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Abandoned Stations
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Abandoned Stations
[Subway Stations in New York City]
<http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/>


by Joseph Brennan
Text, diagrams, photos copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Joseph Brennan
except as credited to others
The mark indicates pages with interesting updates in the past few months.


Website Table of Contents

entire stations

CITY HALL (IRT) | WORTH ST | 18 ST | 91 ST | MYRTLE AVE | COURT ST
SEDGWICK AVE | JEROME AVE | CORTLANDT ST

entire levels

CITY HALL (BMT) | NEVINS ST | 9 AVE | 42 ST | BERGEN ST | ROOSEVELT AVE

platforms

SOUTH FERRY and BOWLING GREEN | BROOKLYN BRIDGE | 14 ST | 96 ST
CHAMBERS ST | CANAL ST | BOWERY | DE KALB AVE
59 ST | LEXINGTON AVE (63 ST) | HOYT-SCHERMERHORN STS

uncompleted work

GRAND CENTRAL (SHUTTLE) | LEXINGTON AVE (BMT) | IND SECOND SYSTEM

Hudson and Manhattan

19 ST | 28 ST | HUDSON TERMINAL

trolleys

QUEENSBOROUGH BRIDGE TERMINAL | 38 ST (PARK AVE)
WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE TERMINAL | 167 ST (GRAND CONCOURSE)
KRESGE'S - MCCRORY'S (NEWARK) | NEWARK SUBWAY PLATFORMS

main line railroads

86 ST (PARK AVE) | HARLEM (125 ST) | EAST NEW YORK | WOODHAVEN
GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL Waldorf-Astoria platform

related things (more or less)

ELEVATED STATIONS | BRONX RAILROAD STATIONS
STEAM RAILROAD LAWS IN NEW YORK CITY
BEACH PNEUMATIC TRANSIT | FANTASY IN THE MOLE PEOPLE


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Please don't wander into non public parts of railroad tunnels. It is
against the law, and it is dangerous.


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Elevated Stations

<http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/elevated.html>


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This page is restricted to stations that were part of the New York subway
and elevated system and that were not underground. There are certainly
many more abandoned stations and station sites in the city, but that will
be a subject for other pages.

I drew up this list in 1994. Many of the listed stations have since been
destroyed.



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Manhattan


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155th Street stairways: DESTROYED
Stairways from the 155th St viaduct down to Douglass Boulevard (8th Ave),
which had offered access to the 155th St el station halfway between the
two streets, were closed as unsafe in the 1980's and were removed entirely
sometime in the late 1990's. They had the delicate cast iron detail
typical of Manhattan el station stairways. The station was in use from
1878 to 1957, but the viaduct is somewhat later than 1878.



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Brookyn


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Franklin Avenue: DESTROYED 1998
The remaining part of the Fulton St El's Franklin Ave station (1888) was
torn down in 1998. It had been listed here. Most of the station had been
removed in 1940 when the Fulton St El was closed. Remaining was the small
stationhouse (ticket office) building on the north side and a short piece
of the elevated structure showing the unusual design of the ironwork.

Dean Street: DESTROYED 1998
This station opened in 1907 was torn down in 1998 during renovation of the
Franklin Shuttle line. It had been closed in 1995 and will not be replaced
when the line is reopened in late 1999. It had side platforms and a brick
building under the tracks.

Misreported in the press in September 1995 as 117 years old, this
elevated-era station was closed for several reasons: very low patronage
(about 50 paying customers per day), closeness to Franklin Avenue station
(which has better train service), and physical deterioration. The wooden
platforms were nearly rotted through, part of the general lack of
maintenance on the whole Franklin shuttle line. The line here is on
embankment with light bridges over streets.




[Read more at the URL immediately above.]


Abandoned Stations
NYC Subway.org
<http://www.nycsubway.org/abandsta.html>



Myrtle Avenue (BMT Nassau St./Jamaica Line)
<http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?192:2081>


Previous: Flushing Avenue Next: Kosciuszko Street


Myrtle Avenue Station Opened 9/16/1888

The Myrtle Avenue station consists of three tracks, with two island
platforms. Above the in-use platforms, crossing at an angle, is another
platform formerly served by the Myrtle Avenue Elevated, which ran south of
here to Myrtle Ave. and Jay St, and north to Metropolitan Avenue. The
southern portion of the line was closed in 1969 and the upper level
station was abandoned.

The lower level mezzanine, along Broadway south of Myrtle, is one of the
oldest in the system and provides access to both platforms. The Broadway
mezzanine has stairs to the street on the northwest corner of the
intersection. A second mezzanine on Myrtle Avenue, south of Broadway, is
currently being rebuilt. In the past, this mezzanine had stairs from the
street on both sides (east and west) of Myrtle Avenue on the south side of
Broadway. It had one very long set of stairs that went directly up to the
Myrtle Avenue El station, and a passage/platform that went under and up to
both Jamaica line platforms.



