Oh my God you literally explored every single area within the abandoned platform and mezzanine. Amazing job, I think out of every video out there, you have the best footage of the station
I like urban exploring but it always brings on a feeling of sadness in me. I know what effort and expense it took to construct those stations and to see the neglect and waste gets me every time...Show me more....No use avoiding sad reality...Well done video...
You captured the old Canal St station platform and the surrounding areas very well. I see this stuff and think of all the lives that passed through there over the decades. Great job!
I was kinda waiting for an insane bum to come running at you with a two-by-for from some unexpected angle. just like condemned criminal origins. Great footage, very atmospheric!
I was walking on X street yesterday and the door shown at 8:58 was wide open! My friend I went down cuz we thought maybe it was some super hip club lol! We only went down a little bit and quickly became terrified. All the lights were red. We climbed back up , and some girls on the street asked us what was down there and we said “we don’t know but it’s horrifying!” We left and the door was still wide open!
The whole station isn’t abandoned it’s just this section also a lot of stations were closed because they were to close to express stops they can’t really use old stations for like public use such as night clubs since the trains still run also some abandoned sections of stations are used for storing trains
@@soullessprincess6473 I still see one of the train tracks in the abandoned station that is still intact with the 3rd rail. I wonder if the MTA still uses that train track sometimes to store trains??
There is still infrastructure in these stations that connects to the rest of the subway. If for whatever reason workers need to get down there, it would be much safer if there was light
Best exploration of Canal Street I've seen so far, well done. Too bad you didn't go into that door around 10:30. Back in the day there used to be two staircases leading up to the platform level from the lower mezzanine, with the one inside that room slabbed over a long time ago, but perhaps the bottom of it still exists. However, that room did look rather nasty (with most likely a matching smell) so probably not worth it. All in all, you can still make out the nice decoration and tiles this station once had.
Diseases are probably in there. This is so poor the MTA would let that happen, I'm sure it could have been a space for something useful since they leave the lights on. It's like they still must use this area except whatever is in the door due to the light being left on. These random shopping carts are kinda strange too, how did they get there along with all that trash?
@@42luke93 Homeless people probably. They sometimes have shopping carts, so a few of them might've left them in the station and the MTA did nothing about it.
This canal street platform has been abandoned for 30 years and the mta won’t make this the late night m train terminal station because it’s inefficient.
This video seems surreal.. The fact that this just lingers with no initiative is kinda crazy. I believe they are aware of the decay but just let it be. The passivity of the city sometimes is woah.
Abandoned or not, don’t test your fate walking on or placing your feet underneath the third rail. ( People tend to do stupid things at time’s)😏 but other then that? Great video✊🏽
Hands down the best video of the abandoed platform. I still dont understand why the celling is so low where the abandoned token booth is located, I'm 5'8 and I had to duck the whole time in that area. The celing had these concrete icicles hanging everywhere.
that ceiling is the underside of the sidewalk immediately above. That part of the line was built close to the street level so geometry was tight. MTA closed it around 1995 ish.
I'm gonna guess that this was abandoned, in 2005 after 1) The southbound platform of the J/M/Z line was renovated, linking both directions on the same platform, and 2) the 20-year completion of the renovation of the Manhattan Bridge, to which the connecting Broadway line (N, R, Q) uses. I remember this platform very well.....!
When you're on the J/Z platform if you look through the wall that would split the previously other destination platform, you can see the abandoned side.
you are correct. First phase of the reno and relocation of electrical services was done in 94-99 or so. Follow on contract closed the uptown side and reconfigured the track as well as south end of south bound was demo'd
Thanks I thought it was the A line I was about to lose it. It's still a waste.they could at least clean it up then seal it off so the East river won't be so scary.
Exactly that. When someone is on the track bed at a station & emergency response has to go down there, electricity is cut & it will affect about eight stations, that’s why service disruption can affect other lines. The light to illuminate the stations are all coming from the same power source in the area. The station is still in use, just not that section. I just can’t believe a bulb hasn’t blown yet 🤔 lol.
