Somethings have remained exactly the same 30 years later, other things now look like an alternate universe.
I never found it creepy. Only the yuppies and transplants did
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 3, 2020 1:37 AM |
That video was a meaningless waste of time to make and to watch
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 3, 2020 1:47 AM |
NYC born and raised here. One just needed to have their wits about them. The reporter in the video at R2 may have been right about the afternoon having crime because of out of school teens, but it was the scariest after midnight, between 1-5. If you had just missed a train, it was not unusual to wait 30-60 minutes for the next one. Also, God forbid you got stuck behind the garbage train (stopped for several minutes at each stop to pick up trash), or the money train (stopped for several minutes at each stop to pick up money and deliver tokens) or a service train (doing track or signal repairs). Several times it had taken me over 2 hours to get home after leaving a club or concert .
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 3, 2020 1:51 AM |
Are there still any 'ghost stations' in NY?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 3, 2020 1:55 AM |
Most ghost stations still exist, [r4]. There isn't a good enough reason to get rid of them.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 3, 2020 6:04 PM |
I remember when they first got air conditioning on the subways. The graffiti was Everywhere. The cars were old. I'm sure the subway of the 90's was not as bad as the subway in the 60's
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 3, 2020 6:16 PM |
The style became boring after they got rid of the graffiti, like early to mid1980s. That gentrification took away its character (and art!) and led to the sanitization that followed.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 1, 2020 4:56 AM |
I went on the New York subway four years ago on a trip and was kinda shocked how gross it is, compared to the London Tube or the underground in Barcelona or many other cities I've been in. I can see why people would find it creepy, and if it was even worse in the 90s..!
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 1, 2020 5:00 AM |
[quote]NYC born and raised here. One just needed to have their wits about them. The reporter in the video at [R2] may have been right about the afternoon having crime because of out of school teens, but it was the scariest after midnight, between 1-5. If you had just missed a train, it was not unusual to wait 30-60 minutes for the next one.
r3, a friend of mine who lived in the East Village when Alphabet City was at its worst used to say the scariest thing was getting OFF the subway after midnight. She said she would poke her head out like a groundhog, assess the situation, and then run home as fast as she could.
I miss traveling to New York. In the last few years I've never felt unsafe riding the subway late at night, because there's always a lot of people around.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 1, 2020 5:01 AM |