Subway Secrets part 2 - Abandoned Platforms - D on the F line

Wow you folks really like this one eh? Guess I'll have to do another. In the meantime, here's the first one:
Subway Secrets 1, abandoned entrances et al. • M 1 E C Subway Secrets...
Hey everybody! Did another spelunk of the hidden gems of the NYC Transit System. These episodes require quite a bit more work to make, so I hope you enjoy! Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe!
Nevins st lower platform
Bergen st lower platform
Bowling Green shuttle platform
Atlantic Avenue tunnel
Myrtle Avenue platform
Sources:
www.columbia.edu/~brennan/aban...
ny.curbed.com/maps/nyc-subway...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobble_...

[@joshuaafrifa8134]

lol once you got to the Nevins Street station I was screaming “DONT LEAVE, LOOK THROUGH THE HOLES” Glad u realized.

[@iiVyyx3]

Pl

[@ajs11201]

I've been in the Atlantic Avenue tunnel, in fact, I've been down there a couple times while it was still a legal thing to do. It's quite fascinating, really.

[@joshuaafrifa8134]

Ok so for the Bowling Green station, the signs you saw were actually vintage. It wasn’t a 2 and 5 train sign u saw. You were looking at old 4 train bullet that was pink (from 1967 -79). The 4 originated and terminated at Flatbush Avenue, then It swapped with the 2, which was originally terminating/originating at Crown Heights / New Lots Ave. The green was the 5. U could actually still see a bigger sign of the pink (4) and the green (5) bullet hanging from the ceiling. You gotta angle it lol

[@poohmaki0219]

I greed

[@poohmaki0219]

I greed

[@hulloits4421]

everytime I hear abandoned platform I think of Hoyt-Skamimmyhorn St.

[@sajidmahmood8383]

I like TGV

[@thecarchannel4499]

What about 91 street and city hall

[@RedArrow73]

Schermerhorn.

[@joestrike8537]

@@RedArrow73 I like hulloits' version better.

[@Zamiwashere]

You Mean Hoyt Schmerhorn St Set Of Michael Jackson Bad

[@jasonmintzchannel8902]

Supr-toe: World’s oldest *Ad plays* MOLD ARMOR! Me: World’s oldest mold armor?

[@jazielreacts3998]

Lol

[@thesteamdieselandelectricr3299]

LOL

[@oldunion]

9:46, clues to "lower level" are the vent grates below the platform where you can see lights sometimes and hear the express or re-routed trains below. Also re-routed trains cause the platform to rumble significantly indicating you are on a steel structure not solid ground.

[@waycon2056]

I went on a tour of the Atlantic Ave tunnel back in the 80s with Robert Diamond. The access was through a manhole in the street at an intersection on Atlantic Ave(I don't remember what cross street). It was one of the coolest things I ever did. I wish they would open it for tours again.

[@sidrad]

Atlantic Ave and Court Street. My family went on one of Robert's tours in the 90s; I was really young and got spooked by the darkness, so we left partway through.

[@JeffFrmJoisey]

I took one of Bob Diamond's trips into the Atlantic Av tunnel in the early 1990s. Entered via a manhole in the middle of the street; electricity was provided by wires hooked into a lamppost base. The 1st room was claustrophobic and appeared to be hand dug. Went thru the door and down the steep ladder/steps into the tunnel. It was amazing. You could see where one of the tracks were removed in the soil. There were also a bunch of intrusions in the ceiling of the brick tunnel, it looked like the Phone Company ran some wires thru the tunnel. There was info painted next to the holes about the phone lines there. At one point, they turned off the lights just to show how dark it was inside the tunnel - you can't see your hand in front of your eyes!! I guess we spent about a 1/2 hour down there looking around in awe and amazement. Somewhere I have the pics I took (35mm film)!!!

[@andrewpalm2103]

;Thanks for this interesting and informative video, ST. Keep 'em coming! Cheers from Wisconsin.

