The level of craftsmanship that went into these old stations is unbelievable. Extensive subway tile, polished granite trim, sandstone columns, decorative iron railings and grille work, vaulted ceilings in the entrance, arched windows and doorways, mosaic signage and so on. I hope society regains an appreciation for beautiful (rather than just utilitarian) architecture again.
@roadmaster9356 жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree with you
@sopaman12345 жыл бұрын
Blame Robert Moses and the rest of the crooked politicians (aka) Republicans who had thier filthy corrputed hands in the till, which caused the deterioration of the subway system begining in the 1950's..and still going on to this day...
@KookoCraft5 жыл бұрын
@@sopaman1234 Dont bring politics into this asshole
@PeruvianPotato5 жыл бұрын
And retards want them to rebuild the stations
@thesalandarian33144 жыл бұрын
Alex I agree
@paktype7 жыл бұрын
Believe it or not, the station looks much better now than it did in the mid 1990s. Back then, the paint on the station ceilings was peeling off and wires from long-removed light fixtures dangled everywhere. The station's nickname is "the magnificent dungeon".
@KazeriantheVIIII6 жыл бұрын
Not sure Id go all the way as to call it "Magnificent", but your certainly on the money with 'Dungeon"
@Karma_Police245 жыл бұрын
KazeriantheVIIII you’re
@eileenkelly87494 жыл бұрын
HELL!
@noelsmythe73913 жыл бұрын
Great name! 4 a Movie about the Subway System of the 70s & 80s especially in the South Bronx. Lol!
@TheluckyGuy07 жыл бұрын
If anyone is wondering its mid-2017 and it still looks like that....
@nathanbush67816 жыл бұрын
Was going to post a comment asking if they've taken any initiative and start to repair it...but, NOPE!
@bryansu58246 жыл бұрын
2018, still
@crowmigration82456 жыл бұрын
1 like = 1 subway tile re-glued to the wall
@brownguy515 жыл бұрын
Early 2019 and still the same shit
@AdamSmith-gs2dv5 жыл бұрын
@@brownguy51 Late 2019 it's still awful but hey it will be ADA accessible soon lol!
@themoviedealers6 жыл бұрын
In the 1970's, every station on the system looked like this.
@basictransportenthusiast43866 жыл бұрын
The Movie Dealers true lol
@1Rdby6 жыл бұрын
The Movie Dealers I was going to say the EXACT same thing !
@joemartin12536 жыл бұрын
The Movie Dealers Like Shit!
@rafaelmillan2785 жыл бұрын
But didn’t look like that before,it has be a way to repair this station
@NightStars11225 жыл бұрын
Some stations were even worse than that
@edisone16 жыл бұрын
Almost had my "road test" in an R32 train. I was the only one in my class who liked operating those, so I was happy. But before it came to my turn, we were switched to the R46 - which I hated. I passed, anyway. Person observing us thought I was "too cautious" coming into stations, and wanted me to "scare" her. So I did - full speed, power on, right past the center of the station & then slammed the brakes in rapid bursts, like anti-lock car brakes, bring it to the exact stopping point. They wanted us to be aggressive, back then - to keep up the schedules, of course. Never mind running down people in the stations.
@salamdoodey86753 жыл бұрын
damn, respect to you og train operators
@noobo5693 жыл бұрын
lmao bro you daredevil
@TheStig_TG3 жыл бұрын
When was this?
@lopwr12122 жыл бұрын
@@TheStig_TG in the 90s
@TheStig_TG2 жыл бұрын
@@lopwr1212 it should be like that again lol. Because union square in 95 never happened lmao
@mitch45274 жыл бұрын
If anyone is wondering, it’s October of 2020 and the station is in the beginning stages of a complete rehabilitation. The R32 trains have been retired. Personally, I loved this station as it was at its most dilapidated, in the mid 1990s. Believe it or not, the station as show in this video was cleaned up somewhat. In the mid 1990s, the paint was peeling from the ceilings and there were long dead wires hanging from the ceiling where light fixtures used to be. It was a Magnificent Dungeon.
@TheLpbrennan9 жыл бұрын
I like the "SVBWAY ENTRANCE" signs, too. Gives it that touch of Ancient Rome!
@jaydottt_transitfanner3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the *SVBWAY*
@danjofromnyc42563 жыл бұрын
*svbway*
@therealchrisazitube Жыл бұрын
Ah, yes. The New York City Svbway!
