Inside New York's WORST Subway Stations!
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Does the City/MTA/NYDepartment of Transportation even care if you send them this video? Make this the first thing that the mayor sees after the elections. I really wish these stations were like the Stockholm stations or even the old Soviet stations in Eastern Europe.
I think so!!! I’m not a frequent subway user but I’ve heard some of the craziest stories from the sketchiest parts of the subway.........., there’s an abandoned chamber of old machinery where people can still get in, as well as some weird old abandoned restrooms that used to be bathrooms in the 70’s, there tunnels too, I think you need to do a revisit with some urban experts Jonathan, but BE CAREFUL, even though people have fun in there, there’s also a lot bad things happening
You guys skipped E 42nd when getting on the 7 train between Grand Central and Times Square. There are HUGE "blankets" of mold stained lead paint chips dangling around. Pretty sure I got some lead in my system from years of commuting back and forth on that station
6 Line Hunts Point the smell of urine was so foul I nearly puked. Maybe they cleaned it up. Right!
Elmhurst Ave in Queens on the R and M. Not the absolute worst but I would put in the top 25. I advise exploring bothe exit ends though to get the full ugliness of it.
As someone who grew up in Moscow and used Moscow subway extensively for years, I could not believe my eyes when I saw this. There's absolutely no excuse for any station to look this bad, ever.
As someone who lives in NYC, I can assure there have been plenty of excuses over the years.
What's it like there
The excuse is that it’s in NYC
@@itsDjjayy Moscow metro is a far different world from these.
@desert789 london has probably one of the best trains. they are *_mostly_* clean
After watching this video is not so hard to believe that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are based on real events.
Someone did a walkthrough of the exact station where April gets ambushed by the Foot in the 1990 film. Can't remember what station it was...but 30 years later, some of the imperfections, cracks, etc. matched up perfectly.
As someone who took the subway several times in Paris and in London, I've never seen stations looking so bad and these two cities are already far from having perfectly clean stations
This… I thought the tube was bad…
Diversity is our strength¬
London's Tube was also in a state of disrepair like this during the 80s/90s. Then in the late 90s through to the late 2010s, the Tube was restored and now it looks very nice and the trains are very clean again. Just a little bit of commitment and these stations could really be in such good condition. But politicians in the US won't fund in rail because they can't drive their flashy cars on it.
And because they want to bomb every country on earth
Ahhh New York.... The City That Never "Sweeps!"
hahahah
Lol
Spot on.
😂 good one
Clever!
You know the funniest thing about the subway stations is that they look so bad but they have the nerve to have brand new screens for the strap hangers to see advertisements. Instead of using the money in fixing some of these stations 🤷🏽♀️
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
Welcome to the future!
They've actually renovated a lot of stations and are continuing to
The advertisers pay for that, not MTA money
Diversity is our strength¬
In Stockholm, there is an abandoned metro station called ”Kymlinge”. The original plan was to build an entire commercial / office area with a metro station. Due to environmental issues, the plans was cancelled. The station was built though everyone knew it would not open. Well, they actually only built the concrete construction, not adding any details like tiles and signs etc. It has been abandoned since the early 1970’s, and it still looks better than these stations.
caused by black/puerto ricans/hispanics/hippies and also... mass immigration of the 1960s.
Diversity is our strength¬
gotta say, i love your videos on the city, very informative and super helpful. thanks a bunch!
As a New Yorker, this is utterly pathetic and embarrassing. How can our public transit be this disgraceful considering how rich our city / country are?
Corruption. I can’t really put a finger on it and say I found the answer. But it’s interesting how there are skyscraper sized condos getting built like it’s jenga and unfinished everyday, yet the subways looks like this.
Because the rich and the politicians have absolutely gutted all the finances what do you expect, the entire country is infrastructure is collapsing, I'm so happy I didn't have kids I'm 37 and hopefully I won't be here when everything hits the fan, good luck with your future kids we left you a hell on Earth sorry it wasn't me I've been telling people for years
Who nose
Rich folks these days don't believe in public investment.
