NYC subway stations are smelly and ugly, full with cracked tiles and very often have broken or burnt fluorescent lights. They should've renovated the stations 20 years ago. Even my country's metro system have platform screen doors on all stations. Also despite their modern appearance, NYC subway trains still looks outdated because of it's exposed stainless steel, they could at least paint their trains. US just like their tasteless trains.
@@mleonee Stainless look might be iconic, but painting the trains wouldn't necessarily ruin it. Stainless look makes sense in cities like NYC and Chicago, but would look out of place outdated certain environment. Also NYC used to have red trains, nicknamed Redbirds. Modern trains have black on their front-ends
The subway is magical, it is a world which allows yourself to go back in time to an era mostly forgotten and abandoned. If you close your eyes hard enough, the golden age of 1920's-1950's rapid transit is still alive. This despite it almost 100 years. To think those same screeching sounds were the ones generations of people in the past also heard. Then to think those are the same rail paths the original IRT's and BMT's cars took. Lastly the stations original tiling, support beams, designs, and mosaics on the wall. Generations of people past seen those as well. Every time I get goosebumps. Riding the subway allows me to fulfill an impossible dream, to time travel to the best era in history. Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine is ALIVE!! LONG LIVE THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ELEVATEDS, SUBWAYS, AND TROLLEYS.
This is the soundtrack of my high school years. I’ve been in Connecticut for nearly 40 but the sweetest subway sounds to me will always be the Lexington Express Redbirds at top speed between 14th St and Grand Central 🥰
Me, three. However, I was lucky enough to become a station agent for MTA New York City Subway. And-I must admit-dealing with rude and obnoxious passengers was quite a challenge. And I was forced to leave for health reasons. But I enjoyed, as I like to put it, “playing with the world’s biggest electric train set.”
I used to live in Chicago when it was a beautiful city. I rode the trains daily....now I'm disabled and alone in a house in North Carolina. Many years have passed and this makes me yearn for being able to run up those stairs again and board the train! The subway was cool in the hot summer but I loved the above ground trains! I was so active and now I haven't been able to leave my home in a year. My consolation is knowing I'll be flying with Jesus someday 😊
2:22 there's a distinct sound of the R68's climbing onto the Manhattan bridge that I can't put my finger on but even when I'm in a slumber I can tell where I am when I hear that clear rumble.
The subways I have here, in Germany, are nothing compared to the New York City Subway, despite some of the sounds being the same, like the screeching trains when they hit a tight curve. Man, I want to go there one day and take a ride on one of the most famous subway systems in the world (maybe my first ride will go to Yankee Stadium?) 🙂
We used to live in the bronx and my dad worked at manhattan and the clickity clackity sounds of the train was so annoying back then but when we went home to our home country, i never realized how much i miss riding the subway
I kinda think the Alstom ONIX propulsion sounds pretty weird. I’m usually not a big fan of screechy noises to be honest, and I do hope the R142’s have their ONIX propulsion (and their unnecessarily loud HVAC as well) replaced when they undergo their mid-life overhaul. The R160’s can keep their propulsion tho, both Alstom ONIX and Siemens SITRAC, when the time comes for their mid-life overhaul.
For 15 years I traveled on these subways. The R160s, R43s, R28s, I remember being excited to see every train variation. And the fact it didn’t lose its charm and beauty is amazing.
Finally got to visit New York City after wanting to for so long, and this video brought back great memories. Yes, the subway is noisy and dirty and crowded, but the way it transports you through the city is magic, and there is so much history. We found the station agents to be tremendously helpful. Can't wait to go back.
Thank you for making this. These sounds were such a big part of my time living in NYC and listening to/watching this brought back so many memories + feelings.