@EXTREME59702 ай бұрын
-Subway- *svbway*
@cupcakes44447 жыл бұрын
i remember taking the J train to get off at this stop and i was disgusted. No reason it should look like this.
@0ffaI6 жыл бұрын
Chantel To be fair the J line is a terrible line all around, fitting station for a line slower than bus service
@faizbashaAirplanes6 жыл бұрын
Jeez, you'd never see such run down dorty stations and rolling stock like this in Asia. Its like a developing country, New York has no excuse for having such a bad metro system. Londons metro is the oldest yet its far far more modern.
@InchonDM4 жыл бұрын
The explanation is incredibly stupid. New York City does not control funding or operations of its own metro transit system. The New York City Subway falls under the jurisidiction of New York State's governor. NY's governor is often a man who does not want to give his upstate constituents the impression that he only cares about the City, and does this by not caring about the City. This has been especially true of NY's current governor, the loathesome political animal known as Andrew Cuomo. The result is that NYC's subway is starved for funding. And I mean STARVED. Some of the signals are still mechanical. Some of the rolling stock first hit the tracks in the 50's. It's an utter disgrace and continuing to not fund it plays dice with the largest city economy in the United States. But Andrew Cuomo is fucking worthless. And so it goes.
@faizbashaAirplanes4 жыл бұрын
@Spectrical that's how you get crime
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
Faiz Basha It’s an unwritten rule in NYC Don’t ride the subway at night alone
@faizbashaAirplanes4 жыл бұрын
@Spectrical Well perhaps there's no difference in crime which occurs but operating through the night opens up opportunities for general social welfare loss by irresponsible citizens. To me if there aren't that many people commuting or using the subway past midnight its seems very unworthy to not use that valuable time to carry out very needed maintenance. I'm from Singapore and over here the "MRT" closes at around 12am and 00:30am on the mainlines, they reopen at 4-5am where commuters are encouraged to commute earlier by discounted fares. If I'm out late beyond 12am, its unlikely shops are open but even still if I am its not such a big deal the trains are closed because I can just take the taxi or ride share which is very reasonably priced. New York has taxis and Car Sharing too right?
@Mimi-tu4fd4 жыл бұрын
We know in NYC. Let’s not forget the service we get. It’s HORRIBLE. Always problems with the tracks too. Or train traffic. Thank god I moved 😄
@Streetw1s3r6 жыл бұрын
I sort of like it, it has character. And sort of a look into the past of old dirty seedy New York. Also doesn't have billboards, advertisements, and screens all over the place, it isn't modernized and I hope it never becomes modernized. It's beautiful in it's own way.
@josephwalc14962 жыл бұрын
The Chambers St Station has been an example of neglect since the Transit Workers strike on Jan. 1, 1966 and the subsequent Fiscal Crisis during the mid 1970’s when New York City Transit Authority deferred maintenance during this period. NYC had a Civil Service freeze for most departments. The fire dept. layed off most of the probationary firefighters and a few fire houses were forced to close. The police, sanitation and most departments faced similar cut backs.Most Capital Budget items fell victim of the crisis. Rebuilding stations replacing out dated an worn sections of tracks etc were Capital Budget items. This left the Transit Authority with no option than to “let things just rot away”. The really insane thing was that the Chambers St Station was directly under NYC Municipal Building where the budget and fiscal offices were located.
@BL4CKKN1GHT6 жыл бұрын
With fares being $2.75 you would think the stations would look better
@ERICK-di1yz4 жыл бұрын
That's actually cheap tho
@ERICK-di1yz4 жыл бұрын
3 dollars to get from where you are to anywhere else in the city is actually a steal.
@rockvilleraven4 жыл бұрын
@@ERICK-di1yz On the Washington, DC Metro it can get up to $6 one way during rush hour and there's trackwork every weekend.
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
BL4CKKN1GHT Actually the Money they get is taken out of the MTA’s Funding The Subway is run by the State And the Governor takes funding out of them
@imvirgin27444 жыл бұрын
Nova Typhoon why won’t they let the mta keep the money if they did they would probably fix the system
@DannyJustiniano7 жыл бұрын
I must be crazy, but I find this disgusting, filthy place beautiful.
@adventureguy50887 жыл бұрын
Mario Justiniano well I mean your really won’t find a place like this anywhere else in the entire world...
@boejiden58516 жыл бұрын
I like its character. The aesthetic of the old corridors, signs, trains, and even the old fashioned tiles at the edges of the platform add such an indescribable (in a positive way) atmosphere to the location.
@Kanal7Indonesia6 жыл бұрын
No.