It would probably take 5-6 billion dollars to put all the wrongs right and bring the New York metro up to world class standards. Maybe a little more. But, in the US they'd rather spend that money on yet another aircraft carrier!
I took TWO showers after watching this video 🤢
I took THREE
The look really bad
I too have that problem
@@vivekvaikkattil9958 I haven’t showered in four days
> 2:24 < showers
Chambers Street was my first subway ride in New York City! I moved to New York for college after graduating from high school near Seoul, South Korea. As in, I am used to subways where you don't usually even see the trains because they're behind tinted glass screens that double as sliding doors. The stations smell a little damp, but mostly like nothing, with hints of cleaning products. Then I am faced with Chambers Street.
I like to imagine that the reason why the subways look like that is because superheroes, villains, cryptids and/or supernatural beings battle out there at night and constantly trash the place so they gave up on repairing it.
That makes sense. Maybe Marvel should make a movie about captain America fixing the subway instead of fighting some generic super villain
That tunnel at 191st is seriously frightening. I'd hate to be a woman walking down that tunnel alone, especially at night. No one would hear your screams and by the time they got to you it's too late. Any station that requires you to go down multiple levels to the track is scary and like you said, hot, hot, hot! I love it when you guys team up!
Lol it used to be worse. All the lights were broken for years! It was really bad in the 90s.
I think that is the station, I would walk up the hill via the street and go directly into the station. Not sure, I may be confusing it with 181
Yeah like dudes can't get killed in the same tunnel either🤨
@@thesharinganknight9859 womp womp
@@thesharinganknight9859 you need to accept the statistics my friend...
From the roads to the subways, NYC is a super old city and it’s showing these days. It’s beyond me why the city is throwing billions on random skyscrapers that are super flashy and floating island parks when they should be throwing billions on modernization of 100 year structures
Brings up a nice point ☝🏻 little island was privately funded as are many of the observation decks. That being said I agree these places need facelifts
Very few buildings are built by the state government anymore, pretty much all are handled between companies. It's hard to say if the subway was privatized, it'd be better. It was initially but there were too many issues since the companies were not working together. They would also likely charge far more, probably charge per stop (each stop = $0.50 or something), which disproportionately hurts poorer people who can't afford to live where most of the jobs are concentrated in Manhattan, while the way it is now, $2.75 can get you from one end of the city to the other, though that is a bit much for 1 or 2 stops.
It’s almost like we should’ve taken the trillions we wasted on the Afghan war and invested it in infrastructure instead
@@eddiew2325 Or the trillions we've wasted on a war on drugs that can't be won.
The city isn't spending money on skyscrapers, PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS are. The city (as well as the state government) is totally incompetent and wastes every penny that it takes from taxpayers. For instance, NYC spends roughly $50,000 per homeless person annually, yet the city is still overrun with homeless drug addicts and mentally insane people who attack random people on the streets. Likewise the MTA has a much higher budget than larger systems (e.g. in Beijing, Shanghai, and Moscow) yet offers a horrible product in comparison to those cities.
Throwing money at a wasteful government will not help. We've tried that a million times. Probably the only solution to make the NY subway not horrible would be to privatize it... but that will never happen
(Fun fact: the NYC subway was originally built by private companies; the city only took it over in the 1950s, which is around the point when the subway started to go massively downhill)
I went on holiday in NYC in 2018 and when I returned to London, the moment I hit the London Underground again, I felt like kissing the floor. Its just the best.
we need a pt 2. So fascinating, this epi is hilarious lol.
Diversity is our strength
I would wear masks in those subway stations even without a pandemic LOL
Be surprised but many people just don't follow the mandate. Probably about 10% of riders, literally no one enforces the rule.
So much difference between Asians and Americans. We, as Asians, we embrace wearing masks here and it's a culture. Whether in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc. You can see masks everywhere. Metro trains are still at full capacity but passengers are on masks.