[@yuuycockdemnations69420]

Trespasser I'm calling 911 I'm kidding

[@jellyplayztrainzzz5591]

Lol

[@razer5645]

Hello elevating

[@yuuycockdemnations69420]

@@razer5645 ea sports

[@PureHydroo]

I'm laughing so hard rn. Wheezing.

[@or1761]

Congrats on 17k GGST!

[@theautistictransitfan]

I’ve been through basically every single abandoned station on the subway, Myrtle Av on the Q is by FAR my favorite

[@lanelassiter]

Hi have you been to WoodHaven on Atlantic Ave?

[@1995Jamar]

Love seeing things from my part of Brooklyn, and seeing the lower part of Bergen St station is really neat when the F goes express.

[@jendel42750]

The lower level of Bergen Street Station can be seen in the 1990 film "Jacob's Ladder," complete with a four-car consist of R10s running through it!

[@unclemattsify]

Been wondering about that mural for years now. Thanks!

[@HecMangual]

Very nice and interesting video. I like the way you narrated. Informative and with a little bit of humor, just subscribed😃👍

[@rayvegamusic]

The pathway under the tracks on Nevins Street exposing the lower level was completely open (without walls) in the mid 1970s. I crossed it many times! Love this video!

[@niceasjelly7732]

Omg, I live right on top of the cobble hill tunnel and never heard of it! I’ll definitely try the way to get inside!

[@botmes4044]

What's nice is if the MTA ever decouple the F from the G at Bergen St and run the F as Express only, then the platforms and stairs are already there. No heavy construction required. All they would need is a good refurbishment and you'd have quite the nifty transfer.

[@harveywachtel1091]

The people who live in Carroll Gardens would never let that happen. It might have been less unthinkable if Bergen Street had been built as a normal single-level express station but Smith Street is apparently too narrow at Bergen.

[@botmes4044]

@@harveywachtel1091 so not because there's a transfer, but because that transfer involves stairs... Gotcha. Folks will make the lamest excuses to shut down a potential service increase.

[@kleve_1143]

I love it!

[@ShaQuilaRoberts]

Popped up in my suggestion and you know what... I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought. You should take this to public access. (I live in Manhattan so I only know the MNN title but the other boroughs have film classes for $25. They teach you how to make your show or shows like this fun trip and you’ll be put on TV) I sound like an ad but I really enjoyed this and your voice is fun and kept me entertained 😍 oh and the shoes !!! We gotta get those kicks on TV !!!

[@thealmightydoge5653]

I once went inside the abandoned 18th street station on the Lexington line it was really cool. I also visited the abandoned shed at the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal in Liberty state park a few weeks ago in New Jersey. Really cool to see!

[@WebSoak]

When you take the Q to 72 st from 63 & back there is an off ramp tunnel for the future planned T. It can either stay this way for ever to be "abandoned" or be built.

[@done1675]

The Atlantic Avenue tunnel entrance is easy to find - Bob Diamond (who discovered it in 1980 or so) gave tours of it for decades and there is lots of footage of it on YT (the entrance is via the manhole right in the middle of the intersection). Not trespassing kind of defeats the purpose of these videos, or at least the fun of them. But I'm a fan of anyone who has an interest in the subways system and abandoned platforms/tunnels. I feel fortunate to have grown up here and to be old enough to have had the chance to explore them all in person before 2001 when trespassing wasn't as big of a deal. But seriously, I really enjoyed the video!

[@marcosynoa5660]

Very cool video! I used to have to commute from Queens to Brooklyn for work (NYU) at one point and would utilize the entrance you've discovered daily lol. On a related note, the abandoned platforms at Hoyt-Schermerhorn have always piqued my interest.

[@richietattersall2122]

There was a point when they ran express trains that used those outer tracks to the Aqueduct Race Track.

[@denniscembecit5619]

Wow 🤩 make more vids of this I love it

[@mooik1_88]

6:35 fun fact, the original 1969 myrtle ave elevated M line actually terminated right here

[@harveywachtel1091]

Actually a block west at Jay Street. When El service over the Brooklyn Bridge was eliminated a paper transfer to the A presumably to rep ln ace access to downtown Manhattan. For some reason, at least when I rode it in the sixties, the transfer was available only in the late evenings and nights when the stations west of Broadway were unmanned and fares were collected on board the trains.

