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[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

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Here is one of the entrances to the "Bee-Em-Tee's" Broad Street station that Your's Truly would use during rough weather days; the NYSE building where I worked from 1979 through 2004 is adjacent on the right............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?53383

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["B.M.T. LINES"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here, indeed, is an eerie scene at the BMT's "BOWERY" station; here we have the closed-off entrance to the long-abandoned mezzanine.

It's easy to picture ol' Indiana, trusty bullwhip in hand, mounting these grimy, time-worn stairs, on yet another expedition, albeit an urban one.........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?109095

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["BOWERY"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Indeed a rare artifact from a past civilization, this long-abandoned, time-worn booth in the closed mezzanine at the "BOWERY" station stands in mute testimony to a long-lost era.......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?109096

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["SAVE TIME! BUY EXTRA TOKENS TODAY!"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

If any a "Noo Yawk" subway station should have been associated with Indiana Jones, it would HAVE to be the original "Chamber Of Horrors" (BMT Chambers Street)

This once-grand and opulent station, indeed, would make for one awesome set for a new "Indy" flick, "Indiana Jones And The CHAMBERS of Horrors"........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1412

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1413

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1411

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?66998

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?146307

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?146330

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?108996

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["J"] ["M"] ["Z"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

More eerie views at the BMT "BOWERY" station, recalling another age........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?146219

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?136603

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?109098

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TO STREET"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Sneak preview of the sets used for the upcoming Indiana Jones flick, "INDIANA JONES AND THE CAVERNS OF DOOM"........

(interestingly, this long-abandoned station also "doubled" as "59th Street" in "CROCODILE DUNDEE", 1986)*

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?128796

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?128802

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?112209

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?40110

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?159787

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?128804

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

*(One entrance to the BMT's Chambers Street station (see following link) was also briefly seen in "CROCODILE DUNDEE"):

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?36265

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["CULVER SHUTTLE"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"TERROR CHAMBERS"...........

https://forgotten-ny.com/2012/04/back-in-chambers/

["SVBWAY"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

No longer in existence, the old lower level IND platform at 42nd Street (PABT) was, for decades, yet another "station" where a certain whip crackin' Mr. Indiana Jones would have indeed sought perilous, high-adreneline adventure!

Once used by rush-hour trains from Queens (until the 1970s), it also served "sports specials" throughout the years, and, in fact, was last used in 1981 by the now-defunct specials to Aqueduct Racetrack............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?771

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?772

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?773

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?20200

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TO UPTOWN & QUEENS TRAINS"]

[W.B. Fishbowl]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

W.B.:

Here are a few vintage scenes from 179th Street............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?5231

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1853

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?3044

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24572

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["F"}

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Mention should also be made of the "Eye-En-Dee's" Roosevelt Avenue Terminal station; in essence, a station that never served its intended purpose...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?45694

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?93117

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?93116

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?93118

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["ROOSEVELT"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

Here's an interesting, detailed page on the IND Bergen Street station's abandoned lower level...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/IND_Crosstown_Line_#Bergen_Street

And, a few photos............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?148093

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2608

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?24620

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["TO EXPRESS TRAINS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

For Your's Truly, there is just something "uneasy" about vast IND mezzanines with no wall ads (Church Avenue)...............

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?47441

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?47442
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Church Avenue, 1986; note that not only are there ads on the walls, but also, the old incandescent lighting is still in use......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?47447

(courtesy: nycsubway.org

["INDEPENDENT SUBWAY SYSTEM"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

"Arnine" swan song (Church Avenue, 1976).......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?2049

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["GG QUEENS-FOREST HILLS"]

[NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629]

The sharp-eyed person with an interest in subway history would do well to notice the ceiling over the southbound platform at the IND station at 2nd Avenue.

This is evidence of the provision for the 2nd Avenue Subway (recall the IND's "Second System Plan" of 1929)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39586

Nostalgia...........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4889

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?1901

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?594

(courtesy: nycsubway.org)

["D"]