@@bryx170 And it's still not preventing cases, those countries had the worst outbreaks yet despite you all being perfect maskers. China doesn't count it's almost a certainty they are lying
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv UK has a worse covid problem than Japan, the Japanese wear masks much more. Coincidence??
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv of course there won’t be a 100% case prevention, but it does help. they control it much better than like the uk or usa
Chambers Street is more or less an abandoned station that never closed. The station is incomplete; it ran trains on the Manhattan Bridge before the Chrystie Street Connection was completed. That door leads to a tower that was probably closed around the same time that the Manhattan Bridge tracks were disconnected.
Yea was gonna say the same thing. Definitely a tower for the interlocking north of Chambers. The switches are locked.
*News Flash* All democratic ran cities look like this!!
If anyone knows, these stations are located in the Asians community
If anyone knows, these stations are located in the Asians community
@@michaeljohn9263 wrong so your saying Cleveland does and Chicago clearly your one of those fake ass trump supporters who never know what they talking feel me
Great video. By the way you are ROCKING in the hightop Converse All-Stars! Nice footwear!
I used to live in nyc and I specifically remember the eerie/unsafe feeling I always felt at Chambers Street station. I feel like it's been severely neglected
What has always shocked the hell out of me is how fast things can turn bad in NYC. It seems like one day they renovate something or pave a street or open a new facility and you go back there a month later and it looks like who did it and ran.
Bad people create bad places.
It's the winter, the freeze thaw cycle and salt take a toll on everything. I didn't think NY roads were so bad (at least compared to PA, their roads SUCK) but I was SHOCKED at how good roads were in the Carolinas
Agreed, it's hard to keep places clean if the people don't respect it and take care of it. Makes it very expensive as well.
I was in NYC in 2015. The subways have deteriorated substantially.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv They don't get ice and snow
From someone born and raised in NYC,
this is so normal. You almost feel like every station looks like those stations, since the MTA train stations in general are extremely unclean, disgusting and rat infested. I literally spend dough taking taxis rather than spend a simple $2.75. For me, $2.75 is not worth the uncleanliness or the harassment from crazy people. I’m so over my city😩
those areas look charming though...its just real. its not a theme park.
@@eduardochavacano Not charming when you’re actually using them daily. Quite unsanitary and invasive actually. Maybe to tourists it’s a different experience. Of course they’re not a theme park, any daily transporter would know that.
Lol u soft
@@liamsimpson8233 yes I am 😩👍
Same bro I’m from NYC too and this is all normal to me
Love your videos.
Watching videos like this makes me happy and fortunate that I left there many years ago
I went to NYC for the very first time last week I was Shocked by how the train stations are there! I wasn't expecting that AT ALL. And I say that because I know what neglect means coming from a poor country like Brazil, but even down here train stations would NEVER look like this. Topless strange dudes wandering around... didn't feel safe either... And I couldn't find ANY not a single Subway staff
Meanwhile in China, there subway stations are almost like the future of transportation
They are homeless people. Where else would they go that is nice and warm and open 24 hours?
Damn Pakistan don't seem that bad 💀
@@cli9943 even beggars in South Asian don't walk around naked
@@hualian_baru r u serious it's my dream to live there 😍
Compared to the Moscow subway system, or really almost any other system worldwide, NYC’s subway is a sewer with train tracks. Totally embarrassing.
The MTA doesn't exist to provide the public with good transportation. It exists to give cushy 6-figure jobs to unionized government employees.
That's the sad reality.
The subway system in Rome wasn't a dream
The subway system in Mexico City is much better and consistent as well
I used to watch videos about the subways around the world, and when I saw a video of a subway station in Moscow I thought it was a museum. It looked so clean you can probably eat off the platform in that particular Moscow subway station.
Yall only paying attention to the negative. The fucking system is old and they're trying to fix it
Looks like it’s becoming the old NYC again. Hell yeah!!
This looks amazing and beautiful.
"1st world city" with a 4th world Metro. None of latam metros looks THIS BAD.
