A RARE LOOK INSIDE THE NYC SUBWAY STATION THAT WAS DESTROYED ON 9/11

[@HostileMAV]

If you go to the entrance area to the E train at the World Trade Center subway station, the original doors used to enter the original WTC concourse are still there. In memory of 9/11, they kept all the signage and other fixtures the same. That entrance is like a time capsule.

[@DougieYT]

Yes, the orange spray paint from the crew that went down there on September 13th! If I’m not mistaken I believe that entire area by the E Train Station of the Trade Center was one of the few areas of the Complex that survived relatively intact.

[@HostileMAV]

@@DougieYT yes that’s true. The hallway leading up to the doors is original. Including the 1970s light fixtures, flooring and of course the doors.

[@twincamGT]

​@@DougieYT hey there was that station area under part or one the twin towers.I or is that the station that is inside the oculous now. I would love to have seen that. Been to newyork 3 times now. I love it thiers no place like NYC an amazing place and people 🗽 ❤

[@Lona_444]

The “GoPro” footage is SO COOL- extremely liminal and dystopian. And the white noise makes it even better, what a media gem 👾

[@guyfaux3978]

The irony is that the new South Ferry platform would later have its own disaster, the flooding from Tropical Storm Sandy.

[@ltvsquad]

Indeed. I think I have some footage of the aftermath. Maybe subject of a future video.

[@rnj323]

Superstorm* Sandy

[@GreenYoshi3881]

Nothing tropical about that storm…. Super Storm Sandy lived up to her name 😂

[@michaelfrench3396]

When You start your GoPro footage, there's someone or something in that token Booth. I don't know if you can see it on the glass. It doesn't look like a reflection of you

[@michaelfrench3396]

It's definitely not you. I think you caught a ghost. There is something or someone that continues moving in the reflection in that glass after you stop

[@Eric________]

This is so cool. And also incredibly sad. Was downtown on the PATH the night of 9/10 and remember the WTC stop vividly. I'd passed by it many times by that point in life, but it's now stuck in my memory because of the events of the following morning. Very eerie to see the "names in 9/11 dust" too.

[@ltvsquad]

Rumor was that there was a whiteboard in the token booth that says 'Good morning, today is 9/11/01" - though I've never seen it. if it existed, someone swiped it before we went.

[@P.willow]

Watching from Ireland 🇮🇪 cool video man.

[@johno9507]

I still remember just waking up from surgery on 9/11 and a general anaesthetic and seeing the WTC collapse, I thought I was hallucinating. 🇦🇺

[@RaptorMocha]

bro thats fucking brutal

[@damonroberts7372]

I think we _all_ felt like we were hallucinating.

[@rachelwick3477]

If it’s okay to ask, at what point did you realize what you were seeing was real? You don’t have to share if you don’t want to but that’s admittedly a perspective I’ve never heard of that day.

[@johno9507]

@rachelwick3477 That's kinda hard to say. I think it wasn't untill the next day when the anaesthetic had started to wear off that I sorta realised what was going on, and even then I wasn't really sure as I was in Intensive care and on a ventilator with a tube down my throat, and they keep you well sedated and on lots of pain killers after a large chest operation. General anaesthetics really mess with your head, and it took my mother to convince me that it was real, but according to the nurses I had been having conversations with my mother despite her not being there half the time. It's quite a surreal experience.

[@Brian-cr6rb]

Thank you so much for not showing pictures of the towers planes, stuff on the surface. This is very interesting and not too triggering.

[@ltvsquad]

You're welcome. As someone that was downtown there that morning, just recording this was a bit triggering, but I did my best to keep all that off camera.

[@ltvsquad]

@Hotters9060 Yeeeeeah. There's a few scenes from Radio Row written into Colton Whitehead's recent 'Harlem Shuffle' novel.

[@worldcomicsreview354]

@Hotters9060 If I could travel in time I'd visit that as much as I'd visit the twin towers. Sounds like it was like the way Akihabara in Tokyo used to be, before it was all anime stuff (I first went in 2009, when the transition to "all anime stuff" was already about 80% finished), only everything was big vacuum tubes back then!

[@funny3scene]

Triggering?? Really?

