# NYC Underground **URL:** \ **Category:** New York\ **Created:** [November 5, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673 "2021-11-05T22:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 17
**Author:** ![ALC11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/alc11/32/81254_2.png) [@ALC11](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/ALC11)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/322 "2026-05-07T19:19:21Z")
The MTA is currently looking for contractors to undertake the much-needed renovation at the infamous Chambers Street. Such a renovation would be transformational, considering the reputation Chambers has as the worst station in the system. They ought to to Bowery next as that one is also in rough shape. > **[MTA Seeking Contractor To Refurbish Notorious Chambers Street J/Z Station -...](https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/05/07/overhaul-mta-seeking-contractor-to-refurbish-notorious-chambers-street-j-z-station)** > > Chambers of horrors, no more. ---
**Author:** ![stache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/stache/32/30186_2.png) [@stache](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/stache)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/323 "2026-05-08T13:20:17Z")
I really like this station. Call me crazy! ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/324 "2026-05-08T13:49:31Z")
Crazy Chambers was the jewel in the crown of the BMT. Needless to say it’s shocking it was allowed to get so bad. And under the Municipal Building of call places. I’d like to see something really interesting done with the closed platform. ---
**Author:** ![stache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/stache/32/30186_2.png) [@stache](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/stache)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/325 "2026-05-08T14:57:22Z")
This station is landmarked but alterations were done on the mezzanine level fairly recently which I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![ALC11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/alc11/32/81254_2.png) [@ALC11](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/ALC11)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/326 "2026-05-08T16:44:00Z")
The modifications were for ADA accessibility. I mean the areas they did do work in were cleaned up a bit but the whole place is still a mess. This renovation will correct that also enable the historic tilework to be fully restored. ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2026, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/327 "2026-05-14T13:20:46Z")
> **[Subway service changes: MTA adds more trips, shifts arrival times on four...](https://www.amny.com/news/subway-service-changes-2-3-4-5-lines-may-2026/)** > > There is a subway service shakeup coming for the four numbered lines that run through Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx next week, the MTA reminded riders on ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2026, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/328 "2026-05-15T14:15:20Z")
Today is the 85th anniversary of the day the last subway stations opened in the Bronx (on the Dyre Avenue line on May 15, 1941). > **[Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155776107498843&id=100064378553708)** ---
**Author:** ![ALC11](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/alc11/32/81254_2.png) [@ALC11](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/ALC11)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/329 "2026-05-16T06:53:22Z")
The LIRR has gone on strike and all service is suspended until further notice. [https://www.mta.info/article/lirr-strike-may-2026](https://www.mta.info/article/lirr-strike-may-2026) > **[3,500 Workers Walk Out as BLET Teamsters, Union Coalition Launch LIRR Strike](https://teamster.org/2026/05/3500-workers-walk-out-as-blet-teamsters-union-coalition-launch-lirr-strike/)** > > (NEW YORK) – Teamsters with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) at the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) have launched a strike alongside t ---
**Author:** ![stache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/stache/32/30186_2.png) [@stache](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/stache)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/330 "2026-05-16T13:35:07Z")
Maybe they can use this time to work on the fire damage. ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/331 "2026-05-16T14:40:42Z")
How long before Dump sticks his ugly orange nose in this and blames it on immigrants, DEI or “radical dems” or some nonsense? There’s nothing he won’t lie about or exploit. A true demagogue’s demagogue. ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/332 "2026-05-16T15:18:44Z")
His local gauletier has already weighed in; not sure if we’ll hear anything from the White House this weekend. It’s awkward because while LIRR employees are mostly MAGA, the GOP is staunchly anti-union. > **[Blakeman rips into Hochul over LIRR strike, says she ‘failed to do her job’ —...](https://nypost.com/2026/05/16/us-news/bruce-blakeman-rips-into-kathy-hochul-over-lirr-strike-says-gov-failed-to-do-her-job/)** > > Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman slammed Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday as “the worst governor in America” for failing to stop the Long Island Rail Road strike. ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/333 "2026-05-16T15:49:06Z")
> [@Waymond\_Womano](#): > > because while LIRR employees are mostly MAGA… Don’t read this as snark, but is there anything concrete that backs this claim up or is it just hearsay? ---
**Author:** ![stache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/stache/32/30186_2.png) [@stache](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/stache)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/334 "2026-05-17T13:28:14Z")
Certain unions are MAGA but I don’t know about this one. ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2026, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/335 "2026-05-17T16:29:27Z")
How behind the curve do you have to be to think that man and his party is beneficial in any way to your workers union? Goodlord. If true, