Abandoned subway beneath New York

thetoethumb · 3 months

Well, whoever abandoned it forgot to turn the lights off.

wibz · 3 months

So beautiful station. It's filmed in this video: https://vimeo.com/18280328 (~3min in)

whostolemypancake · 3 months

The old Pneumatic Transit! It's still here!

dunnowins · 3 months

This is under city hall in New York. They wanted to reopen it as part of the transit museum or something and you know why they didnt? Concern about terrorist threats/bombings against city hall. It's a damn shame.

EDIT: for everyone trying to correct me and saying that its closed because the track is not suited for modern trains and all of that....yes that is true. That is why it is not used as an actual functioning train station any more. However, to address the point I made, it was going to be made a part of the NYC Transit Museum but was deemed to be a high risk location by Rudy Giuliani.

Nosher · 3 months

You want to keep it pretty - you got to keep the people out...

neatchee · 3 months

As joehouin points out in a deeper comment, this is the subway station beneath City Hall.

Why is it abandoned? Well, when the MTA (that's the Metropolitan Transit Authority for those not familiar with NYC) started rolling out the newer, longer train cars in the 70s and 80s, they found that the curvature of the track and platform at City Hall Station was too much for passengers to safely enter and exit the train cars. The gap between the platform and the car doors was very wide, and they couldn't develop an effective sliding platform like they did for some other stations (e.g. Union Square 4/5/6 platform)

As mentioned by Joehouin, if you're lucky and you ask nicely, you can sometimes get the train conductor to let you ride through City Hall Station, since the 6 train still uses the station to turn around at the end of the downtown line.

scottschism · 3 months

ghostbusters 2?

Tom_Anks · 3 months

Wiiiiiiinstooooooooon...

scotttech1 · 3 months

Ray: Mr. Mayor, we're here tonight because a psychomagnatheric slimeflow of immense proprtions is building up beneath the city. The Mayor: Psycho-what? Egon: Psychomagnatheric.

iShox · 3 months

Nope! That's the Ninja Turtles secret lair!

fuzz_le_man · 3 months

Steve Duncan: Undercity

long video, great payoff

Quimby06 · 3 months

Does this remind anyone else of Rapture from Bioshock?

OmegaRed131RGX · 3 months

It's SLIME! IT'S A RIVER OF SLIME!

ZBeebs · 3 months

Picture taken right before the CHUDs got him.

Pictoru · 3 months

here's a wonderful video of that subway (not just)

ch0och · 3 months

I'd imagine this is where steampunk kids go to masturbate.

devilsadvocated · 3 months

Looks like something out of the Bioshock series, very cool.

bclan11 · 3 months

This station is an amazing example of the the famous Guastavino vaulting. The Guastavino brothers made vaults out of thin tile and mortar with no blueprints, no support structures and no scaffolding.

http://imgur.com/4jbDl http://imgur.com/mz6f3

James-VZ · 3 months

My great uncle Donald built the transit museum in NYC and has a lot of stories about places like this. He used to hide the cars he wanted to save in these kinds of places, swapping their numbers with less important but similar cars. Very clandestine stuff that could have gotten him fired, actually.

Anyway, he's a cool guy. Here's an interview he did with the New York Times a few years back: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/sports/baseball-subway-series-tunnel-visions-subway-cars-1950-s-evoke-nostalgia-too.html

EDIT: Ohh this one is way better: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/nyregion/tunnel-vision-millions-ride-the-subway-only-a-few-dare-to-hide-it.html

beagley · 3 months

teenage mutant ninja turtles 3. that is all.

FaptainCalcon · 3 months

Where's the pink ooze?

MagicGinger · 3 months

Ghostbusters, please. This is clearly TMNT 2.

Vikko · 3 months

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half-shell Turtle power!

They're the world's most fearsome fighting team (We're really hip!) They're heroes in a half-shell and they're green (Hey - get a grip!) When the evil Shredder attacks These Turtle boys don't cut him no slack!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Splinter taught them to be ninja teens (He's a radical rat!) Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines (That's a fact, Jack!) Raphael is cool but crude (Gimme a break!) Michaelangelo is a party dude (Party!)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half shell Turtle power!

kavorka2 · 3 months

Closed in 1945 and restored as part of museum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_(IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line)

Popea1icious · 3 months

Pretty sure this was in Ninja Turtles 2.

TheZbeast · 3 months

Ah yes, the Devil's Attic.

NathanBenMoshe · 3 months

Here is a short documentary about who explores deserted NY subway stations!

JTyler82 · 3 months

The ninja turtles live there, man

resay5 · 3 months

I hear turtles with ninja skills like to inhabit these.

big_ander · 3 months

If the movie Mimic is to be believed it would be a really very bad idea to go down there.

NymN_ · 3 months

This is pretty badass to see after I just finished reading Neverwhere.