I wish I seen this video sooner. I turned my headphones up to the max and just enjoyed the hell out them sounds. Despite me never being in NYC before, I find the sounds of it is so soothing. This video is certainly getting added to my favorites. Thank you MTA for the ASMR experience there. I hope to see you people soon. :)
Being someone who’s been on the NYC Subway several times throughout his life and enjoys it so much, this is amazing ASMR! I can relax to this! Nice work MTA! Love this!
these are the sounds of long ago and far away, it is not like that anymore. I used to love the train & the sounds & fall asleep to them, no more, you can't rest, fall asleep, read or anything else, every minute on the minute they are telling you things you don't need to know - like watch your belongings, over & over & over again. If I could hear the sounds on this video I wouldn't have any complaints, but this is not IT anymore. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. this is already an antique.
I'm from Toronto, Toronto has a pretty good subway system with great noises (Look up the T1 subway train)... but theres just something about the NYC Subway that's more iconic... I yern to go back to NYC
I loved the sounds of the ol d R-1 cars when I was a kid. You could hear the motors as the train gained speed. The new subway cars to me have no personality to them. They're nice, don't get me wrong, but I will always love the older rolling stock
I do love to ride my R46 N trains or my R68 N trains or the R68A N trains from Coney Island to Queens or the R68 D trains from Coney Island to the Bronx to 205 street the last stop to there my MTA family live ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😭
Nope. Went ON NYC subway For first time over the weekend and my guy asked me if I did not sleep good...bc I kept falling asleep on the train from Penn Station to Long Island 😂😂😂 . I told him I slept great but the sounds make me sleepy 😂😂😂
Ive only skimmed through, but do they have a random cello player, a group of boys screaming "its showtime showtime..." etc? seriously missing out if that isnt included
That sound doesn't really have a name, but it is a jingle, and it is part of the announcement that plays in stations. The little jingle plays first, and then an announcement plays.
I would pay hard cash to NOT HAVE TO HEAR THE CONSTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE TRAINS THESE DAY! If not for alll the announcements I would enjoy the train lot lot more.
Announcements are essential for peoples to know when is the next stop or if any delay or something like that happens. Every system I. The world has announcements including china’s and Japan’s.
Why? The announcements are one of the most iconic aspects of the NYC Subway! I’ve never been anywhere else where the Subway system had unique & iconic announcements like NYC does. This is coming from someone who doesn’t live far from the city. That should say a lot 😂
what you are listening to might very well be iconic, but what one is hearing on the trains now is not the sounds of yesteryear, it is the same problem on the buses, you can't read a paper without hearing announcements every minute on the minute, they don't even say what the train is heading for (like the World Trade Center) - the E & F don't even have the little bell that used to go off - if you haven't been to NY in 10 or 20 years it is not the same as it was. An icon is something (or someone you revere, look up to, simply put it is not the same, it is plain irritating, I think if you could here what it sounds like now you would be unpleasantly surprised, a native New Yorker...who has always loved the trains, just not the announcements lately.
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the trains propulsion and clickity clack and squeaky screech, the ambience of the tunnels, the trains announcement and other sounds are so iconic
I agree
Lol theres nothimg "ambiance" about it when youre down there though lol
NYC subway stations are smelly and ugly, full with cracked tiles and very often have broken or burnt fluorescent lights. They should've renovated the stations 20 years ago.
Even my country's metro system have platform screen doors on all stations.
Also despite their modern appearance, NYC subway trains still looks outdated because of it's exposed stainless steel, they could at least paint their trains. US just like their tasteless trains.
@@automation7295the stainless look is iconic. Painting the trains would ruin it.
@@mleonee Stainless look might be iconic, but painting the trains wouldn't necessarily ruin it.
Stainless look makes sense in cities like NYC and Chicago, but would look out of place outdated certain environment. Also NYC used to have red trains, nicknamed Redbirds.