[@chfourchfour]

​@@funny3scene yes ptsd is a thing

[@DougieYT]

That map brings me back to an old Post 9/11 story my old man had told me. He said riding on the J train back then was both odd and saddening because when you would cross the Williamsburg Bridge, instead of seeing two tall and familiar skyscrapers standing out from the Financial District-Lower Manhattan, that was instead replaced by a empty void and a dust cloud with the aura of death and destruction surrounding it. I had absolutely no idea that the subways got screwed up THIS BADLY because of 9/11. Great and informative video + new sub from me.

[@ltvsquad]

Yeah it was big weird seeing nothing tall in the skyline downtown. That first week or two after 9/11 had some pretty crazy service patterns. Some people mistakenly think that service was shut down on 9/11, but it wasn't. Any line that didn't go through lower Manhattan was running in some capacity. After walking out of Manhattan I got a G train where service seemed normal.

[@DougieYT]

@@ltvsquad Yeah that for some reason was a common belief and even myself believed it for some time until a few short years ago. Apparently Subway lines that didn’t pass through Downtown, and specifically directly through or near the World Trade Center operated to some degree or mostly the same way it did before and after the attacks.

[@ltvsquad]

@@DougieYT And they quickly plugged as many holes in service as they could. Running the J/M to lower Brooklyn, the Q to Forest Hills, The 1 and the E to the far ends of Brooklyn & Queens to take the place of the 3 & C...

[@ironnorth]

Thank you for this video. I was and still am one of the transit workers who took the AFC equipment out of that station on 9-12-01. If my memory serves me it was 2 MetroCard vending machines and 2 Heets. I'm part of the 9/11 registry and thank God so far I'm getting a pass health wise. This video brings back memories of that station.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

God bless

[@Transit_Biker]

I was a hospitality exchange tour guide in NYC for years. Through the Canal & Chambers street terminus' of the 1 train. Then they re-connected the line, but plywood walls where the station once stood at Cortland. You could see the huge pit between the gaps of the boards. It was so strange how many different configurations the area went through before service was eventually restored and the new South Ferry station got flooded & repaired. I have hundreds of photos of these years of recovery and rebuilding.

[@heribertosarmiento1265]

Man after all this year 9/11 still feels like it was yesterday for me. I was supposed to be at windows to the world by 8:30 am but thanks to my mom arriving late with the MetroCard I didn't became a victim. Later on when NYC asked for search and rescue and help to clean out i was about to go and my mother barred me from it she said best to leave it to the pro and look she saved me again a second time. God rest your soul and those that lose their lives in 9/11 mom.

[@TheOfficialSauceyThomas]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@richardschindler8822]

As I worked one block from the WTC, this was my station. On 9/11 I was already at work when the attack happened. I remember seeing this station after. This was to me a terrible reminder of that day. But I do realize this is part of history and needs to be seen.

[@catsbyondrepair]

You mean the government operation to take your rights away

[@Michael-i4l3j]

its so sad that a country would do this to their own people, what a corrupt government

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

Kind of sad knowing the old graffiti is gone but wild getting to see it. I watched a lot of movies like Wild Style and Beat Street growing up along with films like The Warriors, and always found the idea of graffiti to be an awesome one. Just knowing that decades later people could still see something you created (even if it's just a tag) has to be pretty cool. Thanks for documenting some of the lesser-known aftereffects of that tragedy.

[@LoganHicksNY]

Great stuff Joe. Glad you documented the past as well as you have.

[@patriciaplayford7421]

So sad and heartbreaking 💔 all these years later , it’s like yesterday in our minds , but the first time seeing this footage , i was at home in Australia 🇦🇺 it was nighttime here , I watched it on the tv , I never even thought of the subways being damaged until this footage , I’m so pleased that your all recovered , ( as much as you can , it’s all very haunting ) in your beautiful city , RIP those that passed , Thanks

[@bapples]

Remember the 1-9 station well. Brought back memories. I graduated HS in the area in 1999.

[@RJ986S]

Thanks for the striking photos and film footage, and thank you for documenting. Truly strange (in a cinematic way), but totally emotional and thoroughly affecting. I worked in 1WTC in the '80s. I would occasionally take the E train in on weekends because it went right to the concourse shops area. There was a food vendor who sold breakfast sandwiches at the end of the platform. My office transferred to another city at the end of the 1980s, but after 9/11 happened, in addition to being deeply affected by the attacks and the loss of life, I sometimes wonder what happened to that E train station at the WTC (and how badly it was damaged). Liked & subscribed.

[@professional.commentator]

Thank you for this video. I'm from NYC and was a little kid when 9/11 took place. I don't remember too much from that day but I do remember the crazy subway changes that were taking place in the early 2000s. It seemed like every month they were rerouting the lines.

[@themeantuber]

Priceless - being able to see and hear all that. Thank you!

[@purpleluna8413]

Wow, that was so cool. I'm glad you took that as it is part of history. I have read and watched ao much about 9/11. I am an Aussie and rwmber waking up that day putting on one of our morning shoes only to see this footage get repeated over and over and over again, luke a lit if ppl thought it was a movie, then realised it was a far cry from a movie but reality. I sat there to lunch time glued to the tv. This was such an interwsting look I complwtely foegit till now what would of been going in in the tunnels and subways of 9/11 Thankyou for sharing RIP to all those that lost their lives that day and the 10 Aussies who never came home 🇦🇺 ❤

[@MrFoxANDnoobie]

What a crazy day. Rip to the people that died. 😢

[@0f-the-land]

Something to be said about the craftsmanship of those subway tunnels, and passages.

[@duckasmrslay]

6:35 I think what you heard was a (5) train going through the South Ferry Loop to terminate at Bowling Green. But seeing that the (5) doesn’t run there at late nights, it was most likely a (4).

[@peterplumb9725]

Or.........a ghost train?

[@austinballard6815]

Thanks for posting...id never seen any video of the ststion after the collapse, just some pictures of the tunnel. The force of the collapse was powerful enough to bend several of the steel upright girders (between the tracks) out of plumb, some even bent. Tho i was a little surprised the station itself is still pretty much intact 23 years later.

[@davejefferynf]

This was very fascinating. Thank you for sharing this 👍👍

[@gabrielapaulinho1luv]

I was deeply moved by your video.❤ Thank you for having filmed with your prototype Go Pro. Thank you also for capturing the vintage graffiti art and tags now lost to history. I loved NYC's subways since I was a young kid living in the boroughs of Manhattan (where I was born), The Bronx, Queens and ... much later, Brooklyn. As a rail enthusiast and as a former New Yorker (and someone whose boss forced her to come to work on 9/11/01 via the 33rd St. PATH, b/c that idiot supervisor thought it was "just a small plane that crashed downtown" -- she got me stuck in East Harlem because we had to evacuate our office building, and Times Square, b/c of rumored additional hijacked commetcial jets heading to Times Square and Central Park; but NYPD officers kept yelling, "Walk north! Walk north!" and they wouldn't let me walk back to the 33rd St. PATH despite my telling them I lived in NJ and begging them in tears.😢 God Bless all of the innocent people who were murdered that day and all of the heroes who died saving and trying to save others and many of whom perished that tragic day, from NYC to Pennsylvania to D.C.🙏🏼💐💐💐 People from NYC, from elsewhere in the U.S. and from around the world. The whole world mourned. God Bless the thousands of people, including rescue workers in and around Ground Zero, local residents and people who worked in Lower Manhattan, who continue to suffer and die of cancers such as mesothileoma due to exposure to extremely toxic fumes on and in the years after September 11th. Sometimes I wonder whether I developed asthma in 2011 due to being assigned by a temp firm to a law firm at 14 Wall Street in late October 2001. I vividly recall seeing, smelling and breathing in the thick acrid cloud of smoke ... a mixture of human ashes, parts of the crashed airplanes and materials from the targeted and collapsed Twin Towers.😔 I have subscribed to your excellent channel.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Cortlandt Street was my station, to catch the #1 train to Times Square, where at the time I worked on Bway btw. 43rd & 44th streets. Thank God I had major gastro issues overnight into 9/11/01, because the pain upon awakening made me dawdle while getting ready for work. What's eerie is that a nightmare about the boiler room of our building exploding is what made me sick overnight. I'm forever grateful for that stomachache because, had it not happened, I would've been either walking (running) through the WTC concourse on my way to the Cortlandt Street platform OR standing on that platform between 8:45 a.m. and 9 a.m. I lived in Downtown Jersey City, so I always exited the PATH train on the WTC's lower level after 8:30 a.m. My work reporting time in T-Square was 9:30 a.m., and I was disciplined about reaching my desk by 9:20 a.m. Upon returning to work (via PATH train to 33rd Street, then walking to T-Square) on Sept. 13th, everything felt surreal. Once up at the 22nd floor of the office building, I greeted the receptionist, but she was sullen. Everyone looked morbid. Finally, I greeted my supervisor, a senior paralegal who usually was cheery and funny -- but she also was the idiot who'd forced me under threat of firing me if I hadn't come to work ON September 11th DURING the suicide hijackings being perpetrated in our country. She definitely could've gotten me killed, and my family members were furious at her for what she did. In fact, when I did reach work, the first tower was about to collapse within a few minutes (another reason that the NYPD officers were yelling to all of us evacuees and motioning: "Walk north! Walk north!") and by the time I got to my desk, the voicemail red light was blinking like crazy. It was my brother's vms. He frantically and repeatedly had called, his messages stating, "Where ARE you???" and "Why aren't you home???" By the last of his voice messages, his voice sounded very broken, and he was weeping. My brother and my father (my mom died when I was a young teen) wouldn't find out that I was alive 'til I called them from my desk upon returning to work the morning of September 13th. My brother was in utter anguish because he believed that I was dead, as did our dad. After I spoke with, and wept with, my sib, I glanced over at my idiot supervisor -- who had the nerve to snap at me for not showing up at work the day before (duhhh, no phones were working where I was ... stuck in The Bronx with an aunt who found me in East Harlem with my senile grandmother, her mother -- that aunt was gracious enough to drive me home the evening of September 12th). Thinking of what my sib had just told me through tears, that that woman could've gotten me killed, I looked over at her and said: "I quit." The day, Friday, I registered with several employment agencies. By the following week, I was working in-house at one of them. That's the company which sent me to work with a solo practicing attorney near Ground Zero. I remember that lots of lawyers in Lower Manhattan needed paralegals and secretaries. Our legal-staffing firm would send talent (the word used in the staffing industry), but the temps couldn't handle the tragic environment -- my God, it was the scene of mass murder and a disaster, an act of war with America -- so I couldn't blame those employees. My boss didn't care about us. She smilingly sent me to 14 Wall Street, where I worked quite efficiently for a week. As I said, maybe that's why I developed asthma, "seemingly" out of the blue a decade later ... when it really was out of the grey, as in toxic death smoke and fumes.😔🙏🏼

[@skipstopstart]

Thanks for taking us back so vividly to that month in 2001🙏

[@Chanta-nh8et]

Just reading your post allows us a more graphic image of what was going on in NYC than any of the reports of 9/11. I’m from Arkansas and like the rest of the world we just saw all the reporting of the attacks and on going rescue attempts being done. You show us how insane and agonizing it was for the loved ones of people living in NYC.

[@victorpike8918]

Thank you for showing this.

[@finecallmejane]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@EndlesslyNikkiSaid]

Great video! Very interesting to see the aftermath even a few years later. The street art/graffiti was cool to see as well! There seems to be so much history with that aspect too

[@stanleybest8833]

The tunnel was well lit and strune with loose debris. That acrid powder concrete smell overpowered the nasty subway scent. Some dust blew through randomly. I used Vessey Street a few times before this happened.

[@thephreak2151]

Company i use to work for helped rebuild parts of the subway for NY. We didn't go onsite but constructed the beams for the subway system and shipped them to NY. American Bridge, Pittsburgh PA

[@ltvsquad]

Great iron. I'm pretty sure we have a lot of overpasses around town with 'American Bridge co.' stamps on them.

[@thephreak2151]

@@ltvsquad Fort Pitt bridge, when i was there we did some repair work for it. But it wasn't just in PA. we did work for WV, NY, FL as well.

[@herlsone]

Cortland Street was my station for a while when I worked for EF Hutton in Battery Park, took it to/from WTC to get to the PATH to Newark.