Spiffstered · 3 months

It's the City Hall stop, and you can get to it by staying on the 45 downtown brooklyn bridge stop. The subway will go past the station when changing to uptown.

buriedunderbricks · 3 months

I remember seeing a video of underground Ny, this guy goes into a bunch of places rarely seen, rarely recorded. This was one of the spots he went to. http://youtu.be/vWF3IDk9Gek

quinofking · 3 months

why does an "abandoned" subway look nicer than the subway i take everyday???

packetfire · 3 months

NOT Abandoned at all.

Just take the 6 train south, and when the announcement tells you that you have reached the last stop, stay on the train. The train goes from the modern "Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall" station, through the station pictured, the old "City Hall" station, loops around the loop, and comes back to the modern station, now facing North.

The squealing of the wheels is pretty loud, so consider earplugs. On second thought, use them everywhere in the NYC subway system!

Emerica586 · 3 months

dhoyle19 · 3 months

It was abandoned because the people that designed it made the curve of the track too sharp, causing a hideously loud screech as the train came into the station. It was so bad, people just stopped going. As a result, they closed that station. Now the only was for civilians to get there is by (illegally) walking along the tracks until they reach the station. Trains still pass through the station.

TL:DR Abandoned due to poor engineering.

mblitch · 3 months

The subway is not abandoned, but the station isn't used. Downvoted for inaccurate title. It is the city hall station at the end of an active line. Take the 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge, the last stop, but instead of getting off, stay on. The train will then loop around through this station and start heading back down the line.

zthirtytwo · 3 months

Although this one is closed, it's nice to see not all the subways here are covered in trash, and stinking of hobo piss. I wish all the subways looked this nice.

phwar13 · 3 months

Ninja Turtles

smokepoop · 3 months

Aka the ninja turtles secret lair.

Shnazzyone · 3 months

IT'S A RIVER OF SLIME!!

Brumeh · 3 months

No you have this title wrong should be "Where the Ninja Turtles Live"

ph1asco · 3 months

Master Splinter, is that you?

red_com · 3 months

Hey Artyom, Keep your eyes open.

ShitGoesDown · 3 months

NY subways are not nearly this clean, and WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE MOLE PEOPLE!?

GaryDuder · 3 months

How is there not graffiti on anything?

radardog · 3 months

I love photos like this, it makes me just want to grab some gear and go exploring.

whatsadigg · 3 months

I've seen this subway in a documentary before... Some guy goes tunneling through the abandoned Manhattan sewers and train stations. Does anyone remember the name of that doc?

sunshinevirus · 3 months

Please consider crossposting to /r/AbandonedPorn, they would love this!

SneezePee · 3 months

Andrew Wonder goes there.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWF3IDk9Gek

MrGuppies · 3 months

Oh no, who let the muggles in the New York Gringotts branch?

VicYesterday · 3 months

It's beautiful. It's like the TARDIS interior!

Bmart008 · 3 months

It's pretty, but take a look at my favorite subway station in the world, Avtovo station in St. Petersburg, Those are pillars of Crystal you see.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Metropolitain_of_Saint_Petersburg_station_Awtowo.jpg

Th3Gu35T · 3 months

just an fyi, there is an /r/abandonedporn

kvail90 · 3 months

They shut it down because of the curved platform, the gap between the subway cart and platform was too great and people fell into it constantly. One of my professors filmed part of a documentary on this. Really cool.

5ft11flip · 3 months

It reminds me of the abandoned rail terminal in Arkham City.

steakmane · 3 months

Oh! This look's like the subway that Andrew Wonder explored with his friend when they filmed "Undercity"

colossus3200 · 3 months

Glad to see the turtles are still able to afford electricity

crocodilesareforwimp · 3 months

How come this abandoned subway is so much nicer than the bandoned ones? (b.c. obviously that's the word for the opposite of abandoned)

yarrrJake · 3 months

I saw this in a Ninja Turtle movie.

Vodiodoh · 3 months

Where is the pink slime?

Art_VandelaySC · 3 months

And there's no graffiti? I'm calling bullshit.

Zerofate · 3 months

Anyone who's seen Speedgrapher knows where this is going...

metaknight95 · 3 months

RAPTURE?!

nickkbmod · 3 months

Welcome to rapture

draxor_666 · 3 months

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTXlEP7HRc&t=2m10s

WHOA DUDE

bugzrrad · 3 months

wasn't this on the front page like 2 days ago?

shivvvy · 3 months

I saw this a few days ago when I was looking up info on Lower Bay station in Toronto. City hall station is much better looking (probably because it's decommissioned and not abandoned)

Just_another_man · 3 months

Not abandoned, just not open to the public.

Na7eO · 3 months

Totally thought of Ninja Turtles and went to google it to remind myself of what their subway station looked like. Turns out, this same image comes up under the search, but their station looks similar sort of.

remdawgv · 3 months

Google steampunk scene.

conniesewer · 3 months

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