Excellent walk. I haven't been down there since 1998 and remember closing that token booth and slabbing the sidewalk over. Devil's Advocate was filmed there with Keanu Reeves just before it was permanently closed.
With everyone screaming for Green Transportation you would think the subway system would be the city's greatest asset it breaks my heart to see stations looking like this today's New York City sucks
One would think tho that there would be much higher caliber graffiti considering how unlikely you'd be to get busted there. Meanwhile I've seen some amazing work that looked impossible to get to and very exposed on the freeways here in CA
It's so amazing how much abandoned stations are hitting in New York City awesome job exploring the abandoned stations just don't get in trouble by the NYPD if they catch you down there I think it's illegal but it's amazing.
I remember thinking how the Canal Street station is such an amazing labyrinth of train tunnels, passageways… who knows how,any levels from street to the deepest tunnel…
that part (J-M line) is relatively shallow in parts. The 4-5-6 line is also very close to the street. The cross connects to connect to the lower platform for express trains is very deep (40 feet below the street).
@@monsterajr1 Which line is on the active side @3:00? I think you can see some of the old track on the other side of the wall from the N/Q line going towards the Manhattan bridge.
I used to work in lower Manhattan and used this station, this very platform, regularly. Very sad to see how dilapidated it has become. I’m sure the corresponding abandoned platform at Bowery, the next station north, is about the same. When you think about how much work went into the construction of this station, mostly by immigrant labor in the 1910’s, it’s really a shame to see it all fall apart.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 I was thinking about that, it was used in a few SVU episodes earlier on, and now they use the Bowery Station that is also use for tactical training.
Back when that line first opened it was extremely busy hence the double platforms at most stations. However in the intervening years, the line has seen ridership shift and also be serviced by other lines that opened. That's the reason the Canal street station was reconfigured to allow partial closure and the same for the Bowery stop. If you look carefully on the open part of the Canal JMZ platform you will see remnants of two other street exits to the northern end that would have opened up to where the Pagoda building is today. The part in the video where they go up a set of stairs next to an open pit used to be another entry with an escalator.
There used to be an entrance on the NE corner of Canal and Centre streets to access the Queens bound M. I remember the staircase leading to that brick token booth years ago.
Amazing. Video had a very "backrooms" feel to it. Perhaps a bit too much attention to all the graffiti, but that's my only issue with it. Glad to see the sign explaining what trains were once involved in this section. I would be curious to know if anyone can answer, as I no longer live in NYC, what line is still operational on the other side of the wall that we see? And did you have to go through the hole to get from the active to abandoned section? Again, well done overall and thanks for sharing.
I always wonder why did they shut down the southbound side of the Nassau street line and only use the uptown side of the Nassau street line? It seemes they only use all 4 tracks from Chambers street on South
Decreased ridership and cost to keep a very lightly platform in good aesthetic state. Canal and Bowery were also notoriously sketchy back in the 90's - 00's so consolidating the people to one area vs spread out is also a safety issue.
Cuz the Brown M Train don't go there no more for rush hour to Brooklyn which became the orange M Train that go to where the G Train used to go at and yes trains still on that track from Time to Time
I know sometimes the MTA cleans those abandoned sides up but looking at another video I've seen of that station, it does look like someone was going at it graffiting the walls insanely. As for the closet and some of the stairwells, very well knowing there should be a door or exit that leads to the active side, the MTA likely puts anything they have to remove from the active side on the abandoned side. It's like if someone ended up dying, they will have to put the body bag in the storage closet until it gets picked up.. But i wouldn't be surprised if some of the other mess was related to homeless people at one point but seeing how the station must not have active heat on that side, they didn't wanna stay.
