20 years from now when we have face mask body mods and magnet vests forcing people 6 feet apart we will be wondering what the hell is happening in this video.
My father was a Conductor during this time. They don’t talk about the time when my pop was hit over the head with a 2X4 at Gun Hill Road Station. I was a little kid and I was scared to death when I found out. Thankfully, he made it to retirement..love and miss you poppa..Conductor #81000 Rest In Peace daddy.
I respect that you respect your dad. But give us that good mans name. He was not a number. The fact that he even stayed at that job after such a happening shows he was a family man.
May your father Rest In Peace and thankful for his service. I too worked in that hell hole subway from 1990-1998 in various positions over the years (Cleaner, Track Worker, Conductor, Motorman) and after several occasions of being threatened and/or assaulted I resigned moving on to the Railroads. As bad as some people think the subway system is now, it’s vastly different and better than it’s crazy and scary days from the 80’s & 90’s.
@@iamvinny Many lines have newer cars. E, F, R, M, J, Z, and the C and A but they're on pause due to some teething issues. The 2, 4, 5 have cars from around the 2000s that are fairly modern too. There are actually a good amount of more modern trains and it's not hard to find them.
You're buggin. There's wifi, digital maps, electronic boards that show the following stations, recorded voice lines for every stop (with clear audio), USB charging stations, new benches that allows for more seating, and most stations are kept clean (at least on the platforms). Clearly didn't grow up riding the MTA
+mercedesbenzc2 euro6 I had no idea about these new train lines. I live in the Bronx and the 6 has always been the best. The T seem like it would be better
It's amazing how much has not really changed in 25 years. Sure some stations are cleaner and some lines have new trains. But on others it's still exactly the same.
Love how he says, “buses take forever”. Here we are decades later and Staten Island STILL doesn’t have a real subway train and are surrounded with buses
The ejector room is where accumulated water is pumped out into the municipal sewer system. The NY subway was sump pumps running 24 hours a day to keep the underground tunnels and stations from flooding. That's what the ejector room does.
Besides the crime, nothing else mentioned here is creepy about the system. I dig the abandoned stations night club idea. They can barricade the edge of the platform so that no one gets hit by trains or fall onto the tracks. Or they can fill up the stations with art like they did on the abandoned Myrtle Ave platform north from Dekalb.
+kathartic713 My line is the B/Q and 'Masstransiscope' (the artwork on the abondoned Myrtle Ave. platform between DeKalb Ave. and the Manhattan Bridge) is one of the few highlights of my daily commute.
That’s literally like all of New York. New Yorkers always think New York has the best everything in the world and is the best place in the world. But then they get a passport and actually travel and they open their eyes. New York is cool but is not the best place in the entire world, that’s too much an arrogant statement when there is literally a whole world out there.
@Stranded NYer Sweetie, New York and America are not my home country 🤣🤣. I’ve actually lived in Asia and every continent on this planet except for Antarctica and now I live in New York for reasons out of my control...and I stand by what the fuck I said. New Yorkers are the loudest most prideful people about New York. They are always screaming about how New York is the best place in the world so I quite frankly just don’t believe that you’ve never heard people say that, but you live there. I hear it every day!!!! Especially when they realize I’m not from New York and they ask me how I like it, and I make the mistake of being honest!! They get so fucking mad “New York is the best place in the world, you’re never gonna find anywhere as good as New York, you’re just a hater, this place never sleeps, you’ll never find food as good as here blah blah blah” all while giving me death glares. I experienced this from New Yorkers even before moving to New York. I think maybe you’re not the one living in reality. Sorry not all of us find your cat sized rats charming. And we are all aware that Japan’s Subway system has a problem with sexual assault, Japan in general has that problem and their prison sentences for even murder are weak af. But New York in general has a pretty bad rape and violent crime problem too, Japan is overall much safer than New York. Nice try though!
@Stranded NYer Did you know in New York, sexual assault is such a problem, that it’s not safe to even take an Uber or ride share app?? They’re in the process of developing a female only type of ride share so that women don’t have to keep getting sexually assaulted in taxis, Uber’s etc in your perfect New York. What are your feelings on that since you feel so strongly about female only trains in New York? Please, enlighten us.
@Stranded NYer Also if you could read, you would see that I never even brought up the Japanese subway system in the first place. If you’re such a New Yorker, pull the fuck up bitch. Let’s meet, and you can show me what a Native New Yorker you are.
