Wall Street Station

"Steve in Manhattan" (blogenfreude01)
10/18/2015 at 15:30 • Filed to: None

We looked at an apartment near this subway station a few weeks ago. This is a kiosk on the platform. It’s difficult to see, but there’s a ledger, an old-style computer monitor, an intercom, and a broom, among other things. Everything is covered with grime. This station was closed for months after 9/11 - it appears as though the MTA just decided not to clean it up. Creepy.

DISCUSSION (22)

Cherry_man1 > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 15:39

I wonder what’s in the Ledger?

jkm7680 > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 15:41

Pretty cool, looks like they just forgot it existed.

Sam > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 15:45

When I was in NYC, we took that station to get somewhere. (I think it was to NYU) During the weekday, it’s eerily empty.

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 15:48

Is that the Broadway and Wall station?

Steve in Manhattan > Cherry_man1
10/18/2015 at 15:48

Surely not a train schedule, because there barely is one .... Every year it gets more expensive - and slower, and more crowded, and more unreliable.

crowmolly > Cherry_man1
10/18/2015 at 15:53

9/10/01: Man, I love Kazaa. I can download all of my favorite Dido and Destiny’s Child songs for free! I can’t wait until my vacation to Paris. Can’t forget to bring full sized shampoo and hair gel in my carry-on just in case they don’t have what I need in France. You know, people used to think the French were rude but I think their attitudes towards the USA are changing. I think George W. Bush is really helping international relations now that he’s president. I think he will go down in history as one of our best diplomats.

Steve in Manhattan > Biggus Dickus (RevsBro)
10/18/2015 at 15:57

At William . Two short blocks to Broadway.

Fun fact - the building we were looking at (decided against it) has an attached restaurant, and if you buy an apartment, free breakfast 5 days a week. How great would that have been?

FazeRacer > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 16:02

Hah, that’s like the bus system in the city I grew up in. And they would wonder why ridership was down every year. Ha.

ranwhenparked > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 16:51

Man, I would have gotten sooo fat.

Steve in Manhattan > ranwhenparked
10/18/2015 at 17:00

And it looks like a fairly high-end place, so how could you say no?

ranwhenparked > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 17:23

I guess you found a way, though.

Steve in Manhattan > ranwhenparked
10/18/2015 at 17:26

A couple things: 1) living rooms are too small (newly renovated units), 2) if there’s another Sandy, we’re sure to get evacuated downtown, 3) we’d really like to stay on the Upper West Side (and well above sea level).

ranwhenparked > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 17:38

All perfectly valid reasons. Free breakfast every day would be cool though.

Steve in Manhattan > ranwhenparked
10/18/2015 at 17:50

Staying above 14th Street offers lots of benefits, including the electricity probabably staying on during a major storm.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 18:39

Go back and say “throw is free weekend evening meals and we’ll take it”.

Biggus Dickus (RevsBro) > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 18:47

I’d abuse that.

Steve in Manhattan > Svend
10/18/2015 at 18:51

Seriously - I would have gone for the apartment had she decided thumbs up. But LR too small, she says, so it’s back to the ol’ drawing board.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 19:00

It makes for a quiet life to listen to SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed).

Steve in Manhattan > Svend
10/18/2015 at 19:39

As I have often said - I lose the battles and the war. Because if she’s not happy, I’m in for it.

Svend > Steve in Manhattan
10/18/2015 at 19:47

So true fella.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Steve in Manhattan
10/19/2015 at 04:03

can you get more photos of it ?

curious to see the photo from other end.

Steve in Manhattan > pip bip - choose Corrour
10/19/2015 at 13:06

Haven’t been down there since then, and no plans to go. But if I wind up down there, I’ll post something.