New York is so ghetto for some reason lol
@@KTTstudios it's over clustered traffic is a mess parkings getting worse property value getting higher I hate traveling to school and work
@@itsDjjayy there was a lady stuffing her underwear with pissed stained toilet paper on the subway today
@@KTTstudios WTF 😒 this what I'm talking about shit to much
@@itsDjjayy the subway just hasn't evolved from their original 1900's stylish stations yet
Back in the 80s and 90s that tunnel used to be scary as hell. There were huge rats all over…and coming out of the drainage pipes looking for garbage to eat.
Yea! The lights were broken as well! This is leaps and bounds above what it used to be! 😂
Oh god I hate to think how much crime happened in that tunnel back then
Cool Video Man
Anybody whose been on NY subways in the 80s and early 90s is laughing hysterically at everybody clutching their pearls.
Pure genius!!! Loved this video
😂😂😂😂👌🏻
Welp... NYC may be "the greatest city in the world," but there's always room for much improvement. Videos like this may be negative but I think they're worthwhile. Really the only reason these stations don't get renovated is because they're "hidden" from most people's view. If the 42 St station ever got green mold all over it the city would clean that ish up in a jiffy. So I think it's good that you shined a light on these eyesores.
Absolutely true. None of these are prime commuter or tourist lines
Absolutely agree
You'd think they'd at least do something about Chambers. I've never even been to NYC and I know how bad it is. It's embarrassing.
But we pay for these subways! Surely the stations can be better. Both the users and operator (governemnt) should maintain and keep the stations clean. 🙏🙏
So sad to see some of the stations 😪. Disgusting
I remember being shocked at the state of the New York underground. We have messy stations on the London Tube, but even the bad stations are not even in the same league as these NY stations for their awfulness . Such a shame.
I will try to avoid these! Thanks for sharing!
The Hot Garbage smell that hits you like a brick wall … never washes off. Welcome to NYC.
And the garbage stain on the sidewalk 🤮🤢🤮🤢
No thanks I'd rather stay in Europe
The holes on the walls were back in the days they had candy/chewing gum dispensers ( I remember buying chicklets 2 pcs for 1 cent. Also they had phones .
I remember payphones in the subway but I wasn't around for penny candy. Sounds lovely though lol
@@mmoore5190 A lot of the stations had little shops were you can buy newspapers , candy , magazines even hot dogs and sodas. " they made great egg cream sodas " They were mostly on the platform by the entrance. In the late 70's they began to seal them with tiles. The dispensers were on the platform in front of the booth. They had Dentine, Chiclets and Mary Jane and some other stuff . Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend !
@@tonyperez4791it's just so odd though, if there were holes in the concrete like that, here in Sweden and many other parts, they would immediately send a guy to fill the holes with spackle putty. Like any normal person can fill holes in concrete with spackle, it's not hard nor expensive
The 168th Street station that you showed has a special feature, in the foot bridge over the tracks. In many NY subway stations, there's no way to get from one side to the other.
The 191st tunnel was one of the first features of the city I remember seeing in 2011. I, a native Chicagoan, appreciated how the city could let something like that thrive, it's quite a sight. It's not all as bad as y'all are thinking.
On our trip last week, I for the most part didn't notice any of the horror stories you hear about New York, except for one thing. I have to say, the inside of the subway elevators were some of the worst smelling things I've ever experienced in my entire life. I guess too many people don't know the difference between those and bathrooms.
🤣
That's why I'll avoid subway elevators at all costs....
That's nothing you don't want to visit a NYCHA building
Yeah don't take those XD
Diversity is our strength¬
“I think this station is so ugly that the rats don’t even wanna be here” 😂😂
Having moved to Florida several years ago, and having been to Chambers and Bowery at least once a week back then, I have no idea how I did it. I'm terrified just watching this video!
man here in Chicago makes me really appreciate the CTA is clean and constantly getting upgrades
Escape from New York was supposed to be an action flick, not a documentary...