Modern trains have black on their front-ends
If these sounds were on CD Id buy it
The subway is magical, it is a world which allows yourself to go back in time to an era mostly forgotten and abandoned. If you close your eyes hard enough, the golden age of 1920's-1950's rapid transit is still alive. This despite it almost 100 years. To think those same screeching sounds were the ones generations of people in the past also heard. Then to think those are the same rail paths the original IRT's and BMT's cars took. Lastly the stations original tiling, support beams, designs, and mosaics on the wall. Generations of people past seen those as well. Every time I get goosebumps. Riding the subway allows me to fulfill an impossible dream, to time travel to the best era in history. Artie Shaw's Begin the Beguine is ALIVE!! LONG LIVE THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE ELEVATEDS, SUBWAYS, AND TROLLEYS.
This is the soundtrack of my high school years. I’ve been in Connecticut for nearly 40 but the sweetest subway sounds to me will always be the Lexington Express Redbirds at top speed between 14th St and Grand Central 🥰
The Lexington Avenue express-which I hope you will someday use to get to Grand Central Madison (a great place, by the way).
This needs more sounds of the closing doors.
The New Yorkest of soundscapes....
The sound of my childhood and life. Beautiful memories that nearly left me crying. Thank you.
Same
Me too
Me, three.
However, I was lucky enough to become a station agent for MTA New York City Subway.
And-I must admit-dealing with rude and obnoxious passengers was quite a challenge.
And I was forced to leave for health reasons.
But I enjoyed, as I like to put it, “playing with the world’s biggest electric train set.”
Crying over some sounds😂
@@Retirement670, or rather happy crying over the memories those sounds bring. :)
My favorite noise was when the subway started to move
I used to live in Chicago when it was a beautiful city. I rode the trains daily....now I'm disabled and alone in a house in North Carolina. Many years have passed and this makes me yearn for being able to run up those stairs again and board the train! The subway was cool in the hot summer but I loved the above ground trains! I was so active and now I haven't been able to leave my home in a year. My consolation is knowing I'll be flying with Jesus someday 😊
Sorry for your disability 😢
Why did you move to a car infested hellscape? You should have stayed in Chicago or NYC where you could get around without a car
2:22 there's a distinct sound of the R68's climbing onto the Manhattan bridge that I can't put my finger on but even when I'm in a slumber I can tell where I am when I hear that clear rumble.
The subways I have here, in Germany, are nothing compared to the New York City Subway, despite some of the sounds being the same, like the screeching trains when they hit a tight curve. Man, I want to go there one day and take a ride on one of the most famous subway systems in the world (maybe my first ride will go to Yankee Stadium?) 🙂
Come thru man! As a native nyc we welcome you bro
This is going to be vintage footage someday.
guys the MTA went railfanning for the first time ☹️
wdym thats cool
🤣🤣🤣😭
they've done stuff before. wdym?
Fr
MTA railfanning their own subway system 🤯🤯🤯
This takes me back to NYC memories every time ❤ I miss this city
Same😔💔
Gonna be away from NYC for the next 4 years as I am attending college. This gives me such nostalgia and yearning I have to go back to the city
Why didn't you study in New York?
@@rizars77Also studying away from the city - it’s a love hate relationship I got away to pay attention more
Why am I watching this when I can just walk outside and experience it myself
Real💀
So, when I can't get to sleep, I play this video.
Weird to think that I would have an emotional connection with a train system, but wow. I miss living in NYC.
Now that is what I called, soothing ASMR noises from the NYC Subways of the MTA. : )
Very amazing! You should have added in one fight and one crackhead screaming to really make it authentic.
A bunch of people recorded events like that.
I just came back from NYC. Came here to get a throwback to the subways I took daily from Queens to Manhattan.
lived in NYC for one year 2005-2006 (from UK but NYC in my heart forever).
I love the sound the vibrations the smell nyc subway will forever be in my heart even though I don’t live in New York no more
Something abt it bro, anyone outside of nyc would think the smells disgusting but for us New Yorkers it’s an aroma so pleasing
where do you live now?
We used to live in the bronx and my dad worked at manhattan and the clickity clackity sounds of the train was so annoying back then but when we went home to our home country, i never realized how much i miss riding the subway
I love the Alstom propulsion noises!
Sounds kinda creepy though!
