East 143 St - St. Mary's St - Least Used Stations | 6 Train - NYC Subway
Vložit
- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- For the 6th Station in my Least Used Stations series, I'm checking out the East 143 St - St. Mary's St Station on the 6 Line.
My Gaming Channel: / mysticzeenoz
I make cool Transportation Videos, mostly revolving around Railfanning/Trainspotting, Station Tours, and Informational-Type videos. This is an overall chill channel, so if you like Transportation, Consider Subscribing!
Join My Discord Server: / discord
#LeastUsedStations #NYCSubway #6Train
For the 6th Station in the Least Used Stations series, we have E 143 St - St. Mary's St, on the (6) Line. If you enjoy this video, and you want to see more of this series, like the video, and if you haven't already, subscribe to the channel.
You should also do a "Most Used Station" series as well!
You should include Broad Channel on the A line in this Least Used Stations series.
@@TransitShadow That's actually the next video.
Should be abandoned
Always ignore any MTA employee interfering when you are legally photographing/filming a station. If they get aggressive, note the car # he is in and call the cops on them. I did this in 2015 and a conductor was schooled on the law.
I sometimes have people ask me for directions while railfanning it’s annoying 🤦♂️.
As a former station agent, when I worked extra this was a scary spot to work at midnight… just you and the rat’s. You didn’t leave the booth without a cop for bathroom relief. I always bought lunch or snacks the area is desolate, at least it was in the nineties.
Still is! It’s so desolate let’s just say I’ve gotten off the train on a long trip to the end of this station, relieved myself. Then wait for the next train up to Westchester Square 😅
I remember back when i was younger using this stop and 149 and riding/watching the r142a's. I dont know why but the propulsion just sounded quite soothing and comforting to my ears. Anyway you're doing a great job with the series and cant wait for the nicest stop next
Oh I LOVED the R142A's on the (6). I used to love seeing them. Those are the trains I grew up with. I understand why they had to be transferred to the (7) for the R62A's, but the Traction Motors on the R142A's are just AMAZING.
Also, thanks. I'm tryna create a cool and interesting series here, and build a big NYC Subway/Transportation in General type of channel!
@@MysticTransit No I don’t think that’s right, since the R142 version of the 7 trains are R188. Though, the models look the same. Sorry if you didn’t want to be corrected tho. ;-;
It is right. The (6) originally ran R142A’s. They were transferred to the (7) for its R62A’s because of the CBTC installation along the line. They were renamed the R188’s, due to them getting extensive upgrades. (CBTC Installation, a change to the Traction/Brake controller, the addition of a ‘C’ car, and more)
The R142’s remained untouched throughout the transfer, and stayed on the 2/4/5 Lines.
The R142 and R142A/R188 look different from each other.
The R142 has a black cut in the shell over the front door, while the R142A doesn’t. They also have different Traction Motors, being manufactured by different companies, and a the HVAC is much louder on the R142’s. There are also differences when it comes down to the external LED’s.
@@MysticTransit Not all the R142A cars were converted to R188. As you know the last 220 cars (7591-7810) were left as built and now run on the 4 line. The R188 contract included 38 new C cars, conversion of the 380 R142A cars, and 88 new R188 cars (8 11 car trains).
same
Someone finally shedded light on this station.
It definitely needed it…
I have to say, I've been appreciating this redundant station now that 149th is closed for construction.
It’s so odd seeing the comments about the station. I actually grew up in the building right next to the station, lived there for 20 years (90s into 00s). It felt hella isolating, like a ghost town which was weird because a few blocks away was St Marys Park and Gompers High School. No one ever walked that way. It was so normal for me, the desolation, and I didn’t realize how abnormal it was until I moved away.
This is a cool series! If you did a most used station series, I would watch it! As a matter of fact, it’d be interesting to watch an overview of every station if you’re interested in doing a gargantuan project.
Yeah, I’ll probably do a Most Used Stations series for each borough at some point. I don’t think I’ll do a video for each station in the system, but probably the most interesting.
It would also be a much shorter series, considering that Times Square/Port Authority Bus Terminal is the most used station (combining both into one complex) and how many trains pass through
I love the series, keep up the great work.
Question, I was wondering if you’re gonna continue the series After the (7) line, with Letter lines this time.
Glad you're enjoying the videos. I do plan to continue the series after the (7), and I'm probably gonna start with the (A), and go via trunk lines. So (A), (C), (E), (B), (D), etc.
It's not that it is the least used station on the 6, the issue is very few people pay the fare at this station. So it appears to the MTA, when they look at the swipes, that the station has low ridership.
Well, I had to make a video on it being the Least Used due to the ridership numbers. I'd suspect that even with everyone using their Metrocards at all the stations, this station would still be the least used. The gap is very large.
it’s definitely not a popular station,I forget this station even exists and I barely saw anyone on the platforms or get on and off
The Bronx part of the (1) line definitely has the least swipes because almost nobody gets on at those stations.
@@CZcamsLover123 cap, whole bunch of people get on and off on 242nd especially those who are continuing onto beeline busses to Yonkers
@@jerseydevil1995 242nd is the most populated on the (1) line because of people going downtown or people exiting because the train terminates there, but for trains going Uptown, the Bronx stations besides 242nd are barely used in terms of entering. Downtown is pretty populated though
I miss the R142a on the 6 line
If I had to take a Guess on the least used station on the (7) line I’ll say 69st ,
With it being in the middle of two transfer stations. (Very populated)
Edit: Bruh I was right🦧
Yup. Honestly, I would've expected it to be Hunters Point Avenue or something else, but the next video is 69 St-Fisk Avenue.