[@collectivelyimprovingtrans2460]

Wow Great video.

[@MapleManYT]

This guy: opens a door at bergen street and closes it in fear of breaking law Me: literally walks across an abandoned rail bridge that was sealed off and illegally enters the other side

[@Amfitri0n]

Wow! It's cool!!! U r the best!!! 😁😁😁

[@neilfraser1235]

I took the tunnel tour with Bob Diamond back in 2008. I know exactly how to get in. There’s a manhole in the direct center of Atlantic ave across from the Trader Joe's building about a foot away from the white stripes of the crosswalk. Bob would setup a little workman's barrier around the manhole and the tour group would descend a latter to get into the tunnel.

[@cpnscarlet]

Not bad, but here's a secret to research - WHY did the local tracks of the IND Crosstown line break away from the express tracks before 15th St Prospect Park and then rejoin them before Ft Hamilton Parkway while the express tracks head toward the station under Prospect Park. There were at least two easier ways to build this line through Windsor Terrace.

[@wonkyjkdd]

that bergen st platform i went inside but it was amazing so many hidden gems in subways stations

[@RonDavisPhotos]

The Bowling Green Platform used to be open. I think they blocked the platform more recently, i wanna say within the past 20 years. But i think thats more due to MTA not wanting Conductors accidentally opening up on the wrong side.

[@harveywachtel1091]

The shuttle platform was only a couple of car lengths long, at the south end of the station. I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure a conductor at the middle of a through train would have been facing a blank wall on that side mlm

[@alb12345672]

Don't know how this video popped up but it was nice seeing metrotech, since I graduated in 1995 from Polytech. looked almost the same. Brought a tear to my eye! D was a Brighton line then, never ran to Jay. And I see Lawrence Street station is gone too :lol:

[@oldunion]

BERGEN: see the X on all the tiles in the stairwell? When they decided to remove all tile (because of water issues that were collapsing sections of tile) they score them with a cutter so that when they begin to chip away at the tile they more easily break off and apart. Ceramic tile is like glass where you dont need to do much but score or severely scratch it to allow it to break on that line. So clearly they got to this section of the tile in the stairwell and stopped work. Also the block wall on the right from the blurry photo of the stairwell indicates that the stairwell was open to the fare control area to the right, even if it was kept separated by fencing. It must have been put up at the same time as the doors and when they re-tiled Bergen station. Bergen station's orginial tiles were the same as Carroll with the pearlescent green you see there.

[@8avexp]

I still remember when D trains ran on the Culver line prior to November 26, 1967.

[@princessc.j.6192]

I like these travels and thank u for not getting into trouble , its worth the effort

[@bnywtrains9482]

Didn’t know you were a Columbia alum! I applied a few years back but sadly got waitlisted and didn’t have the time to wait. I wish I could’ve gone there!

[@lasttake5165]

Looking at Nevins was very Dope im a check that out one day

[@anotherview9604]

The lower level of the Nevins St station was initially constructed to make connections to the Manhattan Bridge through DeKalb Ave Station. This was before the BRT decided to use a 10 foot wide car width instead of the 8 foot 9 inch wide of the IRT cars.

[@shaneclarke6307]

Gold st station entrance is located on the side of gas station. Yellow metal cover is covering the stairs. Don't try to open it! It's alarmed! Another yellow cover is across the street in front of FDNY building I believe.

[@Astrochorius]

WOAH Its a new series!!!!!

[@mrjoepep302]

it was a series the WHOLE time :/

[@jaquariousbondingletonthe1206]

How coincidental that this comes out a day after I got to see a close up of the abandoned 91 st on the 1 train. Coincidence I THINK NOT

[@richietattersall2122]

It was originally 3 Separate Companies, that's the reason that at some Stations depending on which Train Platform you're on, they have different names even though it's the same Station, they never dealt with it.