Roosevelt Avenue Terminal Station (IND Queens Boulevard Line)
<http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?219:3401>


New York Transit Museum
<http://www.nycsubway.org/cars/nytm.html>


Forgotten New York: Subways and Trains
<http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/Subways%20homepage/subways.html>


Archive for the 'Abandoned Stations' Category
2nd Avenue Saga
<http://secondavenuesagas.com/category/abandoned-stations/>


From Across the Pond
Abandoned Lines and Railways
<http://www.urban75.org/railway/>


Canal St platform
<http://www.columbiauniversity.org/~brennan/abandoned/canal.html>


Transit Tunnels FAQ

Active transit tunnels are especially alluring sites to those who ride
through them every day, but abandoned tunnels once used by passenger or
freight trains hold a charm of their own.

<http://www.infiltration.org/transit.htm>



Friday, May 19, 2006
On this day: BBC Wikipedia Enc. Brit. NY Times Reference.com IMDB History
Channel Brainy History Daily Bleed On-This-Day How To
Abandoned Stations of New York
<http://seehere.blogspot.com/2006/05/abandoned-stations-of-new-york.html>



Is City Hall Worth $18.91?
<http://www.allcitynewyork.com/Manhattan.html>


September 7, 2003
The fabric of the city
Posted by Teresa at 10:15 PM * 42 comments
Making Light
<http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/003446.html>


CITY LORE;
The Timetable of Age Overtakes Stations
By BEN UPHAM
Published: November 12, 2000
New York Times
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=
9F02EFDE1538F931A25752C1A9669C8B63>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/6cxv9a>



Links to More Modern Ruins
<http://www.modern-ruins.com/links/index.html>


The Milk Business of the New York Central R.R.
By Charles W. Brainard
(Written about 1940. Resided at 105 Riverside Drive)
<http://russnelson.com/RWnO/milk-train.html>


City Hall (IRT East Side Line)
<http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/stations?5:979>



HoytSchermerhorn Streets (New York City Subway)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets (New York City Subway))
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Hoyt-Schermerhorn_Streets_(New_York_City_Subway)>


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<http://tinyurl.com/6ots76>



NYC Transit Forums > MTA New York City Transit > IRT Subway Forum
South Ferry To Be Abandoned!
<http://www.nyctransitforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=720>


Lost Destinations
Rants and Ramblings
<http://www.morethanthis.net/blog/archives/2004/02/29/000754.html>


Abandoned Places
Links Directory
<http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/links/Abandoned_Places.html>


Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'Abandoned Stations'
February 4, 2007
Gothamist
<http://gothamist.com/tags/Abandoned%20Stations>


Tracks of the New York City subway
by Peter J Dougherty
Publisher: [New York] : The Author, 2002.
Edition: 3rd ed


New York City Subway New York City Subway - Talk/gripe about
newyorkcitysubway
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/newyorkcitysubway/>


The New York subways
by Lesley A DuTemple
Publisher: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Co., 2003.
ISBN: 0822503786 9780822503781


The Five Boroughs
Brooklyn Public Library
<http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/
internet_links_detail.jsp?linklistpageid=602>


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<http://tinyurl.com/6pa2h8>



CITY LORE; The Timetable of Age Overtakes Stations
By BEN UPHAM
Published: November 12, 2000
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=
9F02EFDE1538F931A25752C1A9669C8B63&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss>


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<http://tinyurl.com/6ow4ek>


SIXTY-THREE years after the last trains slowed for their platforms, after
the last late commuters hurried through their handsome doorways, under
their elegant roofs and colorful tiled archways, a few abandoned stations
of the long-defunct Harlem branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad still cling to life in the Bronx. But they endure in a condition
that barely hints at their original architectural beauty.

The stations, completed in 1908, were the work of the renowned architect
Cass Gilbert (1859-1934), who designed them in a variety of styles so as
to make each station unique. But Gilbert, whose many credits include the
Woolworth Building, might be startled to learn that his stations were now
housing such activities as a gun club, a pizza parlor and an adult
entertainment establishment.

''They were widely admired stations that got the New Haven Railroad
excellent publicity,'' said Steven Flanders, who is an author of the book
''Cass Gilbert, Life and Work: Architect of the Public Domain,'' due next
year from W. W. Norton. ''And, as a result, he got the commission for the
monumental Union Station in New Haven.''