@@MysticTransit Trust me Hunters Point Avenue Is always full of people in the am rush hours buts its usually empty in mid day hours and weekends
Awesome video can’t wait for the IND
Coming soon!
I used to get off on this station stop back in the early 80s while I was working security for Shopwell during the overnight hours. The area at that time was a primary commercial with few residential buildings. Before you got off at that station, you had to make sure you contact someone to meet you there, fortunately, I had a nightstick.
149th is my stop, and I've always found 143rd utterly weird. Everything to both the east and south of it is industrial. Everything to the north of it, you just use 149th st. To the west, you have like three residential blocks where it makes sense to use 143rd, and then you hit St Mary's park. I almost never see anyone get on or off there from the train, and walking by it the area is always completely deserted. No one has any reason to walk by there almost ever, it's not on the way to anything, just this industrial stretch connecting Southern and Bruckner.
I'm pretty sure that the reason it's there, is it's technically the closest station to St Mary's Park, and even then only counting the baseball field down in the corner. I think most people would be fine with using 149th or Cypress for that.
I love your videos keep up the good work also that station attendant is bored
Will do, and yeah, probably was bored, having to work at the Least Used Station on the line.
Mystic did you realize the sixth video involves the 6 Train, As well the first,second,third,fourth and fifth videos, They all involve the same line as the video is titled, Excluding the letter line trains.
Becoming a fan of this channel. Awesome work. May you do a video of the Least used station on the (Q) line? I’m interested to see what stop on the Brighton line is it. I lived the first 16 years of my life near the Newkirk Plaza stop. And always look down from the fence to see the local n express trains rush in.
Well I’m in East 149th street so I could agree that this station is kinda a waste of time just for me getting to school
He got upset about the station being filmed because no one ever films it.
Probably got lonely being a station attendant in the least used station in the whole of the IRT.
I think he got upset because he doesn’t want people to see how useless the station is.
@@CZcamsLover123 I don't know about it being useless, but it's not really in the best condition. Although 21st Street in Long Island City made this one look like a brand new 2nd Avenue Line station, and somebody else convinced me another station was even worse.
Did this stretch of track get replaced not very long ago?? It has that continuous weld sound like the concourse line.
I’m not sure, but a lot of the Pelham Line sounds like that.
@@MysticTransit had to have. It doesn't sound like most underground stations, and that's good IMO. I just wish all the elevated sections were redone like the market frankford line in philly back in the early 2000's.
I worked this station during the beginning of the 21st century. It is very dangerous. I had a would be robber approach me bent over and trying to fool me. I raced ahead and went back to the booth.
Maybe if they cleaned it up a bit it would get more people. Even just running a power washer or something would probably make a big difference and wouldn't cost too much.
In order for this station to really get used more, it needs some more residential/commercial development near it.
nah thats not the case. it all has to do with the neighborhood and area. there’s warehouses all around it. it needs industrializing
@@m_duuhh and which would bring more mental people
@@DeathMorethanlife not saying industrialization is a good thing, mental people aren’t either but they are everywhere anyways
Can you do for the IND station 170th St on the Concourse Line?
In the IND/BMT series
That's not a least used station on the B or D Lines. I only do the Least Used Stations in the system. If I find something interesting about the station in the future, I might make a video on it.
@@MysticTransit Ok. Thanks for the information!
I don't think even the Gompters students use this station! It's easier to use the Bx17 bus!
Always seemed like a redundant station tbh
You don't need a permit to film at an mta station as long as the camera is handheld
What about the R train
My home line
Sams
You can film but without flash
Never had flash on. The Station Attendant just wanted to be an annoyance.
I already know the least used station on the (7) line. 33 Street Rawson Street. I might be wrong though, but who knows?
Nope. It is at the end of this video. 69 St.
@RYAN AYALA nice
Willets Point station City Field.
LaGuardia CC is right off that line, that's gotta be one of the MOST used stations on the 7 lol
Wondering what is more disgusting? This station or Chambers Street station?
Definitely Chambers St.
Looks decent to me
This honestly isn't that bad looking once you look at *3rd Avenue- 138th Street.*
Doesn't the employee know the 4th amendment?
Riders per minute, hour, day, week, month, year, century?
Bruh...
Per Day is around 1K People, but everything else is practically impossible to get.
@@MysticTransit Then the MTA figure 313,938 is per year. Dude, you need to say, "annually" when you give these numbers. Otherwise, great work.
Something else to consider: when the IRT trains were built in the Bronx circa 1920, the routes and frequency of stops reflected the settlement pattern of the time. The concentration of homes and industry, was in the South and West Bronx, nearer to Manhattan. My guess is that this station was in a busy manufacturing district at the time of its construction.
Well, I am saying "2019 Ridership Numbers..." so I was thinking everyone would know I'm talking about the whole year. You are correct about the station being in a manufacturing district. The station served (and still does) serve some industry businesses around the area.
I'll keep the Annually thing in mind for future videos though.
This isn’t the best area to walk around.