[@gustavvandenburger4912]

I didn't even know that stations were left abbadoned

[@paulie-Gualtieri.]

A fantastic and interesting discovery that I randomly found.

[@Jake-nq3lr]

Man it's spooky down there, I'd like to go inside, one of these days to do some recordings. It's almost like time has stood still.

[@ltvsquad]

This station is reopened, but there's a few 'abandoned' stations around town with a similar vibe. What makes this video a bit out of the norm is that there were no trains running that weekend. Most of the time at the closed stations you'll still hear trains going by.

[@jamesjohnson1050]

There's a video of people standing next to a train station that was near the South Tower and when the South Tower collapsed, you could hear these creepy moans, squeeks, and groans coming out of the subway.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Woah. Any idea where/how I can find this video?

[@averydaymond1560]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 Any idea where/how you can find your own soul and heart?

[@Bull3tBikes]

Is that legit?

[@MTA_2009]

Where?

[@manofaction1807]

Hollowed Ground. There's a lot of secrets still down there after all these years.

[@Hushey]

the gopro footage is VERY artsy. liminal.

[@ScottishWoman24]

What does that tunnel look like today?

[@briansmyla8696]

That's an optimistic statement to say that NYC has recovered pretty well since 9/11. The truth is that corruption and grift have been slowly killing the city since then, and it's not getting any better. Businesses are fleeing as quickly as they are able to.

[@ltvsquad]

The truth is people have been saying NYC is dying my entire life and yet, somehow, it's still there. Thriving. I've worked with dozens of large companies here over a span of three decades and none one has left NYC yet.

[@roberttorres4893]

This guy is the youngest looking old man I've ever seen 😂

[@monsterajr1]

Good info here in this video. FYI, the part of the line that was destroyed was rebuilt using updated versions of the original design drawings (structural steel, concrete, etc..) and rebuilt nearly identically to allow for the trains to pass through. This was the most expeditious way to rebuild.

[@lindastuart2458]

Such a horrible event even after so many years. My son was just starting preschool that day.

[@ThaDudePat]

almost looks like im watching an 80s movie with how neat and well things look

[@Mr5083]

How were you able to get into the system and film this , from what I remember the entire area was sealed off by police and military and going down into the subway system was very dangerous at that time

[@1474JOHN]

He said those footage are from around 2005

[@JohnAlot]

I was attending BMCC in the early 2000s, not far from the WTC. I avoided the WTC area. It was just too traumatic to see.

[@ltvsquad]

Same. I worked down the street for a few years and literally avoided it forever.

[@StargazerAPW]

Wow I have to say that I really love your hair ❤

[@braccoz]

Very interesting footage would love to see what else you have in New York City

[@ltvsquad]

Not much video online but I've got a boatload of other subway tunnel and abandoned places photos over at ltvsquad.com

[@DavenHiskey]

Thanks for the info Zoltar

[@soundshaper]

I worked at GZ in the latter stages of recovery, mostly in 1 World Financial Plaza (Dow Jones Bldg) which overlooked the crater that was WTC. In April 2002, a segment of the 1 train tunnel near the Cortlandt St. station I think south of it was exposed to the outside world utterly destroyed. Also the whole PATH station underneath was completely exposed.

[@philnaegely]

There was a nine line?

[@Noobguy-vj9lk]

yup

[@brianhenderson9124]

It was a skip-stop service pattern on the 7th Avenue line in the 80s and 90s, active in rush hours only.

[@ltvsquad]

1988-2005. Wiki has allllll the details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_(New_York_City_Subway_service)#:~:text=The%209%20train%20was%20discontinued,replacing%20the%20original%20loop%20station.

[@zhdrums3872]

Revs was an og and am surprised to hear his name mentioned in 2024. Man had a crazy life and wrote some crazy stories of his in those tunnels.

[@jessemontano762]

what's up, man? i love subways. underground. Never been on one. but theyre fascinating

[@lisaroberts8556]

Another channel featured the partially destroyed Mall. At the Bottom of the World Trade Center. I forget the channel name. but the pictures of this basement mall with all the stores and its merchandise. Frozen in time from that day. Amazing pictures!

