The Abandoned 42ND ST Lower Level

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Жыл бұрын

The Abandoned 42ND ST Lower Level
Grounds of the lower level subway station beneath 42nd Street.
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@lonelyqueen86 Жыл бұрын

I have always found abandoned places fascinating and have recently become absolutley obsessed with abandoned subway stations. Places where daily crowds once gathered day in and day out for years and years now silently rotting in the dark. Or in some cases dim spooky lighting. I have never been to NYC though oddly enough. Not in this lifetime anyway!

@Nick_Garcia2348 Жыл бұрын

I live in nyc

@zinhoooo 11 ай бұрын

also, it always fascinates me. When I'm in New York maybe I'll see better.

@mitch4527 10 ай бұрын

This particular station was never that crowded. It was built as part of the original IND 8th Avenue line that opened in 1932 but it didn’t have a clear purpose. It wasn’t even finished or tiled until the late 1950’s. It had revenue service from 1959 to 1981, as an additional platform to catch a local downtown 8th Avenue train or to take the Aqueduct Racetrack special train that started here. After the trains stopped running here in 1981, the station was used as an underpass between the upper local and express downtown platforms for while. When the mezzanine was rebuilt to connect the upper platforms, the station was fully abandoned.

@lonelyqueen86 2 ай бұрын

@@mitch4527fascinating, thanks!

@scubadiva666 Жыл бұрын

I keep thinking, "Hey Warriors, come out to play-ay!" when a train goes by.

@1216ceasar 8 ай бұрын

This lower level was open between 1959 and 1981. This was the old 8th avenue local track. The A, C AND E serviced this station.

@seymorebutts2687 Жыл бұрын

If you watch the movie “Ghost” they filmed some of the scenes with the trains in that station 😊

@scubadiva666 Жыл бұрын

For some reason, that graffiti, "Women's Shanty" cracked me up!

@redpillrules3136 5 ай бұрын

BTW, where you see the large footprint on the door, that is the standard reaction for when you leave your base quarters without the right key...😅😂🤣

@TheMiguelitoGod1000_ Жыл бұрын

When I was in the train, I think I saw 2 people with flashlights on them walking on the opposite direction.

@davejefferynf Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done. Thank you for sharing.

@mirabelcreator2552 Жыл бұрын

Such a creepy place, beautiful.

@AndreBeverly Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of corridors in Resident Evil

@donaldyeoman8914 2 ай бұрын

How creepy these subway stations must have been during the 1970s/1980s when violent crime on the subway was at its very worst!.

@CookyMonzta Жыл бұрын

Oh, boy...this would be one hell of a place for another *_ALIENS_* movie!

@christinalizano8549 Жыл бұрын

Wow super nice. i think you truly explored it all

@VideoNOLA 2 ай бұрын

I guess big cities like NY have no means of stopping people from trespassing like this.

@DonaldHendleyBklynvexRecords Жыл бұрын

what ever cam yall use is perfect for cinima! the color grading is certainly horror film quality color and quality wise ,perfect place too!

@jayo1212 6 ай бұрын

The NY Transit Museum should restore this platform as an annex...

@TwanK1 Жыл бұрын

That's The Track Thats Now Closed Off Just Before 34th street because Of The 7line Extension..Used To Be A Switch Point On The Southbound Express Track At One Time

@2008alde Жыл бұрын

The 7 used terminate at Times Square (42 and 7th). How does 34 street play into this abandoned station?

@TwanK1 Жыл бұрын

@Al Desimone Well When The 7 Line Was Extended To 34th Street and 11th Av..Before The Train Left 42nd Street Southbound The Tunnel Has To Literally Make A Downhill Of Some Sorts Because Of The Abandoned 42nd Street lower level station..The Track Was Also In the way of the tunnel..Which Rendered It Now Useless..Crazy Enough The Track Is Still There But Like I Said It's Now Blocked Off From The Southbound A Express Track Just Before 34th Street...& They Did This A Few Years Before The 7 Was Extended To 34th Street

@Robinx1985 9 ай бұрын

@@TwanK1Additionally on the southbound platform for the ACE I believe there's a service hatch that platform. Which isn't too bad but awesome to point out to people who wanna know some history.

@Noobixm-GGD 3 ай бұрын

Ain’t this where that ghost movie was filmed

@christophertrujillo719 Ай бұрын

Yes it is

@luisalbertoolverarivera8354 Жыл бұрын

this was the station where was filmed "ghost"

@Nightsweeper 8 ай бұрын

Slap some walls up, bring in furniture, perfect spot to call home rent free…

@angelrivera318 9 ай бұрын

The Lower 42rd Station Which They Film Ghost There!

@hubertvancalenbergh9022 Жыл бұрын

Watch out for Long John!

@Kanjiiklub Жыл бұрын

i wanna go to these places so bad bruh idk how

@danielmcguire8000 Жыл бұрын

42nd it’s pretty easy there’s a door on the downtown side of the ac line and you just pick the lock and ur in

@angiee202 Жыл бұрын

@@danielmcguire8000 idk how to pick locks

@dontspeaktoelectrohead1491 Жыл бұрын

@@angiee202 bring a bolt cutter

@jaystew730 Жыл бұрын

You just did

@urbexcaox Жыл бұрын

🔥🔥

@TonyP9279 7 ай бұрын

The trains make a creepy background score! So, there's a path from one side of the 7 track to the other? Is that what the sheet metal platform @ 7:40 covers?

