Canal Street BMT and Times Sq Stations in 1994

[@tmalone2530]

It's almost as if the person recording knew these videos would be valuable today!

[@southbeachtow7374]

Yes

[@SuperheroJunior]

@@southbeachtow7374 There goes a Redbird train on the (6) line. That must have been an R29 train.

[@MXLSTARS]

Who was recording bruh good work

[@Astrochorius]

He recorded this himself.

[@rvouzs2x]

well of course, these trains don’t last forever 😂

[@W1ld-Ghost99]

I went to the abandoned side of canal last week and seeing the difference compared to how it used to be is crazy

[@StephinOut]

7:10 - "Press for Assistance"... yeah, right. 7:17 - Holy S**T, it works!!

[@lilbluefoxie]

that woman sounded annoyed

[@xpdev0]

That was so useful back then before the Internet became mainstream + mobile phones getting more powerful and popular The assistance buttons are now out of commission and no longer in use

[@midnightdeluxegaming6582]

@@lilbluefoxiei think the intercom quality was just bad & thats just how NYers talk. She sounded nice, she even said, “you’re welcome.”

[@KevinCNYC1991]

Man, these videos from the past are spectacular. A lot has changed in the last 20 years. Can't wait to see what else you're going to upload.

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

1:10 Never seen Chinese lettering on MTA's famous subway station signages.

[@PhayzinOut]

Just for Chinatown

[@tmalone2530]

I remember it as a kid! My mom worked near there. Good times.

[@tyrek78]

Toure M ya

[@SeeingEyeMultimedia]

You can hear the subway sounds in many scenes of the old Law and Order. Great how they made no effort to edit them out. Like the show, it's a part of the Big Apple!

[@ericschwartz2062]

This section of Canal Street J/Z lines at 5:02 was closed and abandoned in September 2004. Cool you videoed it while it was still open.

[@MikeSkateTV]

That's so old, that Assistance P/A and the button looks like the ones we use for the crossing the streets

[@diazjd93]

trust me I learned so much of the things around us today date back to the early days of nyc

[@fernandosalas8589]

I didn't it would work such and old system.

[@diazjd93]

Fernando Salas now we got upgraded ones that will probably last for another 20 years

[@Kempmaurice]

This reminded me how loud the trains were as they were screeching to a stop back then. It also reminded me how creepy those billboards for CATS seemed to me.

[@redcat608]

This is history right here...great video!

[@peterjabattack1]

you can go there right now and see this "history"..... it looks almost exactly same now as it did back then.

[@robroy6374]

i agree, Flag!

[@robroy6374]

@@peterjabattack1 nope.

[@peterjabattack1]

@@robroy6374 I'm a new yorker pal. I see this station every weekend

[@robroy6374]

@@peterjabattack1 nope. the former jamaica center/metropolitan ave bound platform at canal street have been closed since september 2004. the current in-use platform was rehabilitated in the late 90s, so don't lie.

[@frankjames6232]

It's absolutely amazing how the subway and the public was back in 94 before smartphones I love that shot of the old telephone booth 😀

[@diazjd93]

2:55 is the staircase today that has a door to the left, that door leads to the abandoned green column canal station

[@HotLikeFire92]

diazjd93 - How do you get to that exact location? I've been wanting to find that green column canal station at the 9:15 mark. It's where the One In A Million album cover was shot. Is that the abandoned one you are talking about? I've seen a lot of abandoned station that people can still get to. Is that station in brooklyn?

[@blackpit1769]

@@HotLikeFire92 no

[@JashawnRichardson]

HotLikeFire92 Aaliyah shot that on the uptown 6 platform; it doesn’t look like that anymore but there’s the location if you ever wanted to know

[@diazjd93]

Jashawn Richardson can’t believe I posted this 3 years ago but you are right, I believe it’s on the Lexington line

[@bullymaguire6168]

@@HotLikeFire92 uhhh, are you stupid?

[@trinimark123abc]

7:20 back then they didn't know either. lol

[@tmalone2530]

Oh how i miss the old setup at Canal!

[@tubblescousine257]

man I wish I was alive at that time and there to railfan

[@trainluvr]

If you had a time machine, you would go back to 1936. The IND was built but most of the els still stood, as well as the NYW and B. And the damn trolleys, steam trains and ferries.

[@tubblescousine257]

trainluvr true very true

[@fenelonzunzirosemond6969]

tubblescousine2 p

[@fenelonzunzirosemond6969]

‘J

[@torminotton3181]

Me too

[@MrSlamCAC]

I remember those old bumpers and walkway at Canal St. BMT Station on the J&Z before the track realignment and closure of half of the station.

[@darrylreedy5079]

Watching this video made me have a dream that I went back in time. The funny thing is I was an infant when this video was made.