@joemartin12536 жыл бұрын
Yah must be stupid or blind this is an embarrassing piece of shit subway system!
@michaelmirraandmarc6 жыл бұрын
You could not have put that in better words. It looked exactly the same in 1979 when I was 9 years old. I was fascinated by it's 'run down ugliness' back then. Amazing how I appreciate this 'ugliness' even more in 2018--after not having seen it in so many years.
@parismatch69427 жыл бұрын
Chambers is not even the worst looking one of the bunch. The Bowery stop on the J/Z line is absolutely decrepit.
@1575murray3 жыл бұрын
@Owly123 Only half of it was abandoned. However it is one of the least used stations in Manhattan.
@Din9r_7 жыл бұрын
I wonder why every J and Z train station has to be so run down and nasty
@GIJew6 жыл бұрын
Because it runs through the most ghetto parts of New York. You could spend $20 trillion to fix all the stations, and within one week the idiots living near them will make them look just like this again.
@galaxtm67946 жыл бұрын
Tyler Goldenhart You can't really blame them for running it 24/7 when people have to use the subways late or early...
@0fficialdregs6 жыл бұрын
you can blame them because the uk system is similar but they give employees 3-6 hrs to conduct maintenance on certain stations or sections of tracks.
@MIkeDye200202holla6 жыл бұрын
Dregs you do realize while that system works for maintenance. Now they are pushing for more 24/7 service such as night tube, night overground, thameslink
@0fficialdregs6 жыл бұрын
they're pushing but no in active yet
@ACLTony9 жыл бұрын
Ancient R32's? Solid, well built trains that when properly maintained could literally last another decade. To me, the most annoying feature of the new "techno-box" trains are those skin crawling violin-like sounds they make when stopping and starting due to electrical transitional changing. The new IRT trains seem accelerate more slowly that their predecessors. I'll take a Redbird or R-32 any day!
@sebastianbermeo88958 жыл бұрын
I think people in NYC prefer the R-160s because it's obviously newer, and more clean. Looks more fancier than the old R-32s and the R-46s, people would rather have a ride in a simple train than in a throwback train going to work, or coming home.
@GIJew6 жыл бұрын
Your sexual fetish for these old trains is ridiculous. Even if they might last another 40 years, do those old shitty trains accurately represent New York? Not at all. We're not the same slummy place from 50 years ago. Having to ride these trains every day to work makes me thing I'm living in a third world country. Hell, I'm sure the fucking villages of india have better looking trains than the R32s. These old shits need to go, and I can't wait until they're all removed and replaced. Good riddance. I'd personally love to use some of them as target practice.
@WitchidWitchid6 жыл бұрын
We're going to bring back some grafitti covered R-16's just for you to ride on.
@ACLTony6 жыл бұрын
Wow, you have some sick twisted issues, dude. Where do you get "sexual feish" from. I don't have a sexual fetish. I was simply being nostalgic as these were the trains of my childhood, the trains I rode with my family. BTW: it's obvious you never visited a 3rd world country. I did. Even an IRT Low-V would be welcomed in some of the places I visited. Anyway, you'll get your wish as by 2021-22 the last of the R32's should be retired with the majority scrapped and a few saved for museums. The new trains are nice and efficient, but having worked on transit equipment before, I doubt that they will last 50 years. Long term durability has been deliberately eliminated from LRV and heavy transit vehicle manufacturing equation. The R32's symbolize an era when American manufacturers built transportation equipment to exceed its rated life expectancy which is what makes "these old shits" so special.
@kevinduval3696 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but these old disguising, nasty, trains need to go. I do not care about nostalgia or anything of the sort if it relates to public opinion and use, meaning that if I have to take a run down 1900s era train because some 45 year old thinks they're cools cause it was from his childhood. MY.ASS. Most people don't like these nasty trains because people in NYC work and go to school. Not to mention the number of tourist who take those trains and scoff at the idea of people actually taking these beasts compared to their home country's systems. I'd rather ride the new R201 series that are clean, nice, safer, and more appealing to the average new yorker.
@olivergray13678 жыл бұрын
These conditions would not be tolerated on the London Underground
@OakLaneTV8 жыл бұрын
Neither in philly
@vader971008 жыл бұрын
There is no money in the budget for repairs... The L train is overcrowded... Gonna be shutdown for 18 months, the 2nd Ave line will never gets its full funding for everything, Bill DeBlasio wants to put all the money into subway grates that high heels can't trip on, and the government just cares about parks only without the sense of travel... We the people in NYC are all doomed *big sound of thunder*
@blue3877 жыл бұрын
The state runs the MTA, not the city. Andrew Cuomo is the problem.
