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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 😀

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.

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.

Oh how i miss the old setup at Canal!

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.

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!!!

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

This is history right here...great video!

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

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

rest in peace VE 2:59

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

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.

@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..

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

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

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.

Omg canal street when it had both island platforms opened

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

Beautiful footage man

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

Beautiful footage

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

This was when I first used the blue metrocard

If only Canal Street looked like this today

I remember the R40Ms on the J train

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.

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

Great footage!

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.

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

The OLD track layout @ 6:59!

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

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

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

Good piece of history.

But the 90s where the hood days

12:47 the 1/9th line?

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

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

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

2:55 R.I.P VE.

10:54 look at those shiny R62A trains!

1:51 rip VE

Amazin' video!

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

More footage plz =]

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.

Anymore nostaligc videos?

i remember canal Street like that

@2:55 Rip Ve

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

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

Dudes outfit at 3:56 omg

where did those ramps in Times Square station go?

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

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

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

so authentic..

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

SHOT OUT! HELL YEAH GIULIANI!!

9:26 Again With R62A 6 Trains

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?

What year did the R62s went full cabs

The Canal street need to be fixed

Wow pay phones

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Looks like it did last time I was there.

2:29 what was that rumbling noise?

What was the sign at 0:25 used for?

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

RIP VE ONE 👑

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

What ever happened to the track 3 and 4?

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

Man when the R42’s were out you had enough time to get on the train cuz in the 1980’s they closed the doors quickly. Wow! 7:49 I like the R42

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.

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

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

1994 get jumped that was the hood and club days

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

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

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

Ohh when canal Nassau used both platforms