The Abandoned Canal St Platform 

I like urban exploring but it always brings on a feeling of sadness in me. I know what effort and expense it took to construct those stations and to see the neglect and waste gets me every time...Show me more....No use avoiding sad reality...Well done video...

Oh my God you literally explored every single area within the abandoned platform and mezzanine. Amazing job, I think out of every video out there, you have the best footage of the station

By the way, the $1.50 subway fare was in effect from late 1995 to mid 2003. The abandonment of the platform and mezzanine took place in 2004.

You captured the old Canal St station platform and the surrounding areas very well. I see this stuff and think of all the lives that passed through there over the decades. Great job!

So sad to see MTA incompetence of abandoning a station without finding a use for it.

I was kinda waiting for an insane bum to come running at you with a two-by-for from some unexpected angle. just like condemned criminal origins. Great footage, very atmospheric!

Brings me back to the 80's This station was in a bad area and that stations always smells urine 24/7.

this video really makes me appreciate how iconic and marvelous the new york city subway system is

I was walking on X street yesterday and the door shown at 8:58 was wide open! My friend I went down cuz we thought maybe it was some super hip club lol! We only went down a little bit and quickly became terrified. All the lights were red. We climbed back up , and some girls on the street asked us what was down there and we said “we don’t know but it’s horrifying!” We left and the door was still wide open!

Jesus this whole abandoned platform and mezzanine are straight up terrifying Nice video without any shaking or annoying kids talking

Hands down the best video of the abandoed platform. I still dont understand why the celling is so low where the abandoned token booth is located, I'm 5'8 and I had to duck the whole time in that area. The celing had these concrete icicles hanging everywhere.

Abandoned or not, don’t test your fate walking on or placing your feet underneath the third rail. ( People tend to do stupid things at time’s)😏 but other then that? Great video✊🏽

Love this, so eerie yet so cool. Hoping y’all will visit more stations

Best exploration of Canal Street I've seen so far, well done. Too bad you didn't go into that door around 10:30. Back in the day there used to be two staircases leading up to the platform level from the lower mezzanine, with the one inside that room slabbed over a long time ago, but perhaps the bottom of it still exists. However, that room did look rather nasty (with most likely a matching smell) so probably not worth it. All in all, you can still make out the nice decoration and tiles this station once had.

Why are the lights always on on these abandoned stations?

This canal street platform has been abandoned for 30 years and the mta won’t make this the late night m train terminal station because it’s inefficient.

This video seems surreal.. The fact that this just lingers with no initiative is kinda crazy. I believe they are aware of the decay but just let it be. The passivity of the city sometimes is woah.

Love the teal pillars and the tile, You can definitely see the full beauty of the 20th century!

This is giving me Michael Jackson's "bad" video vibes 😍😍😍

Amazing video!! Thank you for the showcase and glad you guys were safe!!

With everyone screaming for Green Transportation you would think the subway system would be the city's greatest asset it breaks my heart to see stations looking like this today's New York City sucks

If anyone asks what line is this this the BMT Nassau Street Line (J),(Z) and Brown (M)

Man that’s really cool! I’ve never been to NYC but I’d love to go just to see the subways and the abandoned areas.

The city has more abandoned stations then in use.

I'm gonna guess that this was abandoned, in 2005 after 1) The southbound platform of the J/M/Z line was renovated, linking both directions on the same platform, and 2) the 20-year completion of the renovation of the Manhattan Bridge, to which the connecting Broadway line (N, R, Q) uses. I remember this platform very well.....!

It's so amazing how much abandoned stations are hitting in New York City awesome job exploring the abandoned stations just don't get in trouble by the NYPD if they catch you down there I think it's illegal but it's amazing.

I’m amazed these abandoned stations still have powered lighting. Perhaps they can’t cut the power without affecting other stations on the line?

I like how the uploader warned the viewers not to visit places like this as if its some fallout 4 location, Sounds like an adventure to me

@12:00 at least you knew when the station was functional … not too long when tokens where $1.50

Amazing. Video had a very "backrooms" feel to it. Perhaps a bit too much attention to all the graffiti, but that's my only issue with it. Glad to see the sign explaining what trains were once involved in this section. I would be curious to know if anyone can answer, as I no longer live in NYC, what line is still operational on the other side of the wall that we see? And did you have to go through the hole to get from the active to abandoned section? Again, well done overall and thanks for sharing.

6:23 that area is slightly neglected and flooded

How many movies were filmed down here? Beat Street, The Wiz, Ghostbusters 2, the list goes on...

It was open back in 2002...but don't know when they close it...

One would think tho that there would be much higher caliber graffiti considering how unlikely you'd be to get busted there. Meanwhile I've seen some amazing work that looked impossible to get to and very exposed on the freeways here in CA

9:50 etc is that trench meant to house an escalator? \m/

Would’ve been more eerie if there was like an abandoned slant or something

I think this place is full of ghosts.. So spooky!!.. Great video, Congrats...