@vader971007 жыл бұрын
Blue387 love to see someone take photos of this, Canal, all other J/Z stops and place it on his doorstep then maybe he'll get an idea on where our money needs to go. At least he got some sense recently.
@Cyberkensai7 жыл бұрын
Not now they wouldn't, though back in the 90's a lot of London Underground stations didn't look that different to this. Check out Bank in the 80's and 90's. It was practically rotting away.
@sidrad3 жыл бұрын
It's more than just run-down, it's unfinished. If the station and tunnels had been completed, it would've been the access for trains to get onto the Brooklyn Bridge. There's finished access tunnel adjacent that got repurposed for storing wine directly under the bridge's anchorage. Trains exiting Chambers Street could've taken a loop of track that would put them onto the Manhattan Bridge, but the connecting track under Christie Street serving the sixth avenue and broadway lines, which opened in the 60s, severed the connection.
@Nicholas_-vh6xg7 жыл бұрын
Personally I love the look of these old run down stations, it's like walking into a time warp where time has stood still. I'm a sucker for nostalgia especially anything NY Subway related. I like the look of it as it is now filthy and decrepit as opposed to the sparkling new and clean stations that have been renovated. Leave it as it is I say!
@dr.heinzdoofenshmirtz35076 жыл бұрын
I agree 100%. If there is one thing I can say, it's that I can't remember many stations by looks, but I always will remember this station because of how old and run down it looks. I like it very much.
@AdamSmith-gs2dv6 жыл бұрын
It's still sad though, this could be one of the best stations on the line and instead it's one of the worst. They don't need to renovate it, they just need to clean it up and restore it (ie fixing broke tiles, repair the ceiling ect).
@R32-DreamyNYC6 жыл бұрын
Agree especially when an R32 or R42 J train comes in
@joemartin12536 жыл бұрын
Nicholas Milano your kidding right???
@jerrypeukert57325 жыл бұрын
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Exactly true it doesn't need an expensive renovation just clean it and repair.
@jackmorrison73796 жыл бұрын
The story here is changing work patterns, and economic class. This station is served by lines that do not reach Midtown Manhattan. This station only serves the courts and the municipal offices. Further up the line (Bowery) is the area that until the 1980's when it changed, was NYC's Skid Row. Unsavory and dangerous. The lines then go across the Williamsburg Bridge to Brooklyn and out to neighborhoods that were, and in some places still are, black and Hispanic dominated. Then look at the grand entrance at the start of the video and note the signage showing the green marked 4 5 6 lines reachable from the station mezzanine but in their own clean modernized station. Money follows money, and it follows numbers of riders too. This station was built for huge numbers of riders which no longer exist because the routes don't serve places where the jobs, the shops, the hotels and the money are located now.
@John802208 жыл бұрын
Chambers not only was a hub for the BMT when it opened, but it also handled Long Island Railroad trains. That service lasted only for a few years after its opening (the LIRR and the current J/Z line had a connecting ramp in East New York). Being built concurrently with and under the Municipal Building is one of the things that makes Chambers look the way it does -- when the pipes leak in the Municipal Building, what comes out heads for the platform level.
@jordanbatista13589 жыл бұрын
The mta needs to spend time to fix this station. They seriously need to put in work into this station.
@acegarr229 жыл бұрын
+Jordan Batista they might fix it when they get newer trains like the R201 if I'm correct
@matthewleon73005 жыл бұрын
Jordan Batista They are going to for the ESI Phase 2 or up!
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
M3lgar 5 No they can’t fix it if their money keeps getting pulled by the governor
@grazz7865 Жыл бұрын
I love the high ceilings and tile work on this station. It would have been super cool with the old incandescent light bulbs instead of the fluorescent. This station was a terminal for the “RR” rush hours only in the 80s. The M train now uses the F line through Manhattan so the J train is really the only train that serves this big station at this time.
@ronsanto25048 жыл бұрын
thanks for posting this..its been 25 yrs since I regularly took this train from Pace university to Glendale queens the M. It was wonderfully run down paint peeling etc but it was a visual that stuck with me. I am actually happy that its still a less dilapidated station and now want to visit it again!
@rudolphguarnacci1972 жыл бұрын
Hope you got that chance.
@8avexp8 жыл бұрын
This station needs renovations of Ellis Island proportions.