That’s the NYC I fell in love with 32 years ago. I have fond memories of reading Ellis Henican in New York Newsday, the best daily newspaper ever. I miss it like I miss 1980s Manhattan.
missingmochiguman The song is called 'Downtown Train', off his 1985 album 'Rain Dogs'. It would later be covered by Rod Stewart and become a top 40 hit.
Lol. This video was so dumb but it did give me a blast to the past. I have been riding the trains by myself since I was about 10. Well before 1990. And I am still here to tell the story. Lol. There is nothing creepy about this video except the music.
+bd10232003 Agreed. We were just trying to get from point A to point B. Yeah, there were weirdos and drunks, but they have them everywhere. What I find creepy are very quiet, lonely neighborhoods where you can't find a single soul walking the street. I found it very creepy.
NYC Subway hasn't been the one with the best reputation especially in the 70s and 80s, but for a Parisian like me whom traveled often to NYC, it's certainly safer than parts of the Paris Metro system.
No actually not weird at all , that's called *normal af* . I'd give my left nut for life to be like that again and society not act like a buncha zombies.
Yall are acting like they werent reading news papers or listening to cassete players, if they had phones they would be just as glued to them as we are same shit different smell
"buses take forever" He's right you know. I took the bus 37 years ago. I'm here to tell you that I am still on the same bus. It hasn't even moved an inch.
Yep exactly as dirty and shitty as I remember the subway every day when I went to work in Manhattan. It's gotten worse from what I've been hearing. So glad I FLED the rotten Apple when I did over 20 years ago....still can't believe I lived in that shit-hole for most of my life!
NYC subway service in 1990: No signal malfunctions, no sick passengers, no track fires.... none of the excuses that they come up with a million times a day in the present.
This Is the 90’s. Nothing better then the 80’s or 70’s. Remember the movie “the warriors”? Ya,....that’s Nyc and it’s subways back then. If ur a nyer and never noticed these things... Ur blind and deaf.
I rode the subways in the 90s alone most of the time and I never felt like it was creepy. Sure - after midnight it was kinda sorta creepy … I guess … but not creepy in a dangerous vibe way at all.
@@saptarshichatterjee36 Absolutely not, NYC never shut down the subway...they had very very low ridership in March/April homeless rode them all day and slept in them.
Aaron Davis wow! In my city the metro and the local train everything was shut down. You literally had no where to go if you didn’t have private transport.
This has been my ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan 5 days a week since 1980. I started driving vs the trains daily for the past 7 years or so, couldn’t do it no more. People are disgusting and flat out rude, inconveniencing others to make it more convenient for them. Fuck ‘em all.
Tbh our Metro ain't half bad. Just wish it would reach out to the West Island ffs. Sick of paying for parking when I go DT or having to take the shitty 211 that NEVER shows up on time and ALWAYS has a detour. West Islanders get trapped downtown because getting on to the 20 is always a hassle. Always something closed. I actually hate this city...
I had to take the train to school back then. I got robbed by a homeless man. Robbed by older school kids. It was hell. As soon as I could, I enlisted in the Army to get out of the city. Never looked back. 🫡
What's weird is how much of this accurately applies to today's MTA, 30 years later (before COVID of course). It was an antique then, and even more an antique now.
It started in the 60s. With all that crime they were able to make a bunch of movies of NY city! Like the classic Midnight cowboy 1969, Death wish (1974) and Taxi Driver 1976)
It's true. I was 12 years old in 89. But I thought and reasoned like I was much older. and me and my friends stole everything you could think of. Burglarized stores late at night. Brooklyn was our playground. We felt unstoppable. Damn I miss those days :)
I got mugged and stabbed on the R Line and all the people around me did was walk over me, one guy wanted to take my sneakers....Never rode the train without being strapped again.
That's Very Sad. I thought most people would be trying to get you help and/or Call 911.. If someone sees someone actually being assaulted espeiciallly with a WEapon like a Knife, most People would run away (unless they are heavily trained in the Martial Arts or are packing which is basically banned in NewYokr), but I think most people would be trying to get the Victim &/or calling 911. I'm a Native New Yorker still living here
Jamal Nasir lmao who the fuck cares bout a concealed carry? It’s survival, that bs law doesn’t apply when you fear for your life especially in a city where you can’t carry. And when people say I’m strapped they mean they’re packing.
That is the story of New Yorkers until today, rush hours and more now this virus Covid19 with masks and distances and disinfectants...the story of working people...no more fun anymore...