[@carlosdragaobagasan8392]

A decade ago they already fixed up ⬆️ Cortlandt St on the #1 train 🚊 line

[@savagepanda8458]

5:36 I think that’s a swear word in Spanish, not a person’s name.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

it is…it means male prostitute but you can guess what the not so nice meaning of prostitute is

[@ltvsquad]

Might be. Might be two, depending how you use sucio. Below it looks like 'len' maybe, and on the other side were some other words. No idea what they were in retrospect.

[@FisherHDX]

What were the rough dates of the pics and footage?

[@KarenFlanagan-s7z]

Entertaining topic and different perspectives of September the 11th damage not seen. Underneath the subway systems.

[@codynelson2365]

That Smith piece behind you 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Tuberuser187]

Crazy how still and silent it all is considering what happened there.

[@bekkatheman]

I remember taking the 1 train in like 09-10 they passed the station.

[@Todd41R]

Not trying to be disrespectful, but am i the only one that sees this guy and immediately thinks Nelix from Srer Trek Voyager ?

[@timbrosnan9372]

This is fascinating. I went through that station for many years. One question... I assume this station was also additionally damaged (flooded?) due to Hurricane Sandy as Lower Manhattan near the WTC was basically underwater. Is any of this footage after that?

[@ltvsquad]

This is a good question. It was still closed at the time, so it's possible, though I don't think it was much. The 'New' South Ferry stop was flooded and closed for awhile, but I don't recall Rector street (just to the north) having any major issues. My attention was on Rockaway at the time, which was also under water and hit with some pretty severe fires.

[@MinorLG]

That year for summer vacation, I visited New York. I was there the week of August 11th. I have a picture with me standing on the top of the world trade center. I remember seeing the marble contraption in the lobby of the World Trade Center.

[@VaughanKoch-yb9wd]

Hi I'm Vaughan from Australia I remember 9/11 clearly I was horrified God bless you guys in the u.s.a

[@belchnasty]

OMG that must be sooo errie!!

[@tgabia2182]

Rip to all the 9/11 victims and also rip to iZTHEWiZ and SMITHS brother SANE

[@BoomixDe]

As a Germany i don't see a diffrence between destroyed abandoned NYC subway stations and the ones currently in operation. Both looks the same

[@stephanb.3342]

As a Frenchman I totally ignored this part of 9/11. Quite interesting! 🙏

[@craftycasting9578]

is this guy nelix from deep space 9 ?

[@alanjuarez8660]

And what happened to this abandoned station this days? Is it still there?

[@bostonrailfan2427]

reopened September 2018 after 17 years of legal wrangling and politics

[@sighvatssohn]

So this is about the WTC Cordtlandt subway station. Not the Cortdtland Street subway station.

[@mansize6622]

Definitely some evidence in that mess.

[@voltare2amstereo]

Sounds like a flip camera, those handheld devices that were popular with early KZbinr types

[@Joshgiddens]

How comes you’re uploading in 720p 😮!

[@ElleCee62978]

I remember seeing a picture of a subway station with blood on the floor. Was this Courtland Street?

[@ltvsquad]

Legit don't know. Could have been the E train or PATH terminals too.

[@ElleCee62978]

@@ltvsquad I’ll have to see if I can find a picture of it. It disturbed me a whole lot. Was there a Chambers Street Station?

[@ltvsquad]

@@ElleCee62978 Yes - there's more than one, and that would make sense because they're all fairly close to WTC. Many people were 'walking wounded' just trying to get away from the chaos. I saw a few bloodied people walking north that morning, even two-three miles north...

[@ElleCee62978]

@@ltvsquad My uncle was in NYC on 9/11. He was a plumber… and on the roof of the Burlington Coat Factory when it happened. He was almost hit by a flaming torso. But he lived until 2016.

[@WayneDavisDA_ILLESTalive14]

Hey man, thank you

[@thepotatomaster583]

Is it just me or when he shows the video at 5:20 you can see something walk in that window like thing? Like it could just be a reflection but like that looks like a ghostly wosty to me boi (just curious is all, if I’m just dumb please lmk)

[@thepotatomaster583]

@@urbanskiboguslabsrecording7531 well I’m happy I kept some of it from when I was a kid lmao 😂 but I do be just seeing things like that lol

[@possumj7307]

I see it.