@kittycatbuttbutt8 жыл бұрын
I went to this station today and thought I was still asleep in a bad dream. It is much worse than it looks in the video. Could be a scene in any scary movie. Most scary subway station I've ever been to.
@валентинпаршин-э3ь6 жыл бұрын
Joanna Chong Shen I agree many new York city subway stations look like scenery for a horror movie
@валентинпаршин-э3ь6 жыл бұрын
I recommend to visit the Moscow metro . Many stations are a work of art . I recommend you to look at the metro stations: Mayakovskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Kropotkinskaya, Komsomolskaya
@joemartin12536 жыл бұрын
Joanna Chong Shen Most scariest subway in the world!
@валентинпаршин-э3ь6 жыл бұрын
Joe Martin I am agree with you NYC mta Look like a WC
@DenverRailFan9 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how the city/transit authorities are able to keep others stations looking great, but then let stations like this one go.
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
Denver Rail Fan Because It’s the Nassau Street Line Anything to make new their the locals just fuck it up
@ss04to064 жыл бұрын
It might be the cost. This station is massive with many platforms and tracks that are not in service and it does not seem to have heavy usage. The MTA seems to give priority to more heavily used stations.
@alexharris24952 жыл бұрын
Lol. Clearly you haven't been on the G
@MrJflamewalker6 жыл бұрын
I cant believe it by the the way beautiful film and documentary , I cant believe that I been away from New York city for nearly or more than 30 years and that station still looks the same like nothing has change still looks horrible after so many stations have been upgraded its a damn shame , and if they decide to anything about it ,it will be an excuse to raise the fare .
@OakLaneTV8 жыл бұрын
It's pathetic how the fancy R160 comes to this dump
@morganlimes5 жыл бұрын
OakLaneTV thats why they got replaced eith r32s and r42s and most r160s went to the C lmao. But they got r179 now so the r32s and r42s are going to the B and the r68 to the Q
@redbird1train8554 жыл бұрын
Morgan Limes when is the b receiving the r32s/r42s?
@joshuaedwards58224 жыл бұрын
But Canal St, Bowery St & Chambers St need a facelift & Dr Phil counseling 😭
@adamtowler62736 жыл бұрын
In the 90's this station was in an even worse condition, with light fittings missing and hanging from the roof, and damaged signage and tiling. The only reason it got some minor improvements made was that the whole station was filled with dust, rubble and debris on 9/11and therefore had to be fixed up somewhat in prder to be safe for the public to use. Still a fascinating station though, unlike anything here in Britain
@paktype4 жыл бұрын
The station is being rehabbed now in 2020. The remaining side platform, visible since 1931, has been walled off.
@1575murray6 жыл бұрын
Since 2010 the M does not serve this station in regular service. It now uses the Chrystie St. connector and continues on the route formerly used by the V train to Forest Hills. This video must have been taken when there was a G.O. where M trains operated to Chambers St. (where they once terminated many years ago).
@BXBorn92HarlemRaised35th7 жыл бұрын
Been to this station 100s of times , it has a real old New York vibe to it
@vanpilatus78477 жыл бұрын
Very Creepy Looking Station
@argopunk6 жыл бұрын
Cool looking station. Love the high ceilings and old-school white tiles. Not to mention the mosaics. Needs some TLC, for sure, but it screams character.
@FinlayLavery3036 жыл бұрын
God I love it, as a photographer I could just spend all day down in that station getting shots dripping with atmosphere. Keep it in a rundown state, give's it way more character. Better than being all gleaming, modern and shiny and covered with posters for Broadway musicals and the Samaritans.
@oscar.gonzalez6 жыл бұрын
A good scrubbing and steam clean will brighten it up. Along with repair and restoration.
@vader971007 жыл бұрын
The whole J/Z line can use an overhaul, by completley refurbishing Chambers, Canal, Bowery, Fulton, Broad and Essex. Then, highly consider a long term project to replace the Jamaica line (with the Myrtle Av line probably going with it), you CAN make it totally underground, and with proper planning, and reliable support to keep a steady budget, this COULD be possible. But I don't know if NY officials will ever see eye to eye on this. maybe some day.