Thanks for the tour. I've been riding NYC's trains since tokens were 15 cents & have seen a lot of stations over the past decades - including most of these in your video. It's sad, dangerous & a health hazard if you're not careful while riding/walking or just standing on trains & platforms. City should really do something to clean these 5 for starters tho. Btw, I've watched Action Kid's walking tours of the City , & they're really cool.
Used to be able to buy an egg cream soda and pay with a 15 cent token. Bronx 1966
@@handyrus Cool ! Back then, your neighborhood pizza & Sabrett hot dogs (from carts) were also 15 cents 👍
@@jbyesterday3959 yep. Friday after school was out, slice of pizza and a coke... grand total 25 cents
Diversity is our strength¬
@@handyrus And it was GREAT pizza in just about any neighborhood you went!!!
I only spent a week in New York very recently but the regularity of the trains has ruined public transport for me forever. My first day back trying to get through my home city on public transport was even more stressful than it used to be by comparison.
Diversity is our strength¬
I have not travelled too much in my life sadly. But from four capitals I have visisted, I always though that my own, Stockholm, would be the least modern one. Tokyo was amazing but I had high expectations on both the Paris and London underground/metro. When I came back from Stockholm from my trip to the two other european capitals I was mindblown from how nice the Stockholm metro really is. Seeing the worst of the New York metro is a sad sight to behold. It is like some things are really left out of reality.
That grafitti tunnel looks like a nice place to record a horror movie.
Can’t get enough of your videos!
Why dose your house look like this ?
As someone who lives in Düsseldorf, Germany and uses the subway system( we call it U-Bahn)
I have to say
I am in shock watching this
geman subway is shet too dude.
@@larrybuchannan186 nah depends on the city. I think the one in Düsseldorf is nice
I feel like European countries do a lot better with maintaining their subway stations..like they have STANDARDS
OH MY GOD… I left NYC in 2020 after 20 years, but I had stopped taking the subway in 2014 because the conditions started to go downhill. But oh my god…. It was never this bad. It’s so sad…
I live in Adelaide AUS...got off the train today and there was a team of about six, cleaning a single grafiti tag about 1 foot long on the ground! They apologised as the graffiti had been there since last night!
What a waste of money, getting rid of some paint.
@@bristoled93 It's not a waste of money. It's an ugly eyesore for the public. If you let that sort of thing escalate without dealing with it you soon have a public dump.
@@bristoled93 people with attitude like yours are the reason NYC subway looks that bad
@@rafaelalbiter6923 I believe he was sarcastic 😂
@@sanketpandia I was not being sarcastic, I like graffiti and how it looks.
So happy between my two visits this summer (both following Here Be Barr marathons) I was lucky to not encounter anything like what you showed. Of course, we pretty much stayed and traveled in touristy areas so I am guessing those may get some TLC. Looking forward to your 5 Best List. FYI, my favorite of the ones know is the American Museum of Natural History stop.
Imagine how good-looking these stations could be if they were properly and regularly maintained. A few paint jobs and flex tape here and there and you've got yourself a clean station!
The Chambers St station itself was built in 1913 (and as you saw has barely been maintained since) as a massive BMT (then BRT) hub and has led to some confusing directional designations. The adjacent and connected Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station on the 4/5/6 was one of the originals built in 1904.
London, England's subway system opened in 1863 and some of the oldest stations are the most impressive to see for their architecture, quality workmanship, quality materials and are well maintained today.
I live in Australia and people love to complain about the trains and the stations here lol, I'd like to show them this video. The stations in Sydney are actually quite clean and in good condition.
Yes, the recent upgrades of many Sydney stations have been great. And then you experience the Singapore subway system and realise how good they can be!!
Exactly, beying a Czech, people complain that there is no toilet paper in train or display at station doesn't work, but this in the video is totaly different level of "something is wrong here" 😀 What is the worst here is that they actually repair it, but then they lock it because they are afraid that people would damage it again, so you have all new fancy toilets at train stations etc...and everything is locked. 😀
Some of the recently renovated stations in Sydney look pretty nice. The rest isn't amazing nor bad, decently clean, rare to see anything broken.