It’s funny because when you go up the emergency escalator towards the exit, you can hear those stupid toy robots and frogs they sell near by hahahaha lololol
Oh my God you literally explored every single area within the abandoned platform and mezzanine. Amazing job, I think out of every video out there, you have the best footage of the station
Yo your everywhere lol
@@DJWreckAlot what can I say, I love watching and doing urban exploration
I'll bet the smell was unbearable
No hi didn't
I like urban exploring but it always brings on a feeling of sadness in me. I know what effort and expense it took to construct those stations and to see the neglect and waste gets me every time...Show me more....No use avoiding sad reality...Well done video...
By the way, the $1.50 subway fare was in effect from late 1995 to mid 2003. The abandonment of the platform and mezzanine took place in 2004.
Me and my mom have use this Canal street when i was a kids :)
You captured the old Canal St station platform and the surrounding areas very well. I see this stuff and think of all the lives that passed through there over the decades. Great job!
I was kinda waiting for an insane bum to come running at you with a two-by-for from some unexpected angle. just like condemned criminal origins. Great footage, very atmospheric!
I was walking on X street yesterday and the door shown at 8:58 was wide open! My friend I went down cuz we thought maybe it was some super hip club lol! We only went down a little bit and quickly became terrified. All the lights were red. We climbed back up , and some girls on the street asked us what was down there and we said “we don’t know but it’s horrifying!” We left and the door was still wide open!
What street?
@ 8:33 there looks to be low pressure sodium lighting next to the florescent lights. Low pressure sodium gives a redish amber light.
@@ChaseMavrick baxter
@@StoneyHoliday where on baxter is it?
So sad to see MTA incompetence of abandoning a station without finding a use for it.
The whole station isn’t abandoned it’s just this section also a lot of stations were closed because they were to close to express stops they can’t really use old stations for like public use such as night clubs since the trains still run also some abandoned sections of stations are used for storing trains
@@soullessprincess6473 I still see one of the train tracks in the abandoned station that is still intact with the 3rd rail. I wonder if the MTA still uses that train track sometimes to store trains??
You can still find a use for these stations even though the mta says otherwise.
@@soullessprincess6473 ehhh Tom Ford managed to use in 2020 for a fashion launch?
Yeah
this video really makes me appreciate how iconic and marvelous the new york city subway system is
Why are the lights always on on these abandoned stations?
Because Of Darkness
Well at least this one isn’t fully abandoned and there’s a platform that’s actually used
Because when the “warriors come out to play” …….
That bitch is probably straight hardwired into the power grid lmao.
There is still infrastructure in these stations that connects to the rest of the subway. If for whatever reason workers need to get down there, it would be much safer if there was light
Love this, so eerie yet so cool. Hoping y’all will visit more stations
Jesus this whole abandoned platform and mezzanine are straight up terrifying
Nice video without any shaking or annoying kids talking
Brings me back to the 80's This station was in a bad area and that stations always smells urine 24/7.
Love the teal pillars and the tile, You can definitely see the full beauty of the 20th century!
Best exploration of Canal Street I've seen so far, well done. Too bad you didn't go into that door around 10:30. Back in the day there used to be two staircases leading up to the platform level from the lower mezzanine, with the one inside that room slabbed over a long time ago, but perhaps the bottom of it still exists. However, that room did look rather nasty (with most likely a matching smell) so probably not worth it. All in all, you can still make out the nice decoration and tiles this station once had.
Diseases are probably in there. This is so poor the MTA would let that happen, I'm sure it could have been a space for something useful since they leave the lights on. It's like they still must use this area except whatever is in the door due to the light being left on.
These random shopping carts are kinda strange too, how did they get there along with all that trash?
should have taken the canal st signs dummy!!!
@@42luke93 Homeless people probably. They sometimes have shopping carts, so a few of them might've left them in the station and the MTA did nothing about it.
This canal street platform has been abandoned for 30 years and the mta won’t make this the late night m train terminal station because it’s inefficient.
Amazing video!! Thank you for the showcase and glad you guys were safe!!
This video seems surreal.. The fact that this just lingers with no initiative is kinda crazy. I believe they are aware of the decay but just let it be. The passivity of the city sometimes is woah.
