Wow my Dad is in this documentary#.RIP

“The time for leisure ends, The time for work ends, And all things come to rest” Thank you for sharing this really delightful video from New York’s congenial past.

Love these historic videos. Sometimes I wish I could turn the clock back to 1966. New York City was actually livable back then.

6:45 - 7:00/ It's so amazing to actually see film footage of the Myrtle Avenue El just 3 years away from being decommissioned. Seeing the Broadway Station below is quite a kick for movie fans. That's the elevated Brooklyn station Sam leaves as he follows Willie to his home in the 1990 film GHOST.❤

Thank you so much for sharing this! This documentary was created a few years before I was born, but it contains a brief appearance of a family member of mine who died not too long ago. This is the first time I am able to see him on the job (17:51). He absolutely loved trains. He even created a room sized train set that had tunnels and bridges, trees and miniature people. It was amazing the amount of detail he put into it. I miss him, and it’s so great to get to see him in this video doing what he loved so much.

Love these documentaries fr the 60s. With the jazz music and narration style.

Very important historical footage. Fans of the Sea Beach lines will be pleased especially. BTW quite a good number of the R-32s featured in this film are still running. Thanks for sharing this!

I remember that time when I was a kid, the elegance, the classiness and the pride that people had in themselves and New York City which made it the place to be.

Great movie looking back into the '60s. Midtown at 7:59 and on... imagine if they had cell phones. Watching the Standards moving around brought back great memories of riding on them.

I like the old school trains,gotta love that sound the R1-9 make...

Love these transit history films!

Beautiful piece of history. Thank You for sharing!

Great old footage. Love them old subway cars compared to todays. Keep these footages coming!

Just watched one yesterday that was from 1949. I can't believe there's that much footage from before that time.

The opening I expected to hear the theme song The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974.

Excellent Documentary on the New York City Subway system.

The 6th Avenue El was the most decorative El ever built in AMERICA!

Fabulous archival footage of the system in the city where I once lived. Thanks for preparing and publishing this!

With the introduction of the R-211T's,the old BMT D types are reincarnated! My,how historical repeats! Those old carbuilders really put out excellent equipment,as they put out,in many cases,50+ years of service,and the museum cars,can still operate,even at 100 years old! Thank you for the reminders of subways,and elevateds past😊! And I was lucky,or blessed to ride on both the Myrtle Ave,and the remnant of the 3rd Ave,up in the Bronx! Thank you,for an railfans nirvana! Thank you 😇 😊!

What a grim way to end it foreshadowing the end of the Myrtle Ave. El' and the "Q"-Type cars. What a mistake it was to decrease the size of system instead of expanding it.

This video brings back good old memories.

Brings back memories of my youth, living in Rockaway before we moved to the Bronx. We'd take the A train into Manhattan when I needed to see my opthamologist at NY Eye and Ear Hospital, or just to go in for something special. Riding it while going over the train bridge on Jamaica Bay. Always a little scary. The motorman once let me into the cab, and put my hand on the controller while he operated it. Closest I ever got to driving one. I always loved being in the first car and looking out the window.

Holy snap new MTA history films thank you for posting this

The 6th Ave. El was the most beautiful el train line ever built.

Really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing!

Very cool!

8 million people even in 1966 🤯

That was the best transit video ever! Congratulations on doing a great job

30 mill on electric a year in 1966. Today its over 200 mill and I bet the system is way more efficient.

This is like going backwards in time. Amazing.

I remember the chocolate vending machines (and the gum machines). As a kid they were irresistable.

Working a summer job at my grandfather company on Wall st 1976 I can remember the wooden turnstile at the Wall st subway station…and I ducked under it more than a few times😁

OMG the dumping grounds for the old cars, thats crazy! I wish there was more vintage foiotage on which cars they were in 1966.

The beginning scene of this film are the exact memories I have that made me fall in love with the city subway trains. I used to lean over the platform to watch those two dingy lights emerging from a dark tunnel (this was the 70s) getting closer each moment and then blowing it's horn once it pulled into the station. It was such a delight for a 5 yr old from the Bronx. However, subway cars from earlier eras have always intrigued me more so this film was a real treat.