[@TheMrAriesmndstmltr]

I found out about brennen page about 5 or more years ago. The F train express lower level was a thing in the past but I guess they revamped it for the pandemic

[@Lil_half_cut]

I like nyc subway videos for some reason

[@agr804]

11:57 lol that’s an XN40

[@aargh69]

One entrance to Bob Diamond's tunnel under Atlantic Avenue is a manhole in the middle of the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street. There was a picture of me climbing down that manhole that appeared on the front page of the New York Daily News sometime in the 1980s. Harvey

[@gigachad3674]

supertoe do the 9th avenue station, the 91st street station, city hall lower level on the R and W and the bowery/canal street platforms 3 and 4

[@joestrike8537]

Last time I saw the 9th Avenue station was in "Crocodile Dundee;" I wonder if the MTA is still letting films shoot there...Years ago there was an open stairway (with a chain across the top) leading down to that City Hall station lower level - I never had the guts to see what was down there. I always wondered what happened to the express tracks that continued down Broadway beyond the connection to the Manhattan Bridge-bound lower level of the Canal St. station...until I realized they were most likely the ones that continued to the City Hall station's lower level.

[@gigachad3674]

@@joestrike8537 Yes, the express tracks went toward the lower level. The express N/Q was originally supposed to go towards the west in manhattan, but there was a last minute change. Another last minute change for the city hall station caused the weird shape at the southern end of city hall. In the lower level, only 1 platform was completed. The other one didn't finish.

[@luiszeferino1999]

The B63 Bus You Are On, The Bus Model Is The 2017 New Flyer XN40 Xcelsior 751 So Yes

[@eliasthienpont6330]

The (D) train used to run on what today the (F) Lion. The old Atlantic tunnel was LIRR, not subway. Access was via a manhole on Atlantic.

[@b.griffin317]

Is the masstransitscope visible from the north or south side of the Q tunnel before going on the Manhattan Bridge?

[@Bobrogers99]

It's interesting that in some "abandoned" areas the lights are still on.

[@bryantrivera1852]

I'm a bus geek, and the bus that is used on the B61 is a New Flyer C40LF CNG and on the B63 is the New Flyer XN40 CNG

[@joestrike8537]

Those brass sculptures (including the business-suited gator crawling out of the "NYC Sewer" manhole) in downtown Brooklyn are by sculptor Tom Otterness; his work is all over town, including the 14th Street 8th Avenue station and the Hudson River park somewhere north of the World Trade Center.

[@wizloon9052]

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people trip over those sculptures in the park and crack their skulls open.

[@HarrisonPeloso]

ive been to some of the abandoned stations

[@sidrad]

The entrance to the Myrtle Avenue station is a marked door on the supermarket behind where you were standing.

[@benwancier7118]

Can you please visit any station in queens or the bronx for your next WTN

[@johnpetty9310]

I've been having a great great longing to GET IT ON in the SUBWAY 😂😂😂, ever since the scene from THE WARRIORS with MERCI begging 🙏 SWAN to GIVE IT TO HER ... RIGHT THERE in the TRACKS !!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 So Ladies ... if you date me and we're in a subway ........... 🤪 don't be surprised

[@topliner9534]

You should be able to see Worth Street and 18th street platforms on the 6 train and 91 St on the 1 train.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

according to Historic Aerials, northeast corner of Myrtle and Flatbush is where the entrance to Myrtle Ave. was

[@davidrivera9743]

1. Emergency exit. Bet. Hoyt and Nevins. 2. Yup. 3. Try taking an inbound B train after the artwork there will be evidence of a station. 4. You would need something from the early to mid 1970s for vintage Bowling Green. 5. Oops, dead ball. 6. F seize the front window at Jay St. You'll see the express tracks going to 7ave/church Ave. Exp. 7. Manhole cover in the middle of Atlantic Ave.