Abandoned or not, don’t test your fate walking on or placing your feet underneath the third rail. ( People tend to do stupid things at time’s)😏 but other then that? Great video✊🏽
9:50 etc is that trench meant to house an escalator? \m/
Yes
I wonder if they took it out to reuse it elsewhere.
no , they were long gone when reno work started in 1994@@42luke93
If anyone asks what line is this this the BMT Nassau Street Line
(J),(Z) and Brown (M)
Woww thank you I didn’t know that so wait doesn’t the J go to Canal still but I’m a different part of the station or am I just lost?
@@guyaensedimented7376 Yes, the J is routed to the active platform of Canal Street (J,Z).
Reminds me of the movie 'the warriors "
Hands down the best video of the abandoed platform. I still dont understand why the celling is so low where the abandoned token booth is located, I'm 5'8 and I had to duck the whole time in that area. The celing had these concrete icicles hanging everywhere.
that ceiling is the underside of the sidewalk immediately above. That part of the line was built close to the street level so geometry was tight. MTA closed it around 1995 ish.
Man that’s really cool! I’ve never been to NYC but I’d love to go just to see the subways and the abandoned areas.
Same here man I live in LA and honestly wonder if there’s cool shit like this too
This is giving me Michael Jackson's "bad" video vibes 😍😍😍
Hoyt Schermerhorn Station on The A Line
@@REXXSEVEN_III thought I recognize the station thanks for the clarification ⌚💯🕊️🙏🏿😱
@@REXXSEVEN_III thought I recognize the station thanks for the clarification ⌚💯🕊️🙏🏿😱
@@REXXSEVEN_III thought I recognize the station thanks for the clarification ⌚💯🕊️🙏🏿😱
How do you get in there???????????????
2:58 cross the tracks from the non abandoned side
@@shoface1798 ahhhhhhhhh ok cool, thanks bro!!!
@@bigben1986 If u tryna get in I know a way in from Bowery st.
@@sabiralam9383 Definitely trying to get in there.
@@sabiralam9383 kinda late here, but i would be down to go exploring
I'm gonna guess that this was abandoned, in 2005 after 1) The southbound platform of the J/M/Z line was renovated, linking both directions on the same platform, and 2) the 20-year completion of the renovation of the Manhattan Bridge, to which the connecting Broadway line (N, R, Q) uses. I remember this platform very well.....!
Well they did have tokens. I thought those went away in the 1990s
When you're on the J/Z platform if you look through the wall that would split the previously other destination platform, you can see the abandoned side.
you are correct. First phase of the reno and relocation of electrical services was done in 94-99 or so. Follow on contract closed the uptown side and reconfigured the track as well as south end of south bound was demo'd
Thanks I thought it was the A line I was about to lose it. It's still a waste.they could at least clean it up then seal it off so the East river won't be so scary.
I’m amazed these abandoned stations still have powered lighting. Perhaps they can’t cut the power without affecting other stations on the line?
Exactly that. When someone is on the track bed at a station & emergency response has to go down there, electricity is cut & it will affect about eight stations, that’s why service disruption can affect other lines. The light to illuminate the stations are all coming from the same power source in the area. The station is still in use, just not that section. I just can’t believe a bulb hasn’t blown yet 🤔 lol.
Excellent walk. I haven't been down there since 1998 and remember closing that token booth and slabbing the sidewalk over. Devil's Advocate was filmed there with Keanu Reeves just before it was permanently closed.
How many movies were filmed down here? Beat Street, The Wiz, Ghostbusters 2, the list goes on...
With everyone screaming for Green Transportation you would think the subway system would be the city's greatest asset it breaks my heart to see stations looking like this today's New York City sucks
Its closed so people dont enter idiot
I think this place is full of ghosts.. So spooky!!..
Great video, Congrats...
6:23 that area is slightly neglected and flooded
That's what makes it scary and no receding of the water.i fund concerning.