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
Chad M Nah not gonna happen 1: It’s the Nassau Street line You try to make it new the Locals Will fuck it up anyways 2: Where are they suppose to get the money to make a Line that is 95% Elevated Underground You increase the fares for this All hell breaks loose 3: The governor controls the MTA and pulls their funding he doesn’t give 2 shits about the Subway
@migshumble13514 жыл бұрын
The "bowery st. stop on the J train" is on that top 3. K2 smokers, piss, feces and its falling apart like this one. I was going to call it #1 until the video kept playing but the competition is fierce
@ss04to068 жыл бұрын
The M no longer serves this station. As of 2010, the M operates on 6th Ave from Metropolitan Av, Queens through Brooklyn, into Manhattan and then back to Forest Hills-71 Av in Queens. The condition this station is in is truly shocking. Hopefully the MTA will overhaul it; it's been overhauling other stations in the system (albeit stations with perhaps more passenger usages).
@basictransportenthusiast43866 жыл бұрын
Francisco Miranda yes but the m on weekends uses the Nassau street and myrtle ave lines and runs a 4 car service but I think it uses Essex street as a terminus now
@joestrike85373 жыл бұрын
My favorite part was the people boarding a train under a sign reading "All service on the opposite track." (!) Not sure if someone else mentioned this, but the reason the station is so spacious is at one time people used get off THE TRAINS TERMINATING AT THE MANHATTAN END OF THE BROOKLYN BRIDGIE (yes, trains used to run across the bridge, but they didn't pollute the air enough so they got rid of them) and onto the subway via this station.
@Dresfvae7 жыл бұрын
They need to renovate this station. I don't even live on the Nassau Street Line but sometimes I like to come here because I like the architecture. I hope the MTA fixes up Chambers Street
@jessiebanks72747 жыл бұрын
This Station is gonna collapse. If MTA don't Fix it or they can just close the station build a new one.
@emteaay24773 жыл бұрын
They can’t build a new one they can just renovate the entire station
@ne_skier38324 жыл бұрын
R42s were built in the early 70s, not the 90s. R32s were built in the early-mid 60s and are the oldest trains in the system. They are slated for removal in the coming few years. The R42s have already been officially retired but are currently seeing some use due to a door issue with some newer trains.
@JoshDoesTravel6 жыл бұрын
For as old as these are, the R32s shown in the video still look pretty good
@thevultrantransituniverse14877 жыл бұрын
If the TTC would have a subway station like this, they would extensively renovated!
@davegreenlaw56546 жыл бұрын
This station is over a century old, while the oldest stations on the Yonge Line aren't even 65 years old, so we got some time to catch up...and if it weren't for the PRESTO upgrades quite a few of them would be looking close to this bad. (Mind you, some of the stations on the University Line are *really* showing their age - even though that line is a good decade younger.)
@LEWISPEAR7 жыл бұрын
R42s were originally built in the late 60s, but were overhauled in the early 90s
@AxisX78 жыл бұрын
As fitting as it may seem that a series of stations as old-looking as this (and Bowery) to be served by train types as old as the SMEEs, I'm very curious as to why they finally decided to make the exchange of R32s & R160s between the C & J/Z lines permanent.
@raveli11257 жыл бұрын
apparently the air- con units on the R32 are not the best underground, the they swapped them with the new R160
@trainmaniacstudios82168 жыл бұрын
Wow, looks like a very interesting place to visit. Sort of reminds of the mess the Moorgate to Finsbury Park line in London was like a few years back. Good video :)
@metalbowling6 жыл бұрын
I take the AC everyday and I don't mind the dilapidated Cs anymore than the new ones. Air conditioning still works. And consider that those ancient R32 trains are still running...50+ years later. This may be the one instance where the MTA has displayed fiscal responsibility in as many years.
@Elena-er7zp6 жыл бұрын
why can't all those rich people who donate to the museums and the arts and Central Park pick a station and become it's Patron? Fix it up, maintain it and slap their name on it. These stations are part of NYC history.
@DogeCharger6 жыл бұрын
Sir Topham Hat would be very cross
@kbron32507 жыл бұрын
At 5:43 caption says R42 built in the late 90s- well you are off by about 30 years. R42s were built between 1969-1970 in St. Louis, MO- the famed St. Louis Car Company.
@InventorZahran6 жыл бұрын
Those shiny and clean R-32 subway cars make this station look all the more dire, derelict, decrepit, and dilapidated...
@LouieV67 жыл бұрын
Another station that has seen better days is the 3av 138th street on the 6 line in The Bronx. It's in terrible condition and needs some work.
@selkmanu16797 жыл бұрын
It will be renovated soon.
@focusdakid8 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this station for the first time coming from the 5 line on the way to Brooklyn. This was 2001. Creeped me the hell out because I winded up on the back end of the station where there was the least amount of light and that dark tunnel. I actually grew fond of this station later in life only cause it's my preferred choice to BK (L too local). Hope it gets the fix it deserves. 102 years old. wow
@ZacheryAllanStarkey6 жыл бұрын
I use this station all the time, it's def one of the most run down in the system, I don't know about the most run down though. Thank you for filming and uploading this!