Amy Crabtree you know in actuality there’s people who die on either tracks or homeless people on stations. Staff just sometimes put them in some rooms in a station for later when it’s more convenient for them to be sent out of the stations
@@Tibbers12 I randomly put on Tom Waits' Night on Earth theme and my friend (who had never heard of him) said it sounded like Cookie Monster singing opera, lol.
Must be in a desperate mind to take the the subway line where you’ll find strange people and derange new crimes that’s defines the subway but hey it’s faster
back then people did not have cell phones to record everything so you could just murder someone and and go away into the crowd at the next station before anyone can even call the cops
I always love watching these old 90s documentaries. There's just something about these, from my childhood especially in the late 90s since I was born in '95, that just makes me feel very good and nostalgic...
I never got to experience the 90's since I wasen't alive at the time but the fuzziness of the videos, the type of technology coming out, the style of clothing, and the "in your face" attitude always jumped out to me. Honestly, the whole 90's culture itself really excites me.
I am 52 years old and I've lived in New York City my entire life. In 1990 I was working and riding the subways every day. Other than Ellis Henican's hair I find none of this creepy at all.
Look at him walking around , touching everything, and being next to people
Especially that homeless guy, you know he had covid for sure
Look at him not wahsing his hands every 20 min, lucky dude
20 years from now when we have face mask body mods and magnet vests forcing people 6 feet apart we will be wondering what the hell is happening in this video.
those were the days
I never expected looking at crowds would make me so viscerally uncomfortable
Imagine being homeless or a panhandler and you see this guy describing you and following you with a camera
Lol I know
Skari monst wait how you know about the soulless lol: so true
No need to follow they everywhere...
Imagine being a homeless panhandler.
😂
1:24 I got chills at "63 vice presidents, what do they all do? No one knows..."
Rubbing their balls in quarters and sending them to schools as change for school snack purchases. Look it up!
They’re basically the presidents understudy/sidekick 😂😂
Making more money than you or I. This is why the trains are filthy and they should all be arrested
They should hire 6 more to make things work.
@Michael Jurek I know, right? They're messed up.
My father was a Conductor during this time. They don’t talk about the time when my pop was hit over the head with a 2X4 at Gun Hill Road Station. I was a little kid and I was scared to death when I found out. Thankfully, he made it to retirement..love and miss you poppa..Conductor #81000 Rest In Peace daddy.
I respect that you respect your dad.
But give us that good mans name. He was not a number.
The fact that he even stayed at that job after such a happening shows he was a family man.
May your father Rest In Peace and thankful for his service. I too worked in that hell hole subway from 1990-1998 in various positions over the years (Cleaner, Track Worker, Conductor, Motorman) and after several occasions of being threatened and/or assaulted I resigned moving on to the Railroads. As bad as some people think the subway system is now, it’s vastly different and better than it’s crazy and scary days from the 80’s & 90’s.
Jesus, that's terrible. NYC was no joke in the '70s-mid '90s.
Love you remember this worlds only temporary and you will meet him again !
Why would they talk about that incident? I’m so confused
Why does everyone suddenly have this on their recommendations
Man it’s weird
Nobody knows
Corona
@@mabcap124 I know 👀
That’s creepy lol
The creepy part is that the subway looks still the same
Vince V The posters are probably new, but everything else, including stations, corridors, trains, etc has not changed.
Cause they are
They’re the same, only in a few lines there’s new trains
😂😂😂
@@iamvinny Many lines have newer cars. E, F, R, M, J, Z, and the C and A but they're on pause due to some teething issues. The 2, 4, 5 have cars from around the 2000s that are fairly modern too. There are actually a good amount of more modern trains and it's not hard to find them.
I feel so dirty watching this during Covid.
alyxibiteu51 if you can’t figure that out lol yikes
alyxibiteu51 get a grip abu lol
I'm calling in to work and quitting first thing. Repulsive video needs to be banned ffs
Just how Bill Gates and his cronies want you to feel
@Monster RR trump 2020 baby!!!
Almost never changed or updated considering all the money it brings in. They did clean up graffiti.
It's too old to be updated. They're trying to do it now but they're just going to screw it up.
Rich Sullivan imagine being a upset that a city is safer than before
@@jcinfan Now it's going down the tubes again thanks to Comrade DeBlasio.
Rich Sullivan i live in WH,i can walk to the bodega without having to worry compared to 10 years ago. You’re probably from Jersey Rich.
