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I am obsessed with NYC history ...

To think GTA 4 added the el train in there game

I liked the whining sound that the older trains made when speeding up or slowing down. Those trains didn’t have fluorescent lights, bare bulbs and ceiling fans

I was born in 92 wayyyyy after. But it’s amazing what 149 used to be. The train above not underground. Thanks for sharing this is priceless and timeless. Love to everybody who lived during this golden era.

I remember hearing when I was a kid back in the 80's that when they had taken the El's away, the city was angry at Robert Moses!

You did a fantastic job to the Third Avenue El line SHUTTLE or 8 train Bronx memories in this video. How i remember the Hub as a little boy. Remember the R 12 cars when they were Red then the platinum mist & blue stripe. I remember The 156th Street station & WEST FORDHAM ROAD stations. I cry inside ever since it's closure & later tearing it down after 1973. 😭💔 Third Avenue is Dead & hot during the summers. What a shame it wasn't saved. 2023 was The anniversary of the 3rd Avenue lines closure. Wonderful pictures & rap music with it. 🎶

I was born in the 83. But don't have much memory .is that the 2 and 5 now

Im 72. The first 5 years of my life I lived in a small apartment building on 147th Street between Brook Ave and St. Anns. There was a bar on the corner and I remember being afraid of the drunks that I would see there. My elementary school was on that block and St. Mary's park was just up the block. Seems like 5 life times ago We then moved to the White plains Road/ Phelam Parkway area whwere my parents bought a small two family fully attached home on Holland Ave between Waring and Astor.. My Junior High School was right there P.S. 135 Frank D. Whalen

Really good, clear, quality pictures! I was born in the BX back in 60. How I do miss the 3rd ave line.

“Music” sucks…

Amo histórias

I wish they extend 8 trains to Brooklyn Bridge Via the Lexington Avenue subway so that when You can see R62A and Occasionally R142As and rebuild it instead of demolishing it

NOSTALGIA AT ITS BEST THE Bronx NYC

DANG if that rapping didn't sound like The Furious Five. "A Child is born with NO state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind..." Shakespeare, Dickens and Hugo together couldn't come up with THAT one!

superb slideshow 🍸

really? I'd always imagined robust growth required more the likes of els than those of trundling trams

I don’t remember the EL when it was active in Manhattan(I wasn’t born yet. And when it was torn down in 1955,I was much too young),but I do remember when it was active in the Bronx.

Miss those days

I was waiting for one pic so I can fully see how this line was back in the day , that shopping intersection with the pie shape building was all I needed to get the picture. Born in 89 from Harlem love seeing what I didn’t get to experience! Great work here!

Thanks for posting

Edited 3/10/23. I’m 61years old I lived in the bronx most of my life now living in manhattan for work I remember the 3rd avenue el, I lived on 169th street and 3rd avenue. From 1:14 to 1:25 is my old block the Claremont projects the first building on the left. BOOGIE DOWN FOR LIFE.

I Remember going with mom to Con Edison on 149!st.to pay the light bill,you had to go in Person to pay your bill.😀

Many of you dad wanted to know that why they removed this train line that from the seventies let me explain that was an accident that are over some student of our school right there he fell down and the train that well you know the rest and after that I well it was tragedy especially that there was no officers right there today every different location of train stopped of location location. When it goes. But you know what everyone does that was the worst time that are in New York City write the problems with the cigarettes with the needles and make everyone mess up their life and you already know that already

You took me back when you mentioned Alexander's on 149 Street. That's where my mom bought me my first pleather coat from when I was in junior high school.

Wooooow I'm sitting here tearing up in the eyes. I never knew about the El train. To see this is like crazy. I'm shocked, amazed, emotional and all the above right now this is crazy.

I to went too P S 55 in 1957 those were the days 👍🏻👏🏻good old days

I grew up on the Westchester Ave #6 line as a kid. I remember going to New Jersey on I-95 and going UNDER the 3rd Ave El. Then one day........it was gone. lol. To this day when i drive on the Cross Bronx Exprswy, 40 years later, i still look up for the El tracks. lol.