Writing in Architectural Record magazine the year they were finished, the
critic Montgomery Schuyler described the stations as ''great fun'' and
added, ''The architectural pilgrim who gives a whole day to the branch
will find himself not only repaid but rewarded.''




Northeast Corridor
By Peggy Darlington
Special thanks to members of the PRR Group on DSOP Lists (Some abandoned
station information)
New York Penn Station is discussed on its own page

<http://www.stationreporter.net/necl.htm>

Exiting the tunnel into New Jersey, the Northeast Corridor line is two
tracks between the portals and the new Secaucus Junction station
officially called the "Frank Lautenberg Rail Station," a
312,000-square-foot station which opened for full service December 15,
2003. This new station, visible from the New Jersey Turnpike, functions as
a transfer point between ten New Jersey Transit rail lines, with emphasis
on transfers to the Northeast Corridor, allowing those passengers from the
Main, Bergen, and Pascack Valley lines easier access to New York City and
points south. The Northeast Corridor level of this station has one island
platform, two wall platforms and four tracks. Based on track numbers (A,
B, 2 and 3 for the NECL Level and E, F, G, H for the lower level) it
appears that room is available for tracks C,D,1 and 4. In October, work
was begun on a $250 million interchange of the New Jersey Turnpike
designed especially to serve this rail station."



The Cincinnati Subway
128 pp/May 2003/Allen Singer/
Arcadia Publishing/
ISBN: 0738523143 paperback
<http://www.allensedge.com/cincinnatisubway.html>



Books, bibliographies, special items of interest
<http://people.reed.edu/~reyn/metroitems.html>



Sunday, January 30, 2005
On this day: BBC Wikipedia Enc. Brit. NY Times Reference.com IMDB History
Channel Brainy History Daily Bleed On-This-Day How To
Abandoned 2
<http://seehere.blogspot.com/2005/01/abandoned-2.html>



Daily departures from Union Station
Saint Louis
Saint Louis Public Library
<http://www.slpl.org/slpl/interests/article240118246.asp>

In 1889, the Terminal Railroad Association was formed to handle the
numerous railways entering and exiting the St. Louis area. Their goal was
to build a new Union Station, to serve the increased railroad traffic.



The Literature Network Forums
Mole People
<http://www.online-literature.com/forums/
blogs/viewblog.php?entry=2833&userid=34034>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/4aqns9>



New York Transit Museum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Transit_Museum>

Grand Central Station annexThe New York Transit Museum is a museum which
displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway and bus systems;
it is located in the unused Court Street subway station in Brooklyn
Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. There is a smaller satellite annex in
Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan.

Contents

1 The station
2 The Museum
3 Museum expansion
4 List of Train card in display
5 See also
6 External links



New York City Subway Photographs
<http://www.railfanwindow.com/gallery/>



Martisco Station Museum
<http://www.cnynrhs.org/Martisco.html>



The Chicago Tunnel Company Railroad
Chicago Freight Tunnel-Related Links
<http://users.ameritech.net/sigridaok/tunnel1b.html>


The agony, and the ecstasy, of New York's subway system
Salon
Notes from the Underground
<http://www.salon.com/april97/wanderlust/newyork970408.html>



Art in Ruin Links
<http://www.artinruins.com/links/beyond.php>



New York City In Full Effect
All about the five boroughs of New York City
<http://www.scribd.com/groups/view/34-new-york-city-in-full-effect>



Newark, New Jersey: The City Subway
<http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/transit/Newark/Subway/>



Making History - The Crystal Palace atmospheric railway
<http://www.capsu.org/library/documents/0040.html>



Urban Decay
Studies of relics of the modern era - Urban exploration
<http://www.object-craft.com.au/~andrewm/links/urbandecay.html>



February 5, 2007
A Visit to the City Hall Subway Station
Gothamist
<http://gothamist.com/2007/02/05/a_visit_to_the.php>



Underground History
Links and Books
<http://underground-history.co.uk/links.php>



Top: Recreation: Outdoors: Caving: Urban Exploration: North America:
United States: New York
DMOZ Open Directory Project
<http://www.dmoz.org/Recreation/Outdoors/Caving/
Urban_Exploration/North_America/United_States/New_York/>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/4a3uky>


New York underground : the anatomy of a city
by Julia Solis
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005.
ISBN: 0415950139 9780415950138



The man who loves trains
Dick Carpenter is hand-drawing his way across 1946 america. and he's
gaining a following
Boston College Magazine
<http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/winter_2004/ft_railroad.html>



New York City to Philadelphia via
New Jersey Transit and SEPTA
by Boaz Lev
Rail Nutter News
<http://railnutternews.home.att.net/NYCtoPhilly.html>



Northern New Jersey: Light Rail's Spectacular Comeback
Light Rail Progress January 2004
Light Rail Now
<http://www.lightrailnow.org/news/n_nj001.htm>



The Electric Egg Cream
Mole People
<http://electriceggcream.com/2007/10/04/mole-people/>



Wired New York - Forum
Subway Centennial
March 19, 2004
The Rumble That's Lasted for 100 Years
By RANDY KENNEDY
<http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4676>



Railroad Data.com : Specific Railroad Links
<http://www.railroaddata.com/rrlinks/Specific_Railroad/>



The subway libraries
by Elliot Douglas Felix; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of
Architecture.
2006.
Dissertation: Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Dept. of Architecture, 2006.


