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Originally Posted by Bronxguyanese
Thanks this video is awesome. Thanks for the rep. I wish I can check out the abandoned subway station under yankee stadium.
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It's not "under" Yankee Stadium, and you can check it out any time you want to. The Anderson Avenue station was largely obliterated by the Major Deegan Expressway, but if you wander around at the south end of the avenue by Macombs Dam Park near the expressway, you can still find evidence for it.
Anderson Avenue was a station on the 9th Avenue el, by the way. You can see where that line turned off from Jerome Avenue. There's still a short stretch of the original structure standing, on 162 Street off Jerome.
There are several other abandoned stations around town. 91 Street on the 1 line, 18 Street on the 6 line. There's a lower level station at Roosevelt Avenue (E,F,R) that was going to be a terminal for the "Winfield spur," which would have provided service out to the Rockaways.
Go to the East Broadway station on the F line. At one end of the station you can see the ceiling set at an angle; that was where a proposed line would've turned off for a run into Brooklyn.
The middle track on the G line at Bedford/Nostrand was put there to facilitate a proposed line that would have crossed Brooklyn, then come up aboveground as an el and joined the existing M line out to Metropolitan Avenue.
Hey, just ask!
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