I went to the recruiting station at 149th Street but then enlisted at the one at Westchester Square back in the early 80s. Memories.

What was the name of that song

I know it well. I lived on 142 and Willis Ave. I worked at Kelly’s Furniture Store . Took the EL many times to go to Fordham Road

The (8) line

Cool to see. My grandparents grew up in the small Italian enclave around 150th and my grandpa would take the el to Fordham when he started attending on the GI bill.

from 1965-1969 i worked @ h. king & company a mens clothing store .it was located right under the el @ 149th & 3rd ave acroos the street from hearns dept store. those were the days

I lived on Washington and 163rd from 53 to 63. Used to ride it uptown to end and back again. I could hear every train that came into the station, paused for transfer, and then left. I hear the music of the El still. Sure do miss it. Thank you for your service.

I lived near the El. I remember when it went out of business. Lived between near Willis Ave and Brown Place. This was around 1951 or 1953. What memories. Went to PS43. I then went to Wilton JR High school then Grace Dodge High School. There were two Catholic hospitals St Joseph and StMary on Brook Avenue. Are there still there or demolished. We first moved to 137th street 1951 a long time ago. I was 11 yrs old. Later the changes made us move. I will never forget where I grew up. Today is not the same.

So sad, 20 years earlier it was cleaner, more crime free and safer. Now our Bronx has the poorest congressional district in the US. Oh, lets all rap about that~

I remember the elevated Trains. Grew up near there. Great Pictures.

Love the bronx born1972always😥

there was a blizzard in '92.... I had come back from the Navy and was back living on Vyse near 172nd.... had an old pair of skis and pushed myself onto Southern Blvd, just ahead of the first train to run on that el since before the snowfall.....pushed myself down the slight incline toward Freeman Street.... the trains rumble set off a snow avalanche that overtook me and went on..... very unique.... remember, no traffic, people still hunkered down.... thanks for posting your shots from 1970.... I have a 16mm of a ride on the 3rd avenue around 1960....

A lot of memory of this historic train in Bronx NYC.

I used to live by 4 Apache the Bronx. The old Precinct in Simpson and than move to Melrose and then to East 171st Street between college and Teller by Clement Park.. I love growing up in the Bronx so many good memories.. thank you for sharing..

Why did they tear it down? The Bx55, seemed impractical to me.

Hey man thanx alot for sharing ! That was cool 1 of those pics looked straight out of the movie The French Connection The chade scene underneath the raised tracks sounds like u had an exciting Childhood Thanx again

I lived and grew up along and rode the MANHATTAN 3rd Ave El countless times - in Manhattan & Bronx. In 1953 i started taking photos and color slides -- and I started a Facebook Site with my photos (B&W and color slides) called " THE LATE GREAT BRONX 3rd Ave. EL" -- so check my photos of the Bronx 3rd Ave El - link here - and click on the word PHOTOS on the menu list --- facebook.com/The-Late-Great-BRONX-3rd-Avenue-El-408052719793796/?modal=admin_todo_tour and you can comment on the photos. Its a PUBLIC site - no need to sign in to FB to see the photos. I lived and grew up along and rode the MANHATTAN 3rd Ave El countless times - in Manhattan & Bronx. Hope you enjoy my photos !

Great video! Used to work on 148 and 3rd. Right down the block from blimpys.

I grew up in the Bronx of the 60’s and 70’s. We used to go to Hearns where they had a junk table where everything was 4 cents. My mother would let me pick out something. I remember getting a comb. Those were our toys. We also went to Nedicks for frankfurters. That was such a long time ago.

Good job I like I was born and raised in 148th Street and Saint Ann's I would like to see pictures and remember the old days thank you

Omg the memories...love the Bronx, was born in 68 & left in 89 ......still go visit but it has changed. I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Awesome Cherishable Memories of the Ole-School Bronx where I too was born and raised.

Get rid of the rap and play some Classical Music