You're buggin. There's wifi, digital maps, electronic boards that show the following stations, recorded voice lines for every stop (with clear audio), USB charging stations, new benches that allows for more seating, and most stations are kept clean (at least on the platforms). Clearly didn't grow up riding the MTA
Lol that 4, 5, 6 line is still crowded today
Yep, until the T train will be finished, maybe
grand central still crowded too
*****
Yep and the W is replacing Q in queens i think
+mercedesbenzc2 euro6 I had no idea about these new train lines. I live in the Bronx and the 6 has always been the best. The T seem like it would be better
Lin Chavez the shit head part wasn't necessary. I do find it odd that they are just now making a second avenue train line.
A perfect New York "fugeddaboudit!" at 0:45
lol
Ha
Honestly think he was faking it.
Ghost Murmur me too
Lmao
It's amazing how much has not really changed in 25 years. Sure some stations are cleaner and some lines have new trains. But on others it's still exactly the same.
where is the rest of the video
I believe this segment was from The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour.
Joseph Davis just like the system,they got us all enslaved,nothing will change if the people don't change. that's why I got out of this video.
True
You must’ve never rode the train in 90 to say that nothing has changed
Love how he says, “buses take forever”.
Here we are decades later and Staten Island STILL doesn’t have a real subway train and are surrounded with buses
Are the buses slow
1am and I am watching an old, creepy documentary about subway
Respect
I'll tell you what is even more "creepy": that reporter Ellis Henican looks exactly the same today as he did in 1990. Vampire anyone?
ellis henican was 31 in 1990...he looks like he's 45 here
All those years riding the subway really take their toll on the human body.
@@RockandrollNegro lol
Forget about it
filmidioten lol.
Two questions you never want to be asked are:
Yo what size are those? And Yo you know what time it is?
Almighty Sosa _ True that lol
Why is that? I mean I have an idea what you’re talking about but just want to know specifically
lmfaooooooo bro said why is that but for real though
"yo you got the time"
"nah b my phone is dead"
Almighty Sosa Not if you have a blicky on you then I got the time and size
I've only been asked what size my shoes are once, and I said "Not yours"
The ejector room is where accumulated water is pumped out into the municipal sewer system. The NY subway was sump pumps running 24 hours a day to keep the underground tunnels and stations from flooding. That's what the ejector room does.
omg that song during the homeless person montage
hana bee damn your are really cute. Wanna go out sometime
I saw her first!
@Chil Pollins Correct. Tom Waits' "downtown train."
Lol
Pretty dope huh?!?
I lived in NYC in 1990. It didn't seem creepy, just the best way to get around.
0:46 I like how he say “forget about it”, like Mafia
It was a joke
Domenic Cercone why would u respond to an old year comment
@@Mr.watashi just forget about it
Makes me wanna watch hey arnold
Besides the crime, nothing else mentioned here is creepy about the system. I dig the abandoned stations night club idea. They can barricade the edge of the platform so that no one gets hit by trains or fall onto the tracks. Or they can fill up the stations with art like they did on the abandoned Myrtle Ave platform north from Dekalb.
+kathartic713 My line is the B/Q and 'Masstransiscope' (the artwork on the abondoned Myrtle Ave. platform between DeKalb Ave. and the Manhattan Bridge) is one of the few highlights of my daily commute.
Drunk people jumping barriers is gonna be a HUGE liability problem. It can't be done.
Just make heavy duty barriers from floor to ceiling
4:34 Ghost station night clubs... wow. That was an actual idea. 90's NYC didn't give a fuck!
Actually still sounds pretty awesome. "Industrial" vibe. Just find a way to keep the drunks off the tracks.
When there's something strange!
In the neighborhood...
Who you gonna call?
Ghost busters!
I used to thin NY had the greatest train system in the world, then I traveled to Japan and it made NYC metro seem like a third world system.
That’s literally like all of New York. New Yorkers always think New York has the best everything in the world and is the best place in the world. But then they get a passport and actually travel and they open their eyes. New York is cool but is not the best place in the entire world, that’s too much an arrogant statement when there is literally a whole world out there.