[@czechdeph]

Thank you for that. You nailed it with this video. For a very long time now, I’m looking for a video that captures the now abandoned platform of the Canal plus the passage connecting both semi-island platforms and also the 42 before the 90s renovation and ramps elimination. Would be great if you find more of the 42 labyrinth before the rehabilitation work took place.

[@kevinwong6588]

Apparently the south side bridge tracks were "roadworthy" for use as late as 1993-94, given a movie ("Cowboy Way") shot an actual moving train of R40s on the south track.

[@JoseNunez-zh5ec]

It is still a great video the R40m,r42 on the J. Wonderful

[@ADRHYN]

Jose Nuñez yes papi

[@GFS695]

Cool, I was just starting hs not to far from canal in 94, love watching these.

[@annanowak3016]

You mean 1994

[@markemanuele1929]

WOW This is the New York that I remember... I would like to see some stuff from the '70s tho. NOW THAT was the REAL GRITTY NYC!!!

[@PRHILL9696]

Now its so bad you have to have the national guard on the subway!

[@TatersEatsCrayons]

it’s cool seeing the half of the canal st platform on the j/z line before it was abandoned

[@oochiewally2783]

@3:01 that graffiti was VADE back in the days canal street was my stomping ground loved the ARMY Navy store right upstairs n the old stereo system..

[@idespisenewyork]

6:52 This is currently the abandoned J/Z train platform of Canal St

[@RalphExMichanima]

It took me a while to realize that it’s the same abandoned station

[@tmalone2530]

The OLD track layout @ 6:59!

[@joyceyolandastorch8964]

It looks so creepy and scary down there. I dont know how i ever took the subway back in the 1960s. I only took the E train at 7th Ave & i think it was 53rd Street, going back to Queens, when school day ended. The station was deserted. Someone was going to attack me, and i was so lucky the train came and i jumped on. My nerves were shattered for a long time after that. I think i was only 15.

[@thecrooklynite2129]

rest in peace VE 2:59

[@REXXSEVEN_II]

0:47 Wow. Those are the abandoned tracks that I seen when I was a teenager, in either 1993 or 1994. I had never seen anything like that. It was just unused tracks with nothing but garbage on them. Then there were some metal beds with wheels that looked like they were meant to push items along the tracks.

[@kenw7287]

I believe those tracks were out of service due to the infamous 90s reconstruction of the Manhattan Bridge which took about 10 years to finish. The tracks are now being used by the Q and N trains to get to Brooklyn.

[@Transitboyy6585]

the other track is used by the q and w

[@gohtigeriens7967]

Omg canal street when it had both island platforms opened

[@nascarsillyseason9606]

Something makes us want to see the past and the people in the past want to see the future

[@Carl-Romero]

Is it crazy that I was at Canal Street waiting for the (6) train to come one time like a few months ago and then an R62A pulls in on my side and the other side it's an R142A pulling in at the same time it was really similiar to 9:21 - 9:40 only it was R142A instead of a redbird but yeah that made me think about that

[@R42ToMoffat]

If only Canal Street looked like this today

[@theol.j.5963]

R42 Savage it kinda does lmao

[@theol.j.5963]

R42 Savage nice username btw

[@dream.machine]

Beautiful footage

[@mohammeddavis]

Beautiful footage man

[@algorithm1193]

The subway in the 90's at midnight? That is how you get jumped.

[@mugen3443]

Lol, I was watching this with my cousin and he saw the time and said "Damn, its fucking midnight. My son finna get butt fucked and then robbed." 😂😂

[@CCT3]

@Hotters 7060 idk

[@CCT3]

@Hotters 7060 I was born in 2009 and I have never been to New York City to ride the subway so I haven't experienced the New York City subway and the Redbirds anyways for red birds are out of service

[@nyctmtakid8358]

The most dangerous time to be on the nyc subway is between 2:00PM and 4:00PM

[@annanowak3016]

スラット

[@kellyhyland8504]

I accidentally pressed on a lil pump song, I came here to clean my soul.

[@reggierodriguez6546]

This was when I first used the blue metrocard

[@WaltGekko]

The Canal Street platform on the Nassau Street line when you used to have the crossover at the south end of the station before the northbound platform was closed and the southbound platform became two-way.

[@ryanflores2489]

Wish the MTA kept the Chinese lettering on the sign for Canal. Pretty cool to see.

[@barrybshrekson864]

Isn’t it still up?

[@StivenBonillaNY]

One of the Best Aaliyah's Album Ever on the IRT's Canal Street Subway Station is One in a Million.

[@HotLikeFire92]

Do you know how to get to that exact location of the canal street station where it was shot?