At last, trains fall asleep. It's the final station of their life.

Great documentary

Some sightings of "fallen flags," route designations that disappeared after the Chrystie St connection in 1967: T, the Broadway-West End Express (9:05); QT, the Broadway-Brighton local, shown at Parkside Ave. (12:26); and the QB, the former weekend Brighton Local via Bridge, which typically ran from Coney Island to Astoria. It was accurate of the film to portray this in the "leisure time" segment, and the two QB's (one in each direction) are shown between Avenue H and Newkirk Avenue (18:52). The historic Avenue H station house appears at 15:53. The LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch can be seen adjacent to the Sea Beach (18:45) and the catenary of the BRB/NY Connecting RR can be seen behind the BMT Standards nearing Metropolitan Avenue on the Myrtle (21:12).

I can't believe they did an infill for the third track, on the Myrtle Line THAT long ago. Damn, what was it for

Great Video.

We should have kept some of the ELs my parents and grandparents rode on em and remember them greatly

The el train we see is a rebuilt el train with open platforms removed and sliding doors installed in 1938, 939 for the NYC World's Fair of 1939, 1940 called Q type.

Even riding in rickidy unairconditioned wooden cars, back through the mid-'60's, the 8M sized city for the most part was a concentration of civility. (In other words - not any more. Nothing or no one could get me to descend back down into those tunnels.)

A really nice, informative documentary, nice relaxing music etc, trashed by modern day, meaningless commercials! Cheers.

24 minutes of “mere to sheer “ metaphor of New York & life “thru & thru” ...dank you as we said on the double LL or under the “el” (old New Yorkers will understand !!) 💙🧡

Awesome

NYC NEVER SLEEPS! Trains restaurants anything you want 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I never realized what that was until my mid 30s when I had a job in Washington DC. I moved into the suburbs of Baltimore. When things would just close down. Including Transit would just stop at a certain time. Stores would close at a certain time. Took a long time to get used to the crazy schedules and how slow things were. Everyone moved in slow motion according to what I was accustomed to. Born and raised in Brooklyn New York always had a job in Manhattan.

It is an excellent film, especially for those who do not know anything about the history of the New York City rapid transit system. It is more than a subway. It is a way to get around with just one fare. As a native New Yorker, the subway was my first favorite place, since I was a child.

-8th Avenue Independent subway- I wonder how people went home just seeing the lines name and not the letters. You know now a days we have (A)(C)(E). 😂😂

Sonny Sharrock.. Byard Lancaster... holy COW!!!

I practically lived on the BMT L between Bedford Ave where I lived as a kid and Manhattan.

$100 million a year…in 1966 is like A GA-JILLION DOLLARS TODAY!!!! 😮😮

I love the '60s avant garde jazz soundtrack.

Interesting about the boxed in locomotives.

Excellent documentary! I learned something today. Alcohol was used to keep ice from forming on the third rail and switches. LIRR uses gas heaters to keep the switches from icing today. Not sure about 1966. Interestingly enough, the same basic concept is used today in train operation. Sure, the technology improved, but the basic operation remains the same. Same can be said about automobiles. The technology is amazing, but the basic concept is the same (air/fuel/spark).

5:35 that’s Myrtle and wyocff. In the distance you could see Roosevelt projects in bed-stuy.

This music makes me wanna go watch Westside story

And now the train is 100 years old

The New York B subway Line should go to Whitehall street on the R subway Line

At the 7 minute mark, what are those big metal boxes...... ???

The end of the video is sad. I never rode those cars because I was born in 1970. My son and daughter never rode the R10s/16s they were born in the 1990s.

Oh shit is that the old time Parkside Av station?

8:04 bruh that walk 💀

From 18:28 to 18:36. the way GOD meant for a subway train to sound...

Decades later 2022

This was 100 years ago and 100 years ago

I love this, thank you. But jeez do I not like whoever chose the backing music. It's the shits.

Slowly getting outdated as CBTC is replacing the signaling and towermen. 1

The New York City F subway line should go to upstate New York

The F subway Line should use R142 subway cars