@@creolechicken2.080 thats not true. Most of us think the mta is terrible
@Stranded NYer Sweetie, New York and America are not my home country 🤣🤣. I’ve actually lived in Asia and every continent on this planet except for Antarctica and now I live in New York for reasons out of my control...and I stand by what the fuck I said. New Yorkers are the loudest most prideful people about New York. They are always screaming about how New York is the best place in the world so I quite frankly just don’t believe that you’ve never heard people say that, but you live there. I hear it every day!!!! Especially when they realize I’m not from New York and they ask me how I like it, and I make the mistake of being honest!! They get so fucking mad “New York is the best place in the world, you’re never gonna find anywhere as good as New York, you’re just a hater, this place never sleeps, you’ll never find food as good as here blah blah blah” all while giving me death glares. I experienced this from New Yorkers even before moving to New York. I think maybe you’re not the one living in reality. Sorry not all of us find your cat sized rats charming. And we are all aware that Japan’s Subway system has a problem with sexual assault, Japan in general has that problem and their prison sentences for even murder are weak af. But New York in general has a pretty bad rape and violent crime problem too, Japan is overall much safer than New York. Nice try though!
@Stranded NYer Did you know in New York, sexual assault is such a problem, that it’s not safe to even take an Uber or ride share app?? They’re in the process of developing a female only type of ride share so that women don’t have to keep getting sexually assaulted in taxis, Uber’s etc in your perfect New York. What are your feelings on that since you feel so strongly about female only trains in New York? Please, enlighten us.
@Stranded NYer Also if you could read, you would see that I never even brought up the Japanese subway system in the first place. If you’re such a New Yorker, pull the fuck up bitch. Let’s meet, and you can show me what a Native New Yorker you are.
That’s the NYC I fell in love with 32 years ago. I have fond memories of reading Ellis Henican in New York Newsday, the best daily newspaper ever. I miss it like I miss 1980s Manhattan.
That just sounds terrible
Thank god it's gone
That music at 2:23 is just so ridiculous, I love it.
It's Tom Waits.
Anyone care to share the song's name?
missingmochiguman The song is called 'Downtown Train', off his 1985 album 'Rain Dogs'. It would later be covered by Rod Stewart and become a top 40 hit.
Matt Jarvie
Thanks for the response!
hahahahaha
The fact still remains true for the E train. Plenty of homeless esp late night if you to Jamaica. Less homeless? The 7 :D
Thank God I live near 52nd Lincoln ave!
The memories!!!🙌 This was the year i first started cutting school and roaming the subway... Scary sometimes but mostly thrilling
Lol. This video was so dumb but it did give me a blast to the past. I have been riding the trains by myself since I was about 10. Well before 1990. And I am still here to tell the story. Lol. There is nothing creepy about this video except the music.
facts all there was was graffiti and I'll ride it to point a to point b
+bd10232003 Agreed. We were just trying to get from point A to point B. Yeah, there were weirdos and drunks, but they have them everywhere. What I find creepy are very quiet, lonely neighborhoods where you can't find a single soul walking the street. I found it very creepy.
+bklynAtrain Truth! People in the streets meant safety in numbers.
bd10232003 Exactly.
I would say, that depends where your from.
NYC Subway hasn't been the one with the best reputation especially in the 70s and 80s, but for a Parisian like me whom traveled often to NYC, it's certainly safer than parts of the Paris Metro system.
I love this video brought me back to “Those days” reminded me of a “good day New York” segment
4:02 *Isn't it weird to Not see a Single person with their face in their phone??*
Ulysses Dougherty No shit?
That's normal. Nowadays is weird
No actually not weird at all , that's called *normal af* . I'd give my left nut for life to be like that again and society not act like a buncha zombies.
@@fawkkyutuu8851 facts
Yall are acting like they werent reading news papers or listening to cassete players, if they had phones they would be just as glued to them as we are same shit different smell
Nothing changed. I bet the chain is still there.
Worst hours to commute are 7:30 - 9:30, and 3:00 - 5:30
Wow this is a great video. I love the retro vibe, however a lot of the stations today still look like they did in the 90s lmao.
I remember in the 70s when some turnstiles where still made out of wood, such as 137th and Broadway.
30+ years later and the subway system hasn't changed, from the homeless people to the filth to the sardine trains at rush hour.
2:24 WTF LOL What a voice!
I lived in NYC 30 years 1980-2010 . Never had many problems in the subway
"buses take forever"
He's right you know. I took the bus 37 years ago. I'm here to tell you that I am still on the same bus. It hasn't even moved an inch.
Yep exactly as dirty and shitty as I remember the subway every day when I went to work in Manhattan. It's gotten worse from what I've been hearing. So glad I FLED the rotten Apple when I did over 20 years ago....still can't believe I lived in that shit-hole for most of my life!