One would think tho that there would be much higher caliber graffiti considering how unlikely you'd be to get busted there. Meanwhile I've seen some amazing work that looked impossible to get to and very exposed on the freeways here in CA
It was open back in 2002...but don't know when they close it...
The city has more abandoned stations then in use.
472 in use
lol that’s a big fat lie…
@@imdanumber1
Wow. You're so smart.
It's so amazing how much abandoned stations are hitting in New York City awesome job exploring the abandoned stations just don't get in trouble by the NYPD if they catch you down there I think it's illegal but it's amazing.
@12:00 at least you knew when the station was functional … not too long when tokens where $1.50
So these places are abandoned yet have power and the lights still work after al this time?
I remember thinking how the Canal Street station is such an amazing labyrinth of train tunnels, passageways… who knows how,any levels from street to the deepest tunnel…
Yeah is deep
that part (J-M line) is relatively shallow in parts. The 4-5-6 line is also very close to the street. The cross connects to connect to the lower platform for express trains is very deep (40 feet below the street).
@@monsterajr1 Which line is on the active side @3:00? I think you can see some of the old track on the other side of the wall from the N/Q line going towards the Manhattan bridge.
I used to work in lower Manhattan and used this station, this very platform, regularly. Very sad to see how dilapidated it has become. I’m sure the corresponding abandoned platform at Bowery, the next station north, is about the same.
When you think about how much work went into the construction of this station, mostly by immigrant labor in the 1910’s, it’s really a shame to see it all fall apart.
What people don't realize is that a lot of these laborers died during the construction of these stations
@@beaviskornholio2754 44 workers and civilians died in the construction of the original IRT line. That doesn’t count the number of people injured.
Actually it’s not. That platform is regularly used to shoot movies and tv shows. And gets regularly cleaned because of that.
@@Will_Bx_NYC_718 I was thinking about that, it was used in a few SVU episodes earlier on, and now they use the Bowery Station that is also use for tactical training.
Back when that line first opened it was extremely busy hence the double platforms at most stations. However in the intervening years, the line has seen ridership shift and also be serviced by other lines that opened. That's the reason the Canal street station was reconfigured to allow partial closure and the same for the Bowery stop. If you look carefully on the open part of the Canal JMZ platform you will see remnants of two other street exits to the northern end that would have opened up to where the Pagoda building is today. The part in the video where they go up a set of stairs next to an open pit used to be another entry with an escalator.
What kind of stalagmites are dropping fron the ceiling at 11.30 ?
Why do they even keep the lights on?
For the griffete artist
What does it smell like in there?
Why was it closed?
There used to be an entrance on the NE corner of Canal and Centre streets to access the Queens bound M. I remember the staircase leading to that brick token booth years ago.
Wow. I never seen this before. Is this the N and R line?
Amazing. Video had a very "backrooms" feel to it. Perhaps a bit too much attention to all the graffiti, but that's my only issue with it. Glad to see the sign explaining what trains were once involved in this section. I would be curious to know if anyone can answer, as I no longer live in NYC, what line is still operational on the other side of the wall that we see? And did you have to go through the hole to get from the active to abandoned section? Again, well done overall and thanks for sharing.
I always wonder why did they shut down the southbound side of the Nassau street line and only use the uptown side of the Nassau street line? It seemes they only use all 4 tracks from Chambers street on South
Decreased ridership and cost to keep a very lightly platform in good aesthetic state. Canal and Bowery were also notoriously sketchy back in the 90's - 00's so consolidating the people to one area vs spread out is also a safety issue.
What line was this for ???
Why was it abandoned? Do trains still travel on the far side track?
Cuz the Brown M Train don't go there no more for rush hour to Brooklyn which became the orange M Train that go to where the G Train used to go at and yes trains still on that track from Time to Time
@@DARTHBLUNT713 What you mean by "where the G train used to go at?"
@@kcmnewyorkcity the G Train used to go to Forest Hills-71st Avenue
What line was that station ?