[@BluTransit]

That B63 was an XN40

[@trunkzz07playz33]

OMG HE DOSE SOMETHING COOL 0_0

[@paradoxum_scout]

4:00 its called the bowling green- south ferry shuttle which only used the r12 car

[@joshuaafrifa8134]

Omg you were right by my Grad school NYU Tandon in metro tech (formally Polytechnic University) and my Undergrad, CityTech lol

[@selectmonke3]

The B63 model you rode was the XN40

[@translinkboy1220]

Yup the bus you took was a new flyer xn40 lol

[@metropolitan6477]

The reason that there was a shuttle at Bowling Greens and abandon the problem is low ridership and also it was fast to walk from Bowling Green to South Ferry by the way to train is going to be a Lexington Avenue well one of the Lexington Avenue lines

[@cartelredstone2138]

The f express is still a thing on weekdays!

[@SahorajKhan78]

It is?

[@Phineascharles10]

Actually it’s suspended till further notice

[@thesafetycat8868]

you should check out 9th avenue lower level on the D train. It was in the Joker movie :)

[@michaelsanchez2417]

Yes it was, I recognized it immediately when I saw the movie. The refuse collection trains go through it on the regular.

[@transitguy0113]

i went to the same station adn the door was wide open so i get there sometimes its locked sometimes not locked but closed my friends whent there i never got fined for tresspassing nor caught

[@mariolj03]

Be careful once you get to the abandoned platforms and stations and good luck.

[@defiance772]

Bob Diamond "The Tunnel King" passed away a couple of days ago. 😢

[@phyuwkhine]

Do A G M LIRR A from far rockaway to hoyt schermerhorn G to court square M to herald square walk to penn station LIRR to brentwood

[@aviationwithlucas3093]

Omg! I remember watching you when I was 8. Forgot abt you until you made it to you recommendations. Lol.

[@Shinycelebi]

RIP Bob Diamond.

[@TSquared2001]

Interesting

[@peterprotentis6408]

On the #4,5&6 line Worth St & 18th Street on abandoned stations. Visible by train

[@smrtc151productions4]

7:07 lemon?!

[@Platinumhitz_]

Any interest in reviewing the South Brooklyn Railway? Specifically the Bay Ridge Branch, I believe its older than the MTA system and it's still being used... I'd like to see your thoughts on it

[@brygyM]

I saw 4 abanded stations and the old City Hall

[@zachdelaforce3480]

that looks like F and G trains

[@dollyfai7862]

How did you do that you could find the abandoned station

[@hazielmcdonald659]

I think it's that abandoned station I saw when I was on the f Brooklyn express

[@Jonathan-Adames]

Wow

[@Parzival957]

i made an suprtoe inspired please do a part 2 of it

[@FalconsEye58094]

Where'd you get those shoes?

[@CaptainsChannel58]

Great video and production, only criticism, turn down the music to about half the level it is now..

[@pubggamer2022]

I heard there was an abandoned lower level Roosevelt Avenue Jackson Height’s station

[@jellyplayztrainzzz5591]

And Lexington avenue 63rd street

[@wonkyjkdd]

fun fact that trader joe in atlantic ave ders a sewers which leads a hidden sercert tunnel & few blocks down ders a underground railroad slavery

[@fluzznation5262]

You forgot to check out the abandoned platform at atlantic avenue on the L train in brownsville

[@OrangeBlox123]

Do the old West 4th and New lots Avenue and do the old Canal street station on the J M Z

[@rkbnyc1379]

Here are some abandoned stations for part 3 9th Ave lower level,Broadway Upper Level (J)(M)(Z),Times Square 42nd Street, Worth Street and I can't think of anything.

[@johnperry4572]

9:10 all you have to do is look out the window leaving Bergen St....you'll see the tracks leaving Bergen St.LL

[@OrangeBlox123]

Do the Old West 4th st and the Old new lots Avenue and do the old canal street on the J M Z

[@JeromeAv1206]

Track 3 is retired on Times Square

[@matrixitymc]

you mean't the shuttle platform

[@JeromeAv1206]

Yes

[@oluhamilton2121]

I remember using the Bergen lower level in the 60's, bruh....