New York City Subway: IRT Lexington Avenue Line at 14th Street-Union Square 

I grew up in NYC.I started taking the subway alone since I was 12 years old whether it was to school or to my grandma's house (grandma lived in Queens and I lived in The Bronx) and taking the subway to grandmas house was a long subway ride. I had to take the 4 train from The Bronx all the way to 14th Street (this very station shown in this video) to transfer to the L train and finally at Wyckoff Ave, I would transfer to the M train to Queens to Fresh Pond Rd. I now live in Las Vegas, NV. I have been living here for 9 years now and one thing I miss the most about NYC is taking the subway to get to where I need to. For a while, living in Las Vegas, I was without a car and it killed me that in Las Vegas, their public transportation is extremely awful and outdated. I miss that whenever I wanted to go somewhere, I can just walk 3 min from my apartment and I'm already sliding ym metrocard to get into literally an underground city called the NYC subway. I like watching these videos because I can still hear the sounds I miss dearly of my previous life I had growing up in NYC. I hope you can come back one day and take more videos of the NYC subway. Perhaps you can visit some of the stops I have great memories of.

I love the glass roof on one station, the beautiful antique tile work and i found the filler platform very interesting. Great video!😉

What a beautiful day. You can pick out all the buildings and know exactly where you were filming since there weren't any leaves on tbe trees. Gorgeous, tremendous. The city really did a nice job renovating Union Square Park as well as the surrounding roads. I remember when they started that around 2000.

Your videos are top notch! I had heard if the gap fillers, but never saw them. Fun to watch and lots to learn! Thanks!

Informative footnotes are most interesting. Excellent videos make watching almost as good as being there in person. Thanks!

I love so much the voice: There is, a, Downtown, Local, 6, train, to, Brooklyn Bridge, City Hall. Approaching the station. Please stand away from the platform edge

Great video. A lot has changed for the better in the NYC Subway since I left New York in 1998. Looking forward to coming back home.

Nice views of the subway. Thanks!

Love the beautiful station entrance. Gap fillers are unique.

great video and awesome view

Thanks for upload. Useful video. Really I ♥️ it

Amazing Video! New subscriber and keep up the good work.

Gap fillers?! You guys are living in luxury! In London we'd be expected to simply fly over the gap ;-) Great video btw

Very nice documentary. I rode their predecessors on this line in the 1970s when working and going to school.

yep. when it says the train is coming in 2 min, its actually coming in 10 seconds

love your videos

Just come home from NYC. Love the city and its subway. Watching your excellent videos to get some of that holiday feeling back! I changed trains at Union Square only a few days ago. :)

@5:16 I wonder if there’s either a sensor on the gap filler....unless the conductor hits a button that’s somewhere on the wall for the gap filler to come in lol

Love these videos! The NYC subway is my favourite subway.

Put this on 20 minutes! I love it!!!!!!

Big thanks to you! I love your videos, and they are so detailed! Subscribed!

like gap filters? there actually cool! someday I'll visit!

...watch the black guy's head from 9:30 to 10:00...there isn't any music he's boppin' to lol

Lots of memories. Thanks for the captions. I use to get off at that stop 60 years ago as a child with my father. The gap fillers really fascinated me, same with the ones at South Ferry. Are they original?

The video of trains is great

Those gap fillers are the reason I NEVER wore heels on that train line when I worked downtown! *sigh* And yet, in these crazy pandemic times, your video has me missing them... excellent footage and subtitles!

Nice video!

I love the fact that the 4 train is half R142s and half R142As.

A bit of trivia about the station: before they opened that passageway (the one with those freestanding sections of subway wall) just above the downtown local track, there used to be an open catwalk connecting the north and south ends of the downtown platform! Once they opened that passageway they removed that catwalk as it was no longer needed. Up until a few years ago when they redid the mezzanine floor a patch of concrete that replaced the north end of the catwalk was still visible.

I like your idea

nice video. Gives me the NYC holiday feeling by hearing the announcement. I love it. Cant wait to visit this great city again this year

Thank you, gracia's...

I used to use this station frequently for the BMT Broadway and IRT Lexington Avenue lines when I visited my cousins apartment during the summer who lived near Union square.

0:50/ Just a few paces west of that lovely canopied entrance stands a humble statue of Mahatma Ghandi. It's probably one of the few life-sized statues of him in the world, let alone one depicting him in motion. Check it out when you have a chance...

Amazing Vid! They should really install automatic gates or doors on the moving platforms like the Jubilee Line have on the London Underground. Only problem is that is might be to cramped on the platform and the poles on the platform holding up the station roof. Liked this vid a lot! :)

Amazing vid as always!! its almost as if i was there :) I aint form US and 1 of my big wishes is to take a ride on a NY subway.

NICE

Nice post on NYC transit forums and for the R188 it has the same AC unit has the R142A which is annotated on 9:30 to 9:40 and i knew this for a fact since I have R142A (R188 convert) 7311 on January 20th around 2pm and its ac unit didn't emit the same AC unit sound as the R142 and for the IND/BMT lines the R142 can be compared to the R160A & R160B alstom due to the fact they share the same propulsion unit, but the R142A & R188 should almost be identical the R143 & new R179 cars due to their MITRAC propulsion units

The IRT platforms are the only platforms of this station to not be wheelchair-accessible. This is because the sections of the platforms that are directly below the mezzanine are too narrow to fit elevators. However, the MTA could install ramps instead. 42nd St-PABT’s platforms are more than wide enough for elevators and yet, have no elevators but ramps. So if there’s no room for elevators but ramps going in a spiral or similar can fit, they should be built instead.