I used to sleep on the E train for a couple months. He’s not lying about the warmth at all that shit really saved us last winter
Yo his voice lowkey relaxing
Never thought the nyc subway would intrigue me until this was in my recommended
man i miss those days me chillin in the train people of all kind doing they own thing. Good ol nyc. Covids a bitch man : - ((
Back when NYC had crime.
James Johnson As if NYC doesn't have crime today?
兆し AGP In 1990 there were over 2000 murders in NYC. This year there will be a couple hundred. So yes, NYC doesn't have crime today relative to 1990.
John Grant
Thanks John.
Thank God those days are over. JESUS Saves ' John 3:16
Your Mom Bible Prophecy in the middle east. Wars and rumors of war.
With google maps I'm a certified MTA expert. When a confused tourist comes up to me the first thing I do is take out my phone.
NYC subway service in 1990: No signal malfunctions, no sick passengers, no track fires.... none of the excuses that they come up with a million times a day in the present.
they should call the ghostbusters
I didn't expect to hear Tom Waits here. A pleasant surprise.
i go to school in nyc (from MA and here for the summer) and watching this video makes me miss the disgusting underground tunnels :'(
0:46 best "fuggedaboutit" I ever heard !
2020 and it’s still just as bad way to go DeBlasio in a few short years you ve managed to set things back 30 years. What a putz
Wtf I got recommended this video, but this dude would've gotten so many tickets.
Kids back in 2019 you used to be able to take the subway and talk to people without a mask..it was a very risky time
The directorship of this film is flipping amazing lolmao
This Is the 90’s. Nothing better then the 80’s or 70’s. Remember the movie “the warriors”? Ya,....that’s Nyc and it’s subways back then. If ur a nyer and never noticed these things... Ur blind and deaf.
Ellis Henican is the creepy frosting on the filthy NYC subway system.
I rode the subways in the 90s alone most of the time and I never felt like it was creepy. Sure - after midnight it was kinda sorta creepy … I guess … but not creepy in a dangerous vibe way at all.
Excellent videos well done,
this is great... with the sound off
3:44 I've been there in that station at that time numerous times and it is hard to breathe in there.
Everything went smooth after this until the 2020 pandemic, then the trains went back to the homeless for a month
Didn't the trains stop during the lockdown?
@@saptarshichatterjee36 Absolutely not, NYC never shut down the subway...they had very very low ridership in March/April homeless rode them all day and slept in them.
Aaron Davis wow! In my city the metro and the local train everything was shut down. You literally had no where to go if you didn’t have private transport.
I’m from here. N it’s really that serious. Nothing has changed really.
Other than the phones and people not giving a crap
This has been my ride from Brooklyn to Manhattan 5 days a week since 1980. I started driving vs the trains daily for the past 7 years or so, couldn’t do it no more. People are disgusting and flat out rude, inconveniencing others to make it more convenient for them. Fuck ‘em all.
Montreal be like: we got the best metro system in the whole
World!
Also subway in Montreal: water pipe broke so no subway for the day
Tbh our Metro ain't half bad. Just wish it would reach out to the West Island ffs. Sick of paying for parking when I go DT or having to take the shitty 211 that NEVER shows up on time and ALWAYS has a detour.
West Islanders get trapped downtown because getting on to the 20 is always a hassle. Always something closed.
I actually hate this city...
Those people dont know how good they have it.
Im waiting for michael scott to come and tell me someone is using a cardboard box🤣
I just got finished watching how inbred royals are and now I’m here I should’ve been asleep it’s 4:57 in the morning😭
“Have you ever been in a subway bathroom?” But in Jonathan Frakes’ voice from Beyond Belief
Why is this video in my feed lol?
"How did I get here " - Odesza
2:45 looks like I spotted a drug mule !!👀😂😂
Is this a Hey Arnold episode. So Dramatic. LOL
it's only creepy if you are not a New Yorker.
He went during the busy safe hour
I had to take the train to school back then. I got robbed by a homeless man. Robbed by older school kids. It was hell. As soon as I could, I enlisted in the Army to get out of the city. Never looked back. 🫡
If this didn’t have ‘creepy’ in the title I wouldn’t have been think anything about it while watching this. Seemed pretty interesting
please correct this my brain died trying to understand
I like trains
Yeah, all those interesting panhandlers
Facts
If this didn't have 'creepy' in the title I wouldn't have thought about it while watching. It seems pretty interesting.*
what am I doing with my life
You are dying, that's what you are doing with your life, you and everybody else.
