Canal Street BMT and Times Sq Stations in 1994
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- Unedited video of my roaming around the transit system after mid-night. See the 4 Track BMT Nassau Street Line station at Canal Street before it was part abandoned. The Broadway Line express tracks at Canal were out of service for years as trains were banned from the south tracks of the Manhattan Bridge during repairs. See part of the 9 segment ramp system that was deep beneath Times Square, as well the old shuttle platforms.
It's almost as if the person recording knew these videos would be valuable today!
Yes
@@southbeachtow7374 There goes a Redbird train on the (6) line. That must have been an R29 train.
Who was recording bruh good work
He recorded this himself.
well of course, these trains don’t last forever 😂
7:10 - "Press for Assistance"... yeah, right.
7:17 - Holy S**T, it works!!
that woman sounded annoyed
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
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
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!
1:10 Never seen Chinese lettering on MTA's famous subway station signages.
Just for Chinatown
I remember it as a kid! My mom worked near there. Good times.
Toure M ya
7:20 back then they didn't know either. lol
That's so old, that Assistance P/A and the button looks like the ones we use for the crossing the streets
trust me I learned so much of the things around us today date back to the early days of nyc
I didn't it would work such and old system.
Fernando Salas now we got upgraded ones that will probably last for another 20 years
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Now its so bad you have to have the national guard on the subway!
Oh how i miss the old setup at Canal!
man I wish I was alive at that time and there to railfan
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.
trainluvr true very true
tubblescousine2 p
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Me too
2:55 is the staircase today that has a door to the left, that door leads to the abandoned green column canal station
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?
@@HotLikeFire92 no
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
Jashawn Richardson can’t believe I posted this 3 years ago but you are right, I believe it’s on the Lexington line
@@HotLikeFire92 uhhh, are you stupid?
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.
This is history right here...great video!
you can go there right now and see this "history"..... it looks almost exactly same now as it did back then.
i agree, Flag!
@@peterjabattack1 nope.
@@robroy6374 I'm a new yorker pal. I see this station every weekend
@@peterjabattack1 nope. the former jamaica center/metropolitan ave bound at canal street have been closed since september 2004. the current in-use platform was rehabilitated in the late 90s, so don't lie.
It is still a great video the R40m,r42 on the J. Wonderful
Jose Nuñez yes papi
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.
Omg canal street when it had both island platforms opened
rest in peace VE 2:59
Cool, I was just starting hs not to far from canal in 94, love watching these.
You mean 1994
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.
6:52 This is currently the abandoned J/Z train platform of Canal St
It took me a while to realize that it’s the same abandoned station
If only Canal Street looked like this today
R42 Savage it kinda does lmao
R42 Savage nice username btw
Something makes us want to see the past and the people in the past want to see the future
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.
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.
the other track is used by the q and w
@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..
This was when I first used the blue metrocard
it’s cool seeing the half of the canal st platform on the j/z line before it was abandoned
The subway in the 90's at midnight? That is how you get jumped.
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." 😂😂
@@Hotters9060 idk
News Channel 5 Roblox I remember when the Redbirds that ran on the number 6 line had their doors painted an orange color on the inside.
@@Hotters9060 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
The most dangerous time to be on the nyc subway is between 2:00PM and 4:00PM
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
I remember the R40Ms on the J train
The OLD track layout @ 6:59!
One of the Best Aaliyah's Album Ever on the IRT's Canal Street Subway Station is One in a Million.
Do you know how to get to that exact location of the canal street station where it was shot?
@@HotLikeFire92 it's on 9:12-9:36, but it's nearly impossible because it's been 26 years
Beautiful footage man
R33/R36 Redbird (6) Train & R40M/R42 (J) Train & R40M (J) Train (1994).
Beautiful footage
I remember the R40M/42s on the J/M/Z lines back in the days!
Me too
Great footage!
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
Good piece of history.
1:51 rip VE
2:55 R.I.P VE.
This channel does not promote or condone graffiti vandalism! :P
I never promoted, nor did i condone it. Go live in Cuba with that shit.