Many thanx for the videos. A question on the voltage. From what I have read the NY Subway is around 600Volts DC. In the videos you talk about the sound of AC control gear. Is the DC converted to AC for the traction motors or is the noise the DC chopper control gears starting the motors?? Vove you videos of the elevated lines..

Notice that lady who looked mad in that train at 5:25? She was not really patient there.

Very good reportage, high level! But...So many words of admiration: beautiful, beautiful... I wonder what you would say about the Moscow metro?

NOW I hear the difference between the R142, R143, and the R188. Its a slight difference but you can still hear it

i love me some NY !!!

at 6:57 why it said that it suppose to say that line when it getting to the Bronx it suppose to say "This is an Bronx bound 6 Local train"

R142A is music to my ears when ut accelerates

Wow! Clean stations and no graffiti on the trains.

R142A 6 train those were the days

3:44 your reflection

I dont know if you have ever been to the Bay Area Near San Francisco, but they have a train system there called BART whicjh stands for Bay Area Rapid Transit, and I was just wondering If i may ask you, during the real commute times when everybody goes to work in the morning and when everybody gets off of work in the afternoon or evening, ours here actually added cars to the train to make them longer and add more seating for all of those people even though it never really matters anyway only because almost all of the seats will be usually taken and the other people willhave to stand and hold on to the overhead bars that the have that go the length of the cars, does the NYC Subway do the same thing as well, meaning do they add extra cars to the trains to make more available seating or whatever??????

Why are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 the only lines with announcements and countdown clocks? I know that newer technology was used on the L and the MTA is working on the other lettered lines, but why did 1-6 have it first? Does it have to do with the IRT?

I live in brooklyn for my whole life and now i'm a Twenty and i'm by myself so now I live in Harlem 148st

Why don't the gap fillers retract before the train leaves?

*RUN MOM, RUN!*

I miss the R142A on the 6

I wonder if they’d be able to add those gap fillers to the City Hall station and open it back up.

1:20 lol

How come I never seen the 6 train look like that?

Uh The 6 Train Is A Bronx Bound But The 4 And 5 Is Also Bronx But They Go Different Directions In Bronx Btw Like Your Video

How do they know when the gap fillers are in

(4) Train To Woodlawn The Bronx (5) Train To Eastchester Dyre Ave The Bronx (6) And Train To Pelham Bay Park♿ Or Parkchester The Bronx Downtown (4) Train To Crown Heights Utica Ave Brooklyn ♿ (5) Train To Flatbush Ave Brooklyn College Brooklyn ♿ (6) Train To Brooklyn Bridge City Hall Manhattan ♿

. . . where the 'Luft' gets Schlonged!

Dude that is a lot of people in a train look like a rush hour

I've never heard of gap fillers. People can't simply step over the gap onto the train? What will they think of next?

Ich möchte gerne diese nysubway als Modellbausatz kaufen wo bitteschön bekommt man das zu kaufen??? Danke im voraus.

uu should try coming and recording in Washington DC

you know this video is old when you see 6 trains running r142As'

Can you do buher AVE 6 line

7:01 That driver was not in the wrong. Had I been a passenger I would've been like cool, cuz some drivers are slow as hell.

You know how hard it is to get delivery in the subway??

What happened to all of the graffiti that used to be on the subway trains??

R142a 6 train

BMT platforms are better the IRT ones are so tight and loud because of the exposed middle track

3:41 Was That A R142 4 Train?

omg R188 6 train

take that subway every day, definitely gets old lol

What train model makes that noise at around 4:00?

O melhor metrô do mundo é o de São Paulo. como as linhas: 1 azul, 2 verde e 3 vermelha. Cada trens dessas linhas passa em 30 segundos

Mr 7 train boys where is N Q R platform

Subway train every day

You must've lost a bit of hearing after filming the station, it gets incredibly ear piercingly loud just standing on the platform as the train comes, especially when both uptown and downtown trains arrive at the same time.

GET IN THE TRAIN

cup in 9:20

i love you USA

i'am 6!

Your stations need a good scrub down.

I learned my lesson to never wait at Union Square for a downtown express train because of the uptown express. They’re the most noisiest

4:47

Alive

Subtitles are to fast

doesn't make sense why the gap fillers wouldn't just be automatically retracted before train too off... so train acceleration would be unhindered?!

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Uptown The Bronx Platform Bronx Bound 4 And 5 Express Train Next Stop Is Grand Central 42nd St ♿ Bronx Bound 6 Train Next Stop Is 23rd St♿ Downtown Brooklyn Platform Brooklyn Bound 4 And 5 Express Train Next Stop Is Brooklyn Bridge City Hall ♿ Bowling Bound 5 Express Train Next Stop Is Brooklyn Bridge City Hall ♿ Brooklyn Bridge Bound 6 Train Next Stop Is Astor Place

5:21 WTF

1:09 2:44

Ok then AHH 2:12

6:45 it is not in the bronx yet

Glad I live in a small town. Never have ridden a subway, never will

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Почему так криво идут пути? и платформа. Да , наше метро красивее, но многолюднее.