Des i was thinking the same, sad world
You looking into the past and our shitty subways systems.
Rumor has it... Des is still wondering what she's doing with her life
haha.. damn same xO
you know whats MORE CREEPY ?? the same old fking train is being used till this day. the seats and trains looks exactly the same.
The transit authority needs money to par for the 63 vice presidents.
grrrindz they legit still use R32 trains from 1964 today
Ew
@@eagbplayz851 they are now cause of the r179, thses railfanners are mad happy
Andy A I have a Transit channel (XcelsiorFan4964) And I really wanna catch an R32
What's weird is how much of this accurately applies to today's MTA, 30 years later (before COVID of course). It was an antique then, and even more an antique now.
Love your videos man!
The world never really changes no matter how much you think
ep3 well it does change, but many things always stay the same
it looks exactly the same
I said this too in all 30 years absolutely nothing has changed
Some of you may be surprised, but 1989-1990 was actually the most dangerous point in NYC history. Crack was at its peak and crime was out of control!!
It started in the 60s. With all that crime they were able to make a bunch of movies of NY city! Like the classic Midnight cowboy 1969, Death wish (1974) and Taxi Driver 1976)
+TDTam11 FIVE TIMES as many murders! It was nuts.
I thought crime rates dropped in the 1990's...
It's true. I was 12 years old in 89. But I thought and reasoned like I was much older. and me and my friends stole everything you could think of. Burglarized stores late at night. Brooklyn was our playground. We felt unstoppable. Damn I miss those days :)
JustinLodes
So your happy about being a criminal?
It's crazy how these people aren't social distancing
Ate you a liberal?
@@gonkdroidfromlegostarwarst2942 wait what does being a liberal have anything to do with social distancing??
@@gonkdroidfromlegostarwarst2942 I eat liberals for breakfast
Tf is this comment reply section?
@@sparky9943 pretty sure they're on something man
Who else is travelling to the 1990's and watching this before going?
I wish.
Fuck you
If you could time travel what would you want to go on the subway oh, you should use that technology to buy Apple stock.
@@givememore4free It's for the railfans.
@@blakemcnamara9105 lollllllll
"forgetaboutitit" is the most newyork thing I've heard in my life
that’s 80’s-90’s New York when the Italian Mafia ruled the streets. Now it’s “deadass” - born & raised New Yorker since the 90’s
I lol’ed, it was so natural too
I laughed when he said that, it just made him sound like he was joking
Deadass
Anthony deadass is said everywhere...
I got mugged and stabbed on the R Line and all the people around me did was walk over me, one guy wanted to take my sneakers....Never rode the train without being strapped again.
That's Very Sad. I thought most people would be trying to get you help and/or Call 911.. If someone sees someone actually being assaulted espeiciallly with a WEapon like a Knife, most People would run away (unless they are heavily trained in the Martial Arts or are packing which is basically banned in NewYokr), but I think most people would be trying to get the Victim &/or calling 911. I'm a Native New Yorker still living here
Rob Dickerson wow
strapped with what? bombs? cause a concealed carry permit is nearly impossible to get in NYC
my nigga just carry a blade wit u. What I been doing since moving to Newark
Jamal Nasir lmao who the fuck cares bout a concealed carry? It’s survival, that bs law doesn’t apply when you fear for your life especially in a city where you can’t carry.
And when people say I’m strapped they mean they’re packing.
They tried to so hard to make a story, but really all they did is make me laugh.
I laughed so hard
Ur the type of person that makes everything worse even bad videos
That is the story of New Yorkers until today, rush hours and more now this virus Covid19 with masks and distances and disinfectants...the story of working people...no more fun anymore...
Amy Crabtree you know in actuality there’s people who die on either tracks or homeless people on stations. Staff just sometimes put them in some rooms in a station for later when it’s more convenient for them to be sent out of the stations
So do I make you laugh? Do I amuse you? Funny how?
Why the fuck am I watching this
Cos it was meant to be creepy, but It wasn't...
Because you are BORED to DEATH!!!!!
"What DO they all do? No one knows..."
+peppermint23
lmao
looool
+peppermint23 they all do creepy like in the 90s and go to the ghosts in the ejector rooms XD 😄😄😄
What about the stink of the NYC Subway trains.
Watch 'Dark Days'
I've lived in NYC for 9 years and I've never gone to a subway bathroom. And I never will....