I used to work in lower Manhattan and used this station, this very platform, regularly. Very sad to see how dilapidated it has become. I’m sure the corresponding abandoned platform at Bowery, the next station north, is about the same. When you think about how much work went into the construction of this station, mostly by immigrant labor in the 1910’s, it’s really a shame to see it all fall apart.

I remember thinking how the Canal Street station is such an amazing labyrinth of train tunnels, passageways… who knows how,any levels from street to the deepest tunnel…

There used to be an entrance on the NE corner of Canal and Centre streets to access the Queens bound M. I remember the staircase leading to that brick token booth years ago.

Why do they even keep the lights on?

Excellent walk. I haven't been down there since 1998 and remember closing that token booth and slabbing the sidewalk over. Devil's Advocate was filmed there with Keanu Reeves just before it was permanently closed.

Would've been so much creepier if the power was out. Also not sure why they're still wasting power on an abandoned station.

12:17 Ominous sign

Привет из Россия! Как я люблю смотреть Нью Йорик метро тоннель подземный! По больше снимать видео друг!

Y’all got balls to go in them halls

I remember this platform when I was younger.

How do you get in there???????????????

Been there before a looonnngggg time ago. But like, how did you NOT get caught? Apparently there’s motion sensors now? 🤨

why must we spray paint everywhere. so sad

Bro where is that i wanna go

Glad y’all showing this

Thanks for this please make more videos they are awesome!

When i was a kids and with my mom this Canal St Platform was in use :)

fire ass vidd 💯💯

Que mal que hagan vandalismo en lugar de un video de exploración urbana de calidad.

So these places are abandoned yet have power and the lights still work after al this time?

What does it smell like in there?

Great Video

This is the best Canal Street video I have seen

What kind of stalagmites are dropping fron the ceiling at 11.30 ?

Yeah, this looks the setting for a scary movie.

This is some Jacob's Ladder ish right here, wild.

What a shame.

Loved the exploration, not a fan of the graffiti though.

Be so much better without the lame tags

Truly sad to see it like this.

Reminds me of the movie Ghost when he sees his first Ghost in the subway.

I know sometimes the MTA cleans those abandoned sides up but looking at another video I've seen of that station, it does look like someone was going at it graffiting the walls insanely. As for the closet and some of the stairwells, very well knowing there should be a door or exit that leads to the active side, the MTA likely puts anything they have to remove from the active side on the abandoned side. It's like if someone ended up dying, they will have to put the body bag in the storage closet until it gets picked up.. But i wouldn't be surprised if some of the other mess was related to homeless people at one point but seeing how the station must not have active heat on that side, they didn't wanna stay.

Somehow I was expected to see some giant rats crawling around, but I guess they learn to avoid any and all light sources!

Would love to see an abandonded station like this. Shame about all the awful looking graffiti, would look much better without.

Love that you ended it on "Jesus saves" that dude is everywhere

did u walk from bowery or jus go around from the end of the platform?

Why was it abandoned? Do trains still travel on the far side track?

$1.50 tokens, that's late 90's. I'm surprised they still have the lights on in there.

When Tokens were 1.50 I remember that.

This looks like the abandoned station of the J, Z, and M trains.

Nice Find Buddy Bless Up

I hear the spray can sound 💯🙌🏼

What the purpose of graffitiing a wall if no one would see your graffiti artwork???? Anyway nice video

Wow. I never seen this before. Is this the N and R line?

I always wonder why did they shut down the southbound side of the Nassau street line and only use the uptown side of the Nassau street line? It seemes they only use all 4 tracks from Chambers street on South

It’s funny because when you go up the emergency escalator towards the exit, you can hear those stupid toy robots and frogs they sell near by hahahaha lololol

Why was it closed?

Condemned: Criminal Origins

Excellent work

wait if there abandoned why is the lights on btw i live london so i wouldnt know lol

Wow thanks for sharing. I didn't know 😕

*Many of the functioning stations look exactly the same.*

Why was this abandoned?

You guys playing Max Payne irl

This is so creepy

Did they use to have an escalator to go up

Why don't they allow ppl who are homeless to have little places down there? I know it's not great, but it's dry, it's off of the street and they're not using the space. All they'd have to do is put metal bars and boards to make sure there's no access to the running trains.

This is so crazy to me. That that is all abandoned!!!

wow that station is soo nasty and sick and disgusting unbelievable

1:20 Imagine Jakob Kessler watching this video after all these years hahaha

Tokens! 1.50 . I'm guessing 1990

The MTA wastes so much energy leaving those lights on for no reason. Very Odd.

so abandoned the rats moved out. Great footage.