[@NguyeninhHoangMinhA]

@@HotLikeFire92 it's on 9:12-9:36, but it's nearly impossible because it's been 26 years

[@fredola2600]

12:47 the 1/9th line?

[@noobtheoriginal]

Fred Luddy back in the day, the 1 had a skip stop service in the bronx. It was the 9 train and it ran the entire 1 train route with express service in the bronx. The skip stop service was discontinued in 2005, due to low ridership.

[@EthanF175]

@@noobtheoriginal fax

[@SuperheroJunior]

@@noobtheoriginal I rode the (9) train back in the 1990's. I miss those days.

[@Shadowdreamcast]

Great footage!

[@EthanF175]

17:24 ahhh the 9 train, the skip stop service for the 1, dont you remember the 9, i do, i rode it like twice though

[@chriscampbell5538]

I remember the R40M/42s on the J/M/Z lines back in the days!

[@Wbishop1995]

Me too

[@lewisdsd]

10:54 look at those shiny R62A trains!

[@blockvfive1196]

i wish they kept the newer trains all silver too

[@42luke93]

I wish they kept the railfan window but the MTA rehauled them.

[@SuperheroJunior]

@@blockvfive1196 I miss the old Redbirds. That Redbird on the (6) was probably an R29 train.

[@BLETransitYT]

Amazin' video!

[@AlvisWuMidNights]

It is from 1994

[@tubblescousine257]

Alvis Wu yup but still a grate video like all of his videos!

[@chriscampbell5538]

I remember the R40Ms on the J train

[@ericcourt1582]

R33/R36 Redbird (6) Train & R40M/R42 (J) Train & R40M (J) Train (1994).

[@JRnyc]

2:55 R.I.P VE.

[@trainluvr]

This channel does not promote or condone graffiti vandalism! :P

[@JRnyc]

I never promoted, nor did i condone it. Go live in Cuba with that shit.

[@trainluvr]

You don't read emoji?

[@JRnyc]

trainluvr huh? Only shouted a dead person out. If it annoys you remove it

[@yab_flow323]

Good piece of history.

[@odemata87]

RIP Veone

[@williamerazo3921]

What year did the R62s went full cabs

[@DLHDP]

I feel like very little has changed at Canal Street at least.

[@jred9864]

5:35 so that's how it operated before its closure in 2004.

[@EdwardM-t8p]

I took the IRT Seventh Avenue line from Penn Station to a friend's apartment at Columbia University late at night in 1990. I was kind of scared waiting on the subway platform at Penn but noone ever chanced by, let alone anyone who was a would be criminal. Did the same in 1997 taking the IND 8th Avenue and Greenpoint lines to a host's house on Greenpoint Ave. in Queens. I was just as safe.

[@Kevothe2nd]

@2:55 Rip Ve

[@HotLikeFire92]

How do you get to that exact Canal station platform at the 9:15 mark?

[@eroc51440]

that's on the northbound platform on the 6 line towards the front though it looks nothing like that now

[@oochiewally2783]

this was my era,,,canal street was the spot to get fire works from the chinos,,and systems if you didnt steal em from cars back then lol

[@joshmasterproductions9066]

7:05 back when the NYCTA Had no help points tecnology until the near future which is 2013

[@annettew2997]

But the 90s where the hood days

[@ADRHYN]

Dudes outfit at 3:56 omg

[@theroyaltriadvevo]

3:36 that almost looks like Gustavo Izqueirdo but it ain't tho also 20 days before his death

[@lilbluefoxie]

where did those ramps in Times Square station go?

[@dang5297]

More footage plz =]

[@fernandosalas8589]

Beginning of video very creepy I have been there and very late at night around 2008, when it's quiet in the subway it's pretty intense but I felt save. If it was back in the 70s and 80s I would be terrified, the news would tell you don't be on trains after 9pm that is when most crimes were committed. Besides i was still a kid and my parents were home from work by 6pm. J train comes in 25 mins? That's why there was a lot of crimes committed long waiting time and the 7 was bad too especially waiting outside not in underground it gets very cold when your not moving.

[@A_fox0]

R.i.p R40ms No More Longer Seen In Mta :'(

[@annanowak3016]

But will be seen in the Transit museum

[@SuperheroJunior]

@@annanowak3016 The Redbirds were my favorite trains. I miss them on the (2) and (5) lines. I also rode them on the (4) and (6) lines too.

[@richiebaioi66]

7:32 you’re welcome 😊

[@bullymaguire6168]

Ah yes, you are an OG if you remember the 600 volts “buzzzzzzzzzz” in the Nassau St station of Canal St

[@Uphi9691]

Wow 2:35 a ve.... straight 90s

[@dang5297]

Is there any videos before the bridge closure? Any videos during the manhattan bridge closure? 6 ave line?