@@AshmewStudios it's not creepy to me lol it sounds average
I kinda think the Alstom ONIX propulsion sounds pretty weird. I’m usually not a big fan of screechy noises to be honest, and I do hope the R142’s have their ONIX propulsion (and their unnecessarily loud HVAC as well) replaced when they undergo their mid-life overhaul. The R160’s can keep their propulsion tho, both Alstom ONIX and Siemens SITRAC, when the time comes for their mid-life overhaul.
For 15 years I traveled on these subways. The R160s, R43s, R28s, I remember being excited to see every train variation. And the fact it didn’t lose its charm and beauty is amazing.
Finally got to visit New York City after wanting to for so long, and this video brought back great memories. Yes, the subway is noisy and dirty and crowded, but the way it transports you through the city is magic, and there is so much history. We found the station agents to be tremendously helpful. Can't wait to go back.
Thank you for making this. These sounds were such a big part of my time living in NYC and listening to/watching this brought back so many memories + feelings.
such a gorgeous sounds
it really gives you feeling to be in the NY metro, and very well mixed, and recorded of course
Something about the ambiance >>>>>>
Absolutely beautiful! So thankful I discovered this video! 🥰
This is so awesome. Perfect ASMR material!
Takes me back. Thanks!
I wish I seen this video sooner. I turned my headphones up to the max and just enjoyed the hell out them sounds. Despite me never being in NYC before, I find the sounds of it is so soothing. This video is certainly getting added to my favorites. Thank you MTA for the ASMR experience there. I hope to see you people soon. :)
Being someone who’s been on the NYC Subway several times throughout his life and enjoys it so much, this is amazing ASMR! I can relax to this! Nice work MTA! Love this!
This is LITERALLY channel 3 - TRVK Muscovy during the 2004-2006 era with the cool slate tiles and cool music
Incredible video.
I love this!!
these are the sounds of long ago and far away, it is not like that anymore. I used to love the train & the sounds & fall asleep to them, no more, you can't rest, fall asleep, read or anything else, every minute on the minute they are telling you things you don't need to know - like watch your belongings, over & over & over again. If I could hear the sounds on this video I wouldn't have any complaints, but this is not IT anymore. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. this is already an antique.
Oh my god, I love this 😍😍
That's truly the subway for you.
you know whats even better than the sound of the subway? *the smell.*
bro the smell brings back so many memories
its either piss or the iconic subway smell
OMG THE SMELL
I'm from Toronto, Toronto has a pretty good subway system with great noises (Look up the T1 subway train)... but theres just something about the NYC Subway that's more iconic... I yern to go back to NYC
I miss this sounds 🥹
Kinda feel like I’m waiting for a train somehow.
Cela me rappelle tellement de bons souvenirs passés à Manhattan
I like that you do this MTA😊
The bell on the F train headed to Coney Island from Manhattan LES in the 1970s.
Would love to hear the sounds of the R train as it goes around the tight curves on both sides of the Montague St tunnel
Well done!
Or the W trains to Queens from Whitehall street 👍🏻
So… MTA ASMR?
Awesome
You forgot the switch clangs in-between after trains leave and before they enter.
I loved the sounds of the ol d R-1 cars when I was a kid. You could hear the motors as the train gained speed. The new subway cars to me have no personality to them. They're nice, don't get me wrong, but I will always love the older rolling stock
The sounds of the Thunderbirds (R-1 thru R-9) should be trademarked. Don’t forget the smell of the rattan seats or the whir of the ceiling fans.
Miss Jessica voice on Lexington avenue
fall asleep to this video😴
I took that train today
mais uma live excelente
They forgot the sounds of the Crazy people outside.
You forgot the dances music on the trains 24/7
Missing this ny sound 🥹
Yep
I do love to ride my R46 N trains or my R68 N trains or the R68A N trains from Coney Island to Queens or the R68 D trains from Coney Island to the Bronx to 205 street the last stop to there my MTA family live ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😭
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Is it weird that this helps me sleep?