[@erinfiore949]

I saw it too. Had to back up the video a couple times to make sure

[@MsRoz316]

Oh wow I used to get off at Courtland

[@bradartis3822]

"Back to bussiness pretty much as soon as possible " an event like thay no such thing as getting back to normal bussiness straight away that bit was the only bit that bugged me because nearly 3 thousand people died so why would you try rush everything to go back to working days

[@Dathom1986]

I think 9/11 put a close on the 90s maybe even the 20th century, and fun aspect of life diminished cos of the seriousness of it all , yes we got over it , but everybody was left with a slight sense of trauma ( nothing compared to the families) ..of course!! But we did still all witness it.

[@fulltang1]

That gopro footage is major backrooms vibes

[@JhonJinny]

I appreciate this

[@TheOKkittyfarm]

Thank you!

[@silhouette_nyc]

We have documented this!

[@lachlanwilliams5818]

I didn't realise that much off the station serviced.

[@brettfieldingx]

Is there any footage of the survivors stairs that led to Vesey St , the ones now housed in the memorial museum ?

[@ltvsquad]

I'm sure there is if you run a search on here. I didn't really go back to photograph anything above ground back then...

[@doctordeath.5716]

Wow how crazy and how did you get in there

[@ltvsquad]

on foot...

[@electro_sykes]

why did they even bother walling off the old station platforms

[@ltvsquad]

They seem to do this on all major station rebuilds. I suspect it's because they want to separate the station from the track area so they don't have to do safety training for all the various contractors they hire. I could be very wrong, but that's my gut impression.

[@electro_sykes]

@@ltvsquad in case of an emergency in the subway tunnel, it could of still been used as an emergency exit, right?

[@ltvsquad]

@@electro_sykes I don't think so - maybe later, after the new tower was built.

[@X39X]

Crazy to see how much damage was done by the American government.

[@BELIKEJUATER]

I always wondered who owned the towers and how much they might’ve gotten back from insurance.

[@mikecumbo7531]

The Port Authority owned the towers, leased to a real estate company.

[@michaelcase8574]

How did you get in there? Who did you have bribe, or are you just resourceful? However you got in there l, nice job!

[@DanburyDK]

Did I see a reflection of a Payphone? 😮

[@ltvsquad]

Good catch- there might be - there were pay phones down there and it's likely that the phone company did not get to retrieve it.

[@JustMe-ob3nw]

It might be haunted

[@MJanovicable]

Doubt it.

[@ArmoMan87]

5:23 figure walking behind window structure. Not a reflection, cameraman is still. As camera mations back to that spot figure is gone.

[@roberttorres4893]

I think it's a reflection of the second guy seen at 5:36. He had to be standing behind camera guy to the right. After 5 reminds I finally saw it.

[@ArmoMan87]

@roberttorres4893 Yeah, it could very well be, as it appears to be wearing the same colored shirt. None the less, just the way it appears on video is just creepy.

[@maaadcheddar]

I'm so beyond exhausted of KZbin "fact checking" everyone's video with Wikipedia articles. You know, Wikipedia, the bastion of truth.

[@ltvsquad]

I sort of get why they do it, but I see zero reasons for it on this particular video. I don't think there's a way for me to remove it.

[@tomtom-iu4zs]

It keeps people believing in the narrative they put out. They don't want people looking into things like the previous plans to use drone airliners for a false flag, reporters predicting the future, and a pristine passport of a terrorist to name a few.

[@jamesfeussner3606]

the real reason to the subway station beign left the way it was for so long is it was a true memorial to the victums of 911

[@ltvsquad]

Unfortunately unlikely. it was a byproduct of all the construction overhead, and later, MTA dragging their feet. It took them nearly 17 years to reopen it, despite the memorial & new tower opening in 2011 & 2014 respectively.

[@seandaly578]

I was down town 3 months after it happened.

[@ChoiDuong0944]

I still own a subway map (after the attacks) that dates to 2001.

[@paullastname474]

Mr Burns definitely would not let you play on his Baseball team!!!!!

[@ebeckman1011]

What’s rare/creepy about this? Don’t get me wrong, it’s cool, but it’s no more creepy than an empty warehouse