[@ultraswank]

Very cool! Do you have any more videos from Times Square or Union Square from this decade?

[@dang5297]

Anymore nostaligc videos?

[@chinosparky2061]

i remember canal Street like that

[@user-fj6so62ypa]

9:26 Again With R62A 6 Trains

[@user-fj6so62ypa]

LeafyisGone I’m saying like Back to it’s original day

[@rbxgamer1545]

2:29 what was that rumbling noise?

[@trainluvr]

Probably the porter was rolling a dumpster on the opposite platform.

[@jadeehernandez6946]

Bruh 3:34 dude look similar to elisa Izquierdo's father Gustavo that's crazy lmao

[@BrianGomez8888]

15:44 is the dude in the black suit a detective

[@angryredsquirrelyoufreakin1496]

This was when NYC was Gritty and Scary! most of Harlem, And crown heights Brooklyn were the danger zones

[@abudiyan]

ikr

[@angryredsquirrelyoufreakin1496]

Also I think in 94 East new York Brooklyn was crazy as well

[@dubreil07]

ASVP AngryFlareon think? East New York was the worst area in NYC in the early 90s

[@anthonyyoung3194]

South Bronx is dangerous I live near pelham bay park

[@quanbrooklynkid7776]

dubreil07 wow that's where im from Pink Houses in East New York but I was born 92

[@GeneralHawk505]

I just realized them closing the passages from the Lexington Avenue line was a retarded move. Walking along the N/Q platform during rush hour is asking for a death wish.

[@JWFdocumentaries]

15:00-15:11 put a smile on my face

[@nastynate2379]

RIP VE ONE 👑

[@JoseNunez-zh5ec]

What ever happened to the track 3 and 4?

[@septafan]

@Jose Nuñez It got abandoned.

[@anthonyyoung3194]

It's abandoned now

[@panama8009]

It's where the Ghost trails roll by late night..lol

[@ermdaniel]

ew the font used for that exit sign at the top left in 15:59

[@trainluvr]

I agree. There was some kind of minor spruce up of the station complex done around 1990 with non-standard signs. More helpful to the public than whatever as there before.

[@newzcutter]

15:48 west side story on the sax

[@mattguy2998]

I miss when canal st had the Chinese letters.wonder why they took that down??

[@joelweisstuch4572]

Yo i thought Canal street today is a shithole. Look at it back then tho dayum. Much improvement now actually. Would love to travel back there for a day or two 90s were gangsta

[@mariekatherine5238]

I’m looking closely to see if I’m in this video!

[@MIkeDye200202holla]

What was the sign at 0:25 used for?

[@barrybshrekson864]

Idk but it looks kinda similar to the sign at gates av where it tells if a Brooklyn bound or queens bound train is approaching

[@ntrainmta9626]

The Canal street need to be fixed

[@HotLikeFire92]

9:15 Aaliyah's One In A Million album cover.

[@mohammeddavis]

SHOT OUT! HELL YEAH GIULIANI!!

[@mariofilippi3539]

I remember when Time Square Station (ca. 1970) had vendors where you could get some snacks. Are there any more vendors in subway stations these days?

[@Abraham_Yusif]

Wow pay phones

[@Thatgamingdiary]

2:35 What trunk line are these platforms a part of? Are these abandoned today? What lines serve them now?

[@trainluvr]

Really? The train says what line it is.

[@Thatgamingdiary]

@@trainluvr ok ty lol

[@nema1218]

At 0:22 when they are entering, the young man speaking, mentions Donald Trump's name. Just turn up the volume.

[@trainluvr]

Holy shit, my video is cursed.

[@nema1218]

LOL! Don't mean to ruin it for you, please don't delete your video.

[@theroyaltriadvevo]

Sounded like he, said donald trump bitch ass😂😂😂

[@diazjd93]

Nice

[@durece100]

Don't be ridiculous. You made that stuff up.

[@meherrafi6110]

At 1:09 why isn’t there any trains there and btw I was born 2002 so yea

[@josh_jay_way]

During this time (N) & (R) both ran Broadway Local via Montague Tunnel. Express (Q) & (W) came later via the bridge using the "Not in Service tracks" seen in this video. Unfortunately "9/11" caused CHAOS on the Broadway Line in lower Manhattan South of Canal Street so it took years & various route changes to get the current line-up as Express (N) & (Q) & Local (R) & (W).

[@flushingrailfanner6391]

The 90s-05 period was much better! Hhmmff!

[@sahbreezyy]

Saulracing: That couple is famous now

[@jjrrhh1983]

Was that dude at 15:00 really coming back up to attack you for filming him and those 2 ladies??