You don't read emoji?
trainluvr huh? Only shouted a dead person out. If it annoys you remove it
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.
10:54 look at those shiny R62A trains!
i wish they kept the newer trains all silver too
I wish they kept the railfan window but the MTA rehauled them.
@@blockvfive1196 I miss the old Redbirds. That Redbird on the (6) was probably an R29 train.
R.i.p R40ms No More Longer Seen In Mta :'(
But will be seen in the Transit museum
@@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.
Wish the MTA kept the Chinese lettering on the sign for Canal. Pretty cool to see.
Isn’t it still up?
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 accidentally pressed on a lil pump song, I came here to clean my soul.
Very cool! Do you have any more videos from Times Square or Union Square from this decade?
But the 90s where the hood days
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
@2:55 Rip Ve
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.
Dudes outfit at 3:56 omg
More footage plz =]
5:35 so that's how it operated before its closure in 2004.
Is there any videos before the bridge closure?
Any videos during the manhattan bridge closure? 6 ave line?
i remember canal Street like that
7:05 back when the NYCTA Had no help points tecnology until the near future which is 2013
12:47 the 1/9th line?
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.
@@noobtheoriginal fax
@@noobtheoriginal I rode the (9) train back in the 1990's. I miss those days.
This was when NYC was Gritty and Scary! most of Harlem, And crown heights Brooklyn were the danger zones
ikr
Also I think in 94 East new York Brooklyn was crazy as well
ASVP AngryFlareon think? East New York was the worst area in NYC in the early 90s
South Bronx is dangerous I live near pelham bay park
dubreil07 wow that's where im from Pink Houses in East New York but I was born 92
Anymore nostaligc videos?
Amazin' video!
It is from 1994
Alvis Wu yup but still a grate video like all of his videos!
Ah yes, you are an OG if you remember the 600 volts “buzzzzzzzzzz” in the Nassau St station of Canal St
so authentic..
I feel like very little has changed at Canal Street at least.
9:26 Again With R62A 6 Trains
LeafyisGone I’m saying like Back to it’s original day
How do you get to that exact Canal station platform at the 9:15 mark?
that's on the northbound platform on the 6 line towards the front though it looks nothing like that now
Bruh 3:34 dude look similar to elisa Izquierdo's father Gustavo that's crazy lmao
where did those ramps in Times Square station go?
SHOT OUT! HELL YEAH GIULIANI!!
Wow pay phones
Wow 2:35 a ve.... straight 90s
What year did the R62s went full cabs
The Canal street need to be fixed
3:36 that almost looks like Gustavo Izqueirdo but it ain't tho also 20 days before his death
I’m looking closely to see if I’m in this video!
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?
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
9:15 Aaliyah's One In A Million album cover.
Looks like it did last time I was there.
RIP VE ONE 👑
I miss when canal st had the Chinese letters.wonder why they took that down??
The 90s-05 period was much better! Hhmmff!
What was the sign at 0:25 used for?
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
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.
2:29 what was that rumbling noise?
Probably the porter was rolling a dumpster on the opposite platform.
15:00-15:11 put a smile on my face
1994 get jumped that was the hood and club days
Drop some of dat acid bass
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
Yea cuz you see the wavy design under the doors windows
And more. But u mean 6:15
That’s the r40m
That's a r40m
@@sammy6289.they’re literally R42s. They have different sidings.
2:35 What trunk line are these platforms a part of? Are these abandoned today? What lines serve them now?
Really? The train says what line it is.
@@trainluvr ok ty lol
Ohh when canal Nassau used both platforms
Was that dude at 15:00 really coming back up to attack you for filming him and those 2 ladies??
What ever happened to the track 3 and 4?
@Jose Nuñez It got abandoned.
It's abandoned now
It's where the Ghost trails roll by late night..lol
15:44 is the dude in the black suit a detective
ew the font used for that exit sign at the top left in 15:59
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.
RIP R40m/42 R26,R28,R33WF