I’ve been living here since 94 and I have never even seen the bathroom
I've lived here my entire life (22 yrs), and I only just saw a bathroom a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn't use it though.
The only bathrooms in the entire system that are worth using are at Times Square, mainly because they are manned by an employee that controls access.
@@WakkoKakko and the bathtoom from canal street is good
Pussy
I watched this video, where is my wallet?
I saw the dude that grabbed it, he was in the video
I’ll help you find it for $10
i lold
where is my virginity
These posts are fucking hilarious 😂
2:27 is that cookie monster singing?
That's the great Tom Waits, but now I'll always hear Cookie Monster.
@Jonathan Sakks C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me
Legendary TOM WAITS
@@Tibbers12 I randomly put on Tom Waits' Night on Earth theme and my friend (who had never heard of him) said it sounded like Cookie Monster singing opera, lol.
No
Not including 9/11, the year 1990 had the most homicides in NYC history.
I heard about an incidence in long island when there was a war inside a cinema. I wonder if it was true
9/11 was in 01
@@lenama1234567890 yes. yes it was.
Ghassan jenainaty explain
@M Johnson doesn't make sense to include it if the comment said in 1990
"What do they all do? No one knows"
Sounds about right.
Was a little disappointed that he didn't keep rhyming after his first two lines 0:21 - 0:27
...And he could have rhymed limousines with Queens
Roses are red, violets are blue
To get home by bus takes an hour or two
Augusto's discount helicopter rides Be ready to lie to avoid a crime
woulda made the rest of the video a helluvolot more epic
Must be in a desperate mind to take the the subway line where you’ll find strange people and derange new crimes that’s defines the subway but hey it’s faster
I struggle to see what exactly the point of this video even was.
Maybe it was to give an overview of the New York City Subway?
To show people what a judgmental prick this guy is.
Idk youtubers nowadays will make a video about anything
i don’t think this guy was a youtuber
I agreee
wouldve been funny if he got robbed during the filming..
he actually did lol
He'll avoid filming 2;00 - 4;00
@Carpet Hooligan lmao
@Carpet Hooligan Are you kidding?
He wouldn’t laugh
Dude had some nerve to stand right in front of the turnstile
Ikr
And stand at the door talking to the camera while getting off the train
"you walk past the sign that sends shivers down your spine" lmaoo
I know right, I just won't be able to sleep tonight thinking of the EJECTOR ROOM lol
1990, a simplier time when people werent as cynical as they are now
back then people did not have cell phones to record everything so you could just murder someone and and go away into the crowd at the next station before anyone can even call the cops
playboipoop 😂
Its a sewage ejector pump station FFS. they have then in almost every city state and town
I always love watching these old 90s documentaries. There's just something about these, from my childhood especially in the late 90s since I was born in '95, that just makes me feel very good and nostalgic...
I was born in 89 and I agree.
We're old now.
Yup nostolgic
I never got to experience the 90's since I wasen't alive at the time but the fuzziness of the videos, the type of technology coming out, the style of clothing, and the "in your face" attitude always jumped out to me. Honestly, the whole 90's culture itself really excites me.
I am 52 years old and I've lived in New York City my entire life. In 1990 I was working and riding the subways every day. Other than Ellis Henican's hair I find none of this creepy at all.
Word it's only creepy to non New Yorkers... just another day in the Big Apple
The only thing I would find creepy is a bathroom that’s actually open for once.
@@goliathtigerfishes 😅
People find old stuff scary, its always been that way for some reason
@@goliathtigerfishes have you ever seen Maniac? ;)
As a New Yorker I can’t even conceive a bathroom in the subway, other than those little corners at the end of each station
Shay no wayy, I’ve never seen a single subway bathroom in the 16 years I’ve lived in nyc
@@Momo-bb2fn You've never been to Times Square station?
Undecided more times than I can count, I’ve never seen one
@@Momo-bb2fn There's bathrooms right next to the music store. It's probably the only ones in the system that get cleaned.
New stations have bathrooms. Hudson yards.
No Metrocards yet, no credit or debit card transactions. Cash only at the booth, buy a token that was it!
NO WONDER OUT DEBT HAS CLIMBED TO HELL
DEMOCRATS ARE THE WINNING ASSHOLES
Simpler times...
Apparently the tech for implanted microchips are here but I would rather a debit card any day. Implanted microchips feel too intrusive to me.
Patriotis I see that happening in 12 years in 2030