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Video: Check Out NoLIta's Abandoned Subway Station
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Garth Johnston
Published Aug 3, 2011
Modified Aug 4, 2011
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As if we didn't already love urban explorer Steve Duncan (Undercity) enough, here he comes with another sweet video (filmed by Andrew Wonder) showing off a part of New York City we're generally too wussy to explore ourselves. Where'd he go today? Oh, the unused half of a subway station at Spring Street between Bowery and Elizabeth.
As for how he ends up exiting from the Second Avenue F stop at the end, they don't really show you but we suspect that Bowery Boogie is right and he wandered over the Chrystie Street Connection (the only parts of the original Second Avenue Subway plan to be completed and put to use). You can read more about the Bowery station, here. Suddenly we have an urge to spelunking!
Finally, the video is from a nifty new website called MyBlockNYC which puts user videos onto an easy to use map interface.
[via Runnin' Scared]
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