I'm from Southeast Asia, an ostensibly "poor" region, yet our metro/subway stations don't look nearly as bad as the ones shown here.
@@stillcouldbeworse9291 the fact that you actually have a metro means that your region is not that poor
I’m sorry, but those subway stations are the pits. Coming from the outskirts of London, I have to say at least our tube stations on the whole are a lot better. The trains might not run efficiently, but at least the stations are clean. Seems like the mayor of NYC needs to do some butt kicking and get all the stations cleaned up, especially for one of the major cities in the world. Not very inviting.
Clean but seats made covered with fabric. I can't think of anything more unsanitary than that on public transport.
The subway is owned by the state, not the city. Either way, they're broke and have been since the 70s (or even earlier, really).
@Mase Williams 🤣
@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma The subway we see now wasn't like this before, because each were independently owned by different companies. They were the original creators of the now called MTA NYCT. They were building new stations back in the 1900's, improving transportation in NY. NYC had one of the best transportation systems in the world at some point, until it downgraded so badly
@@spacetimecontinuum I prefer fabric seats. They are more comfortable on longer rides and look more interesting. It's not like we have to eat food off the seats.
im in love with the graffiti tunnel art
As a Chicago native I thought our subways were bad but damn! This makes our subways look outstanding! I’ve visited NYC but I didn’t know that they got this bad! Just ridiculous!
It's just certain stations a lot of the stations look great, but these are just neglected
Like you said, it’s a very old station that obviously doesn’t have a maintenance budget and has a building envelope issue (leaking water) so everything looks rusty, mouldy, or delaminating tiles. It’s obvious that at one time it was a very beautiful station. It just needs a lot of tlc. Cheers, and thanks for making the video
2:07 behind the door is an old interlocking machine and CTC board used for dispatching the trains. I is / was known as the chambers street "tower".
I agree with you on Chambers St (J), Bowery, and 21St-Van Alst. Though you’re also right that Chambers St has a magnificent design and it’s pity that such an inherently beautiful station has deteriorated so much. I also know that 21 St-Van Alst was recently included in the “re-new-vation” project that implements deep cleaning of stations that are out of service that weekend anyway. I hadn’t been there since then, but I hope it looks at least somewhat better than it did on this video. But as far as 168 St is concerned, the things you brought to the viewers’ attention aren’t that noticeable, the elevators are not that terrible, and it’s not that hot down there. In my opinion, it is one of the nicest stations in the system (aside from the newly built ones). If anything else deserves your negative attention at that location, it’s the A/C platform. That one needs a lot to get done.
Love that subway map mask. A+ product placement.
ahahha Actionkid!!
Those first few stations resemble something from a post-apocalyptic movie...the kind where astronauts land on a planet run by talking apes, only to discover an old NY subway station and realize they've been on Earth all along. Even the rats take one look and go "Nah, I'm good - I'll eat my pizza elsewhere!"
I thought NYC rats were a joke(rare event), where if you lived in NYC long enough you might see one. Nope, you can walk into almost any subway station and see one.
Do you remember the movie name?
@@QuesQuestion "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"
Look up Halloween horror night’s descendants of destruction. Takes place in a post apocalyptic subway station where humans went underground to be safe from the toxic air. It takes place in New York.
My cousin and I would play in tunnel street everyday growing up in the 80s and 90s. He grew up to the right of the entrance when exiting in the building across the street. His father still lives in that building. We would ride our bikes, skates, scooters, and skate boards to the end of the tunnel and right back up again. At night we would dare each other to go into the tunnel and see who would make it in and out the fastest when the lights in the tunnel would go out. Good times. When it would snow heavily we would put all the snow in the entrance and use cardboards to slide down the entrance.
As a person not from the US these stations looks sooo cool and authentic just like something from one of them classic cool New York movies or music videos.
Are you serious? 😅
You should do the same subway station tour now right after Ida.