Would’ve been more eerie if there was like an abandoned slant or something
Bro where is that i wanna go
In NYC
I know sometimes the MTA cleans those abandoned sides up but looking at another video I've seen of that station, it does look like someone was going at it graffiting the walls insanely. As for the closet and some of the stairwells, very well knowing there should be a door or exit that leads to the active side, the MTA likely puts anything they have to remove from the active side on the abandoned side. It's like if someone ended up dying, they will have to put the body bag in the storage closet until it gets picked up.. But i wouldn't be surprised if some of the other mess was related to homeless people at one point but seeing how the station must not have active heat on that side, they didn't wanna stay.
Would've been so much creepier if the power was out. Also not sure why they're still wasting power on an abandoned station.
Did they use to have an escalator to go up
wait if there abandoned why is the lights on btw i live london so i wouldnt know lol
$1.50 tokens, that's late 90's. I'm surprised they still have the lights on in there.
Been there before a looonnngggg time ago. But like, how did you NOT get caught? Apparently there’s motion sensors now? 🤨
Is there im not sure at all?
Would love to see an abandonded station like this. Shame about all the awful looking graffiti, would look much better without.
What are you talking about? The graffiti just makes It look much better. More abandoned and Apocalyptic
The graffiti provides the station with another history. I think it's beautiful and makes the station more rich. It tells another story
@@alanjuarez8660 Nah. Stations look better preserved, not vandalised.
graffiti is essential
@@lexijs no it isn’t
did u walk from bowery or jus go around from the end of the platform?
Glad y’all showing this
How do you get out 0:39
The MTA wastes so much energy leaving those lights on for no reason. Very Odd.
I think the danger it would create by turning them off could become more costly than that power bill.
why must we spray paint everywhere. so sad
Y’all got balls to go in them halls
y r the lites on?
When did those tracks were abandoned?
Why was this abandoned?
This is the best Canal Street video I have seen
12:17 Ominous sign
It definitely hits different now that the station is abandoned.
I like how the uploader warned the viewers not to visit places like this as if its some fallout 4 location, Sounds like an adventure to me
How do you access this?
*.... I THINK .. THEY USE A **#SUBMARINE** .. !! ( DO YOU THINK ) ....*
Thanks for this please make more videos they are awesome!
When i was a kids and with my mom this Canal St Platform was in use :)
This looks like the abandoned station of the J, Z, and M trains.
It is, the J and Z to Jamaica and the M to metropolitan ave
what line was this
What would you do if the lights went out. Then someone jumped out and grabbed that flashlight out of your hands? Just saying!
It's old?
Que mal que hagan vandalismo en lugar de un video de exploración urbana de calidad.
It’s funny because when you go up the emergency escalator towards the exit, you can hear those stupid toy robots and frogs they sell near by hahahaha lololol
1:20 Imagine Jakob Kessler watching this video after all these years hahaha
Yeah, this looks the setting for a scary movie.
Somehow I was expected to see some giant rats crawling around, but I guess they learn to avoid any and all light sources!
Reminds me of the movie Ghost when he sees his first Ghost in the subway.
9:27
"mm nypd can smp"
"Facts ong"😂😂😂
What train used to serve this? I forget.
Oh, J/Z 4:04
& the old M. Probably terminated there
Condemned: Criminal Origins
fire ass vidd 💯💯
Appreciate it 🔥
I remember this platform when I was younger.
What Line is this? The A? I hope not.
how do u get here?
What the purpose of graffitiing a wall if no one would see your graffiti artwork????
Anyway nice video
Serious L4D vibes
Привет из Россия! Как я люблю смотреть Нью Йорик метро тоннель подземный! По больше снимать видео друг!
Nice Find Buddy
Bless Up
*Many of the functioning stations look exactly the same.*
When Tokens were 1.50 I remember that.
This is some Jacob's Ladder ish right here, wild.
Truly sad to see it like this.