@aqua2poweros6992 жыл бұрын
that would be Bowery. 2 stations above chambers. And for the IRT, its 191 st on the 1 line
@williamscoufaras70455 жыл бұрын
You know this actually could have been a really nice (if not the nicest) train station in the system if they restored it back to its original glory
@blaazer94732 жыл бұрын
Yeah same tiles open up the middle islands, and same color pallet. We don’t need any yuppie art garbage.
@marquiesewatson28116 жыл бұрын
These Guys Spent Almost 800 Million On The Next Station South, (Fulton Street) But Won’t Take 2 Million To Fix This Station But, I get why they didn’t fix it. It’s Under The Municipal Building, Which Requires A lot Of Columns. Fixing The Platform Can Cause Damage To The Building.
@nancyhernandez78334 жыл бұрын
Today it celebrates its 115th anniversary, opened in 1904!
@vonmazur19 жыл бұрын
When I worked for Metro Region of Penn Central, most of the stations were like this...Nostalgia!!
@PinkLaffs9 жыл бұрын
Not to mention some of the facts are wrong. R42s were built in the late 1960s, rebuilt in the 1990s.
@Luftschlange9 жыл бұрын
I know, that was my mistake. I had corrected it in the errata of the video description after posting the video.
@mintuchowdhury19749 жыл бұрын
+Luftschlange Did you notice that I live in Jamaica-179th Street?
@tyshahalsey90578 жыл бұрын
+Luftschlange you're right that place is in dire condition and needs to be cleaned
@mzcat768 жыл бұрын
Why the Last Stop Announcement loud?😐😐
@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa27 жыл бұрын
It,s. Not. A. City. HAll
@Jasper-oi9dh6 жыл бұрын
LU is quite a lot cleaner, with the exception of Lambeth North and northern located Bakerloo stations of course.
@cheekibreekidude20084 жыл бұрын
*"Hey,instead of fixing this station,lets do Fulton Street Instead!"*
@emteaay24773 жыл бұрын
Instead of upgrading Fulton St why won’t we make you shut the duck up you NYC subway hater
@lscarver56 жыл бұрын
There's no argument that this station is rundown and raggedy looking. The 138th street and 3rd Avenue station on the No. 6 line is no bargain either.
@ejm12254 жыл бұрын
If you ask me, Chambers Street seems more like an active urban ruin.
@TheLpbrennan9 жыл бұрын
I like the commentary. These videos document a moment in the life of the subway and the information helps the viewer understand the context. Frankly, I find this method less of a distraction than the Closed Captioning, which pastes a large black box across the bottom of the screen. It can be turned off, of course, but the text is useful. Besides, even when I was there in September, I found the PA announcements so distorted by the echo or drowned out by the noise that it was sometimes difficult to understand what was being said!
@arifakyuz76737 жыл бұрын
Clean the station up, reopen the middle platform for rush hours, and you have a pretty decent station.
@williamgottlieb87236 жыл бұрын
This station looks absolutely beautiful. As long as free samples of Chanel no 1 are kept from being sprayed on the platform, there is no need to change a thing about it.
@rachelbruce8398 жыл бұрын
At 7:29 the original MTA logo is made visible by a half-ripped sticker of the current MTA insignia.
@crowmigration82456 жыл бұрын
It's like the apocalypse happened and the few people remaining are just continuing with their daily lives as best they can.
@vader971009 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or does the BMT Nassau line have some of the worst stations in the system?
@yardlet67 жыл бұрын
It ain't you.
@skrakaayyyyy_itzyostep6 жыл бұрын
Yes they do. Chambers Bowery and Canal have abadonded tracks.
@ninofromkitchennightmares14974 жыл бұрын
Chad M Worst stations yep And if you fix them the People who live their will just fuck it up again
@LouieV66 жыл бұрын
The 3 Av-138 st Station on the 6 line in the Bronx is also badly rundown and needs a makeover
@8avexp5 жыл бұрын
A chamber of horrors. You almost expect Vincent Price to emerge from behind a pillar, in a vampire costume and say, "Good evening."
@Organgrinder10107 жыл бұрын
Excellent editing and commentary. Dilapidated but fascinating living bit of transit history.
@dzy017 жыл бұрын
The interior color scheme of the R32's and R42's is similar to the TTC's M-1 series built by the MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works) in the early 1960's.