City Hall NYC subway
<http://youtube.com/watch?v=ciUawXlMVxE&feature=related>
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22T9nTRG87Q&NR=1>


Home > 6 (New York Subway)
<http://www.masterliness.com/a/6.Lexington.Avenue.
Pelham.Bay.Local.and.Local.Express.htm>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/3k4opo>



City of Destiny
abandoned buildings, architecture, art, bicycling, books, cheap
restaurants, Chicago, the CTA, feminism, kitsch, urbanism, etc.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Discovering the abandoned CTA
<http://cityofdestiny.blogspot.com/
2008/04/discovering-abandoned-cta.html>


A shorter URL for the above link:


<http://tinyurl.com/4mrros>



Grand Central-42nd Street (New York City Subway)
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(Redirected from 42nd Street-Grand Central (New York City Subway))
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Metro Wiki
<http://metro.wikia.com/wiki/
42nd_Street-Grand_Central_(New_York_City_Subway)>


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<http://tinyurl.com/4hmauh>



New York Transit Museum
Med Library.org
<http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/New_York_Transit_Museum>



Review: [untitled]
Carl W. Condit
Reviewed work(s): The Railway Station: A Social History by Jeffrey
Richards; John M. MacKenzie
Isis, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Mar., 1987), pp. 118-119
(review consists of 2 pages)


New York City: Subways Cities New York City
<http://www.ltn.net/T/Idioma/English/Business/
Transportation_and_Logistics/
Urban_Transport/Transit_Systems/Subways/Cities/New_York_City/>


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<http://tinyurl.com/5tnjk4>



New Jersey Transit Trackmap - Release (v4)
<http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=45978>



New York City Subway
The Language of Trains - Dictionary and Research Guide
<http://www.123exp-trains.com/t/18664151486/>



List of New York City Subway transfers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_transfers>

Find out more about navigating Wikipedia and finding information Jump to:
navigation, search
The following free transfers exist between the lines of the New York City
Subway. A number of these were created on July 1, 1948, when fares were
increased from five to ten cents.[1] Some transfers between subway
stations and bus routes existed until 1996, when the MetroCard was
introduced.[citation needed]

The following transfers, which have existed since the lines opened, are
not detailed below:

West Fourth Street Washington Square (1940) Seventh Avenue (1940) West
Eighth StreetNew York Aquarium (1920; became inter-division in 1954) 50th
Street (1933) 145th Street (1933) 149th StreetGrand Concourse (1917)
Coney IslandStillwell Avenue (1919; became inter-division in 1954) Ditmas
Avenue (1954-1975) HoytSchermerhorn Street (1936) Jamaica
CenterParsons/Archer (1988) Jay StreetBorough Hall (1936) Lexington
Avenue63rd Street (not completed) Myrtle Avenue (1889) MyrtleWyckoff
Avenues (1928) New Utrecht Avenue/62nd Street (1916) Prospect Park
(1920) Sutphin BoulevardArcher AvenueJFK Airport (1988)


Contents

1 Manhattan
1.1 Lower Manhattan (below 14th Street)
1.2 Midtown and Upper Manhattan
2 Bronx
3 Brooklyn
4 Queens
5 References



Subway Archives
Torch from 116th Street/Columbia University IRT Station
A Guy in New York
<http://aguyinnewyork.com/archives/moving_around/subway/>



Railroad History, Societies & Railway Preservation -
RailServe.com
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=184&url=
http%3A%2F%2Fwww.railserve.com%2FHistorical%
2FNorth_America%2FNortheast%2F&ei=GflLSPPMPI_
MeYeNyd0E&usg=AFQjCNEZQIoki0WCi5_n0T7E_
afvZfGGuA&sig2=wH9VdFBw7pddzs2VOSHXlw>


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Speeding New York's Buses
by Mia Goldberg
January 2008
Gotham Gazette
<http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/transportation/20080116/16/2407>



Underneath New York
by Harry Granick
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 1991.
Edition: Fordham University Press ed
ISBN: 0823213129 9780823213122



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