I've lived off of the 191st Street Stop on the 1 train for 6yrs now and the tunnel portion was never glamorous but it didn't fall into such disrepute and grim/filth until the pandemic happened. The city has completely neglected it since the pandemic, but I hope they'll clean it back up soon! The rest of the station is actually pretty beautiful. It has a huge beautiful mural on one wall. And actually there's another exit that doesn't go down the tunnel so there's more than one way to get to that station 🙂
I agree I liked it a lot before
As to the holes in the rectangular pillars on the subway platforms... back in the day, they had gum dispensers mounted on some of them. Put a nickel in the slot, turn a circular dial on the bottom, and out came a stick of gum (usually). I'm betting those rusty holes are the remains of where they were located....
Compared to when I used to visit NYC in the early 80s, if all that happened in any of those stations was mould and dirt, I'd be very happy. 168 is beautiful with the vaulted ceiling. Could use some clean-up though. Even Bowery's mosaics are very nice. Clean and fix them up and you're good to go!
See London underground or Moskow metro
What's really sad is the Chambers Street was supposed to be the BMT's Grand Central! Newspaper clippings from the time said the platforms were packed and the station was beautiful. Unfourtantly, service cuts and the decline of the Els in Brooklyn resulted in the current station we have today
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Alot of chambers st is no longer standing. The overpasses and stairways were dismantled. Crazy thing is , it is right under City Hall. If that wont make thrm fix it , nothing will
Chambers is the most depressing subway stop...i remember stopping at that station as a kid and I got a bad vibe from it back in the late 80s...it's still the same...no thanks!
i really love places that look like this, gives me apocalypse vibes
I grew with that as my station (city hall/chambers) in the 80s and 90s. I still visit my mom there. Never had any issues. It’s actually quite nice because of all of the nearby lines, the access points and the nearby pedestrian malls (rare now but especially back then). Now I live where there is limited public transport, which essentially like much of the rest of the US. Car-decency worse than anything on this video
If In the Heights was a horror movie, they would play a distorted version of "Paciencia y Fe" in 191st st. I feel rather sad about that
Its so sad, they are renovating the Chambers St station slowly but they have covered up the beautiful NYC murals that are probably from the original station, you used to see it right across from that creepy door at the end of the platform. I used to use that station every day, it really is that bad. I hope they restore it and maintain parts of the historic station .
I lauhged a little when you said "is managed by" :D
with all the run downness of some of new yorks underground i gotta say id love to visit the city, New York seems to be an interesting example of human settlement as the city wasnt naturally a concentrated place for so many to live. Im sure New Yorkers even being on the race for time and getting the earnings for the scary rents are nice, friendly and cool people. NYC is definetly on my list of place to travel to. All the best to the Big apple :)
It's just all part of NYC's charm. Jimmy Hoffa.....I think Jimmy Hoffa is behind that door.
I lived uptown and I used to use the 191st street tunnel all the time. This was before they commissioned the street art and it was pretty terrifying to walk through especially at night. It looked so much better when they commissioned the street art. I wish they did a better job protecting the murals from vandalism. It now looks almost worse than it did before. Also y’all should see some of the stations in the BX. There’s also the Hoyte schermerhorn station in the BK with an abandoned platform. If we are gonna be honest, almost every station outside of midtown is horrible.
You pointed out some holes in the Chambers Street Station (What is this on the wall here?). Back in the day, there were gum and candy bar vending machines in the stations. It is possible that the holes are what remains of a gum machine that was attached to the pillar.
And you can't fill those holes with some filler spackle? That would take an hour to fix that, too much effort I guess?
2:03 behind that door is a Max Payne secret level 😂
I think that "toxic sludge" is more likely corroded copper, similar to the corroded iron that makes the red/brown rust stains. Not really that gross, but always makes me wonder what structural or electrical elements behind the wall look like...
The London Underground is much older than NYC subway but they maintain there stations way better than NYC MTA does by far.
I now live in Toronto and of course the TTC subway is a younger system but it is well thought out. When raining no water drips down from the street grates or running down the staircase with a thunderstorm pouring outside. I used the MTA in the 70's the stations still needs major insulation upgrades n water drainage..