Nope. Went ON NYC subway For first time over the weekend and my guy asked me if I did not sleep good...bc I kept falling asleep on the train from Penn Station to Long Island 😂😂😂 . I told him I slept great but the sounds make me sleepy 😂😂😂
NOT AT ALL 😅
What a nice sound! can I use it?
now do the smells of the subway
May I ask what camera or microphone did you use when recording this video? Thanks!
Can you do more videos like this? ❤
can you make a 10 hour version of this?
Hey! Do different lines like start at lexicon avenue line
Damn
Ive only skimmed through, but do they have a random cello player, a group of boys screaming "its showtime showtime..." etc? seriously missing out if that isnt included
Therapy
E Train Godly
no way 💀its filled with the homeless
7 train Godly
S-tier if only because it takes me to my gf in Forest Hills from the East Side ASAP
@@felipefeldman9149 dang
Bruh what those goofy ahh departure noises on the first one 😭😭😭☠️☠️☠️
Like the london underground sounds better than this
i miss the *mmhhmmhhmmhm* announcement
Can’t wait to get pushed off the platform onto the tracks while listening to this on max with my headphones on 💀
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Forgot the sound of a homeless guy screaming in my face but accurate nevertheless.
Niceee
Could be used for Roblox audio I guess
edit: Nevermind these do not really fit Roblox audio like sound uh idk
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MTA Subway ✅
0:14 - 0:40 yw
1:11
Royalty free or nah?
Can somebody tell me what this sound is called again at 1:34?
Either the sound that the train makes before the conductor talks or before an announcement from the city
That sound doesn't really have a name, but it is a jingle, and it is part of the announcement that plays in stations. The little jingle plays first, and then an announcement plays.
The sound of Nyc jus add a lil of Mexican music
No existing sound quite like the subway
Stand clear of the closing doors. *doo doo*
No occasional mariachi band ? Pole dancers? Musicians playing plastic buckets with drum sticks?
No, this is from the MTA, they apparently don’t like showing those things. But they do encourage them.
the sound of nyc jus add a lil mexican music to it
E train announcements 0:00
Z train leaving the station 0:14
Train coming to Union Square, 0:43
R62A arriving at Union Square, 1:35
Inside the R62A 2:22
People leaving the R46 2:50
I would pay hard cash to NOT HAVE TO HEAR THE CONSTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE TRAINS THESE DAY! If not for alll the announcements I would enjoy the train lot lot more.
Announcements are essential for peoples to know when is the next stop or if any delay or something like that happens. Every system I. The world has announcements including china’s and Japan’s.
Why? The announcements are one of the most iconic aspects of the NYC Subway! I’ve never been anywhere else where the Subway system had unique & iconic announcements like NYC does. This is coming from someone who doesn’t live far from the city. That should say a lot 😂
@@williamscoufaras7045 how many times do you need to hear that there are over 100 accessible stations? Come on..when is enough enough?
MTASMR
truly
what you are listening to might very well be iconic, but what one is hearing on the trains now is not the sounds of yesteryear, it is the same problem on the buses, you can't read a paper without hearing announcements every minute on the minute, they don't even say what the train is heading for (like the World Trade Center) - the E & F don't even have the little bell that used to go off - if you haven't been to NY in 10 or 20 years it is not the same as it was. An icon is something (or someone you revere, look up to, simply put it is not the same, it is plain irritating, I think if you could here what it sounds like now you would be unpleasantly surprised, a native New Yorker...who has always loved the trains, just not the announcements lately.
Eh I am pretty fine with it. Never have been bothered and I can chill on the trains just fine.
Seems like you got a flat wheel at 0:30
First
You forgot the sounds of people screaming while getting assaulted or robbed on the train
LMAOOOO
You also forgot the sounds of people asking
But it is still the best way to get around…
@@aqua2poweros699 LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
this is very stereotypical among the transit community
The Subway is so ghetto.
U tryna hate on the subway? Lol