@redpillrules3136 5 ай бұрын

Looks clean ! 😂😅🤣

@SpartanFret 10 ай бұрын

I thought the lower-level was deeper but it sounds like it's directly below the upper level

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Ай бұрын

It is.

@Tconlon251_2 13 күн бұрын

That’s probably the 7 Train going to/from Hudson Yards. The track runs right through the old platform The platform was flawed in that there was only one way for trains to actually access it. One theory of why this platform was built at all is that the city (IND) wanted to prevent the IRT from extending the Flushing line past Times Square. Of course, after the three subway companies were merged, that was no longer a problem

@jesussavesnyc Жыл бұрын

i been down there few times already

@TuMalditaMadre 2 ай бұрын

I saw your tag, instantly recognizable

@urbexsurfer8196 Жыл бұрын

💯💯

@jaimepuebla5206 Жыл бұрын

Bro about to send the route 🤭

@danielmcguire8000 Жыл бұрын

u didn’t have to go on the tracks there’s a door on the platform that leads into the abandond station

@LIRRFAN426 Жыл бұрын

I’m assuming they keep the door locked.

@llllIlllIIIll Жыл бұрын

@@LIRRFAN426 I just checked today. It was open. Too cold to do anything besides walk around down there.

@SoWickedCrow Жыл бұрын

They removed the staircase,you look down it before they put trap door up.

@SoWickedCrow Жыл бұрын

We removed the switch and some tracks leading downstairs years ago

@chronicillz1879 Жыл бұрын

@@SoWickedCrow whos "we"?

@Sxmesia 8 ай бұрын

8:24 it sounded like someone moaned in the room in front of him

@UzziHD 5 ай бұрын

I think the track workers use these areas to take prostitutes and homeless women to play.

@levigaming-1 5 ай бұрын

In PTA it’s Junko heights

@steveember8972 Жыл бұрын

Was this the 8th Ave Line lower level that was closed as a result of extension of the 7 to Hudson Yards?

@mmhoss Жыл бұрын

It was in disuse before that extension, but the 7 extension cuts right through this. This was the platform for the racetrack train to aqueduct, and apparently some E express evening trains in the 70's. Racetrack service ended in 81. Seems MTA opted to just merge every E train at 50th street and shut this off. Seems like good storage space for all those CBTC transponders now

@dock_yard1149 Ай бұрын

You can make out a cinderblock wall-off across the platform part way down. Look for the scrawl “end of work zone” on the tiled wall next to the cinderblock. Those walls sandwich the 7’s tunnel across this platform.

@steveember8972 Ай бұрын

@@dock_yard1149 Many thanks!

@hypnotoad1674 Жыл бұрын

When did they close that? Years ago I used that station quite often

@E-man5375 Жыл бұрын

1981

@ceasecommed Жыл бұрын

Is that being rehabbed with all the drywall partitions and materials for future use

@dock_yard1149 Ай бұрын

Storage only. No plans to rehab, no reason to. Platform and track are bisected by the relatively new 7 line extension.

@AlexR_44 Жыл бұрын

cool

@wac3000 Жыл бұрын

Which trains used to serve this platform? I didn't see any train labels

@SoWickedCrow Жыл бұрын

The A,C E trains,and trains to Aqueduct racetrack.

@ilyleoooo Жыл бұрын

@@SoWickedCrow only rush hours E trains the A was only for special events aka aquaduct race thingy

@dock_yard1149 Ай бұрын

And the long gone Train To The Plane [JFK express, higher fare, didn’t enter airport - no subway does]

@williamerazo3921 Жыл бұрын

So the 7train goes right through it

@SoWickedCrow Жыл бұрын

This is true

@urbexcaox Жыл бұрын

😳😳😳

@tales0fnyc Жыл бұрын

u went by tunnel

@chronicillz1879 Жыл бұрын

how do u get down there?

@munipals-r47 11 ай бұрын

walked from 34 st-penn station or 50 st

@chronicillz1879 11 ай бұрын

@@munipals-r47 nice. thanks for replying, im not gonna do it, but its nice to know

@mryeti1887 7 ай бұрын

I know exactly what that smells like.

@brosauraus4likestrains 4 ай бұрын

is bro really on the 3rd rail

@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome Ай бұрын

Current is probably switched off and anyway the third rail has a cover over it.

@jamessuarez6301 Жыл бұрын

Cool find, but seriously be careful and don’t walk on the 3rd rail

@ericjello6204 Жыл бұрын

The 3rd rail is not in use, plus it's been abandon for so long I highly doubt there's electricy running through

@chronicillz1879 Жыл бұрын

@@ericjello6204 the third rail is still used... people die all the time

@ericjello6204 Жыл бұрын

@@chronicillz1879 I'm not mentioning the fact of the 3rd rail in general ofc it's still in use I'm mentioning the this specification station 3rd rail

@jeanetdun Жыл бұрын

@@chronicillz1879 That third rail is disconnected. The 7 line extension to Hudson cuts right through the lower level platform and roadbed 👌🏾

@chronicillz1879 Жыл бұрын

@@jeanetdun oh my bad, you meant that PARTICULAR third rail, got you

@cliffycashmore Жыл бұрын

Did you fax Jesus Dave’s ?

@elijah7154 8 ай бұрын

He or they are nypd it's mad obvious