I have always found abandoned places fascinating and have recently become absolutley obsessed with abandoned subway stations. Places where daily crowds once gathered day in and day out for years and years now silently rotting in the dark. Or in some cases dim spooky lighting. I have never been to NYC though oddly enough. Not in this lifetime anyway!
This particular station was never that crowded. It was built as part of the original IND 8th Avenue line that opened in 1932 but it didn’t have a clear purpose. It wasn’t even finished or tiled until the late 1950’s. It had revenue service from 1959 to 1981, as an additional platform to catch a local downtown 8th Avenue train or to take the Aqueduct Racetrack special train that started here. After the trains stopped running here in 1981, the station was used as an underpass between the upper local and express downtown platforms for while. When the mezzanine was rebuilt to connect the upper platforms, the station was fully abandoned.
It was used for rush hour E trains that ran express to Hudson Terminal then local to Lefferts, Rock park or Far Rock besides the aqueduct race track expy😊
That's The Track Thats Now Closed Off Just Before 34th street because Of The 7line Extension..Used To Be A Switch Point On The Southbound Express Track At One Time
@Al Desimone Well When The 7 Line Was Extended To 34th Street and 11th Av..Before The Train Left 42nd Street Southbound The Tunnel Has To Literally Make A Downhill Of Some Sorts Because Of The Abandoned 42nd Street lower level station..The Track Was Also In the way of the tunnel..Which Rendered It Now Useless..Crazy Enough The Track Is Still There But Like I Said It's Now Blocked Off From The Southbound A Express Track Just Before 34th Street...& They Did This A Few Years Before The 7 Was Extended To 34th Street
@@TwanK1Additionally on the southbound platform for the ACE I believe there's a service hatch that platform. Which isn't too bad but awesome to point out to people who wanna know some history.
The trains make a creepy background score! So, there's a path from one side of the 7 track to the other? Is that what the sheet metal platform @ 7:40 covers?
It was in disuse before that extension, but the 7 extension cuts right through this. This was the platform for the racetrack train to aqueduct, and apparently some E express evening trains in the 70's. Racetrack service ended in 81. Seems MTA opted to just merge every E train at 50th street and shut this off. Seems like good storage space for all those CBTC transponders now
You can make out a cinderblock wall-off across the platform part way down. Look for the scrawl “end of work zone” on the tiled wall next to the cinderblock. Those walls sandwich the 7’s tunnel across this platform.
That’s probably the 7 Train going to/from Hudson Yards. The track runs right through the old platform The platform was flawed in that there was only one way for trains to actually access it. One theory of why this platform was built at all is that the city (IND) wanted to prevent the IRT from extending the Flushing line past Times Square. Of course, after the three subway companies were merged, that was no longer a problem