@davidhutchinson52336 жыл бұрын
I used to go thru that station regularly at one point.
@graffmixer6 жыл бұрын
Bowery Station is another one....They need to work on both stations ASAP instead of worrying about others
@queenkudo6 жыл бұрын
Omg, this is the train station I was talking about. It's so rundown that you can literally film a horror movie down there.
@RichHomieTjuan2 жыл бұрын
And let’s not forget about those sharp turns after the station which causes hella noise from the trains coming from Fulton. I hope they consider redoing this station the potential for this station is endless. The current state is ridiculous. I moved to the J line in 95 this station looks exactly the same. What’s funny is the 2 stations before it (canal,Fulton) got redone. Even the connecting City Hall IRT got redone. Once u transfer at BB it’s like a whole different world lol
@CrAzEDxKILLAx236 жыл бұрын
It's sad to say that it's about to be 2018 and this station still looks like this. SMDH !!!!
@jamietm996 жыл бұрын
This looks like all train stations up in the Bronx.
@syrax101 Жыл бұрын
Creepiest train station in the subway system… I was nervous taking this at night… and it would be eerily quiet… lol
@1940limited7 жыл бұрын
The old station sure has character despite it's somewhat run down condition. I remember NY subway trains much older than these. There was a window in the front where you could stand and gt the same view of the tracks as the engineer. It was fascinating. The Hudson tubes had the same feature on the older trains.
@TheSwamynathan5 жыл бұрын
Doing some patchwork replacing with New Tiles on the Pillars particularly should make it look better;
@pSL-oy5gl6 жыл бұрын
This station needs a massive renovation.
@chewbacca902104 жыл бұрын
I think the City Hall station is worse actually for the JMZ lines
@tinagreen73363 жыл бұрын
Who ever is watching this in 2021 you guys are a MTA lover
@BillRicker7 жыл бұрын
ooh, that is sad. Needs a whole lot of wall restoration. New signage and the lovely arcade at the surface just makes the shabby tiles look shabbier. OTOH at least the original 1911 mosaic details in side platform walls weren't covered over in an updating (as Boston has recently reversed at several stations)
@sopaman12345 жыл бұрын
5:44 The R42 was not built in the late 90's it was built in 1970...None of them as of 2018 are in service...
@theroyalcrownedtiger29466 жыл бұрын
In Canada, Toronto, I have seen similar looking trains to the R32 and the R42 which is the SRT trains.
@voidenter6 жыл бұрын
Eh.. who even uses chambers street station? city hall, lawyers, judges and downtown folk? The R32's are like the best train. Biggest floor plan and biggest benches.. R 42's are good too. more floor space. My butt isn't in your face if I'm standing and you are sitting like the new trains.. They still kinda cared about passenger space in the 1960's... It would be good if you had pics from 1915 or so to compare, with new clean tiles, I bet it looks spiffy. those Rust stains aren't too bad, as long as it's structurally sound.
@jermainerace41566 жыл бұрын
Those older trains looks to be in excellent shape though, they remind me of the 70s-80s Philly subway cars.
@Nelegyenmabenneanevem6 жыл бұрын
Your 60 years old metro trains looks better than how our 60 years old soviet made metro trains looked like. They have been replaced last year, thank God.
@DanTheCaptain6 жыл бұрын
It truely loks like somethng out of a horror movie. How is this tollerated?
@allstardm72335 жыл бұрын
They’d have to shut this station down for almost a whole year to renovate it
@JohnSmith-sj9dk9 жыл бұрын
they should try to make this like the new hudson yards station
@alexthemtaandr211weatherfa27 жыл бұрын
Nope
@CharlieND6 жыл бұрын
Easier said than done.
@clixi6523 жыл бұрын
it’s the Nassau street line it basically runs through the hood parts of the city it would literally look the same in a week
@jakenolan25725 жыл бұрын
November 2019 and it still looks like that
@shadowmamba954 жыл бұрын
This is what I think of the J, M & Z trains be like. On regular times, J & M trains are on. The J will move all the way to Broad Street, while the M ends at Chambers Street. During rush hours, the J will be pushed back to Chambers Street, allowing the M & Z trains to past Broad Street to the 4th Avenue Line. While the M goes to Bay Ridge - 95th Street, the Z will go to Bay Parkway. Then on late nights, the J returns to normal while the M ends in Myrtle Avenue.
@TheColorfulPube6 жыл бұрын
I still think the governor does it on purpose, making the station nearest to city hall the worst.