But most of all people need to stop throwing their garbage on the platforms n tracks n passageways n stop complaining that the city needs to clean it up. Of course the city needs to but how did the garbage get there? Selfish not caring people is how.
Montreal n Toronto n London's subways are way cleaner than NYC, and of course people in other cities have pride in their tube n metro n subways. In NYC some people don't care n think someone else will cleanup there mess. They have to start to care n start using the garbage bins more often. More importantly people in NYC one day will have pride in maintaining clean subway stations thru out again.
The Chambers Street station reminds me of Beneath the Planet of the Apes movie. Good stuff my friend. 😊
190th Street on the A train has two ways in/out: via an elevator to Fort Washington Avenue, or through a long tunnel to Bennett Avenue. Bennett Avenue is a quiet residential street, off of Broadway, dark and deserted at night. Feels dangerous.
The very least they could do to some stations is stop the leaks, clean the trash, and wash the sludge off the walls. Maybe a fresh coat of paint and fix broken light fixtures. A big part of why maintenance doesn't happen is because of the insistence to make trains run 24/7 complicates things. During the earlier days of the pandemic they closed stations for a few hours to clean it. That should be a regular thing, a couple of hours closure in the dead of night about once a week would be an acceptable tradeoff for relatively clean stations.
The 24/7 is not a valid reason imo. Lots of train stations around the world are fixed and not only during night hours. They do it bit by bit or they close for one week to do so.
All of the stations that require you to use an elevator to get down really freak me out. I’m so afraid of getting stuck! 😬
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The one on the R line at Court St- Borough Hall FREAKED ME OUT!!
@@luv4dio I used to live near there and that’s the first one I thought of! Clark St nearby has elevators too, but it’s less creepy for some reason.
I'd me more afraid of not making it out of the elevator without being violated somehow.
Omg same I was always scared of elevators especially those rusty train ones😵💫 whenever I go to school or come back from school even if I'm too tired I always use the stairwell and its not even just that I'm scared it's cuz the stench is unbearable like I can handle the train scent cuz its an open space but when I'm in a stinky small elevator, I just feel disgusted and claustrophobic
As a parisian we love to complain about our metro but i've been to other european and asian city's and most of the time its just that the parisian metro as some older line compared to other citys , but even if they are old they are in almost in perfect condition and the new lines are very clean . When i visited NYC i was shocked to see how bad the metro is especialy in the older lines , even if they are old if you compare them to some paris line of the same age , parisian lines are in way better condition . It is sad because honestly NYC as no reson to have a metro like this.
The trains in Paris metro are often dirty though. Most seats have stains on them!
I am from Austria (near Vienna) and went to Paris last week. I actually liked the metro in Paris!
So cool 😎
I got off at Chamber Street Station once. I could say I don’t remember it looking like that, but was kind of in a rush and had to be somewhere. But seriously, that station needs a renovation.
Its always looked like that
The Complaints Dept is behind the closed door. Sorry out for lunch .
I need a shower just by looking at that - Here Be Barr 2021
1:03 Chambers Street actually was the first station I visited in NYC. I fully expected them to be that bad at every other stop I made
Subway system in Toronto Canada is crazy busy but clean and modern.
The door at the end of the station probably has something to do with train controls and track operation. We have some of them in Toronto, it is where the signals and or distance between trains is monitored. Perhaps that one is no longer in use.
I thank for showing this, as for 2/3 of my life I had to deal with these subways on a daily basis. I never understood this all the money they received and it's in this condition. And I have lived from the Bronx, several parts of Manhattan, Queens, and then to Brooklyn. I've traveled to other states and NYC is the dirtyness by far. Except places like the Plaza , Waldorf 😅. I now live in Florida, but ginch when I go back to visit my family and friends 😢.
woah. That's quite shocking. even some of London's old abandoned WW2 underground stations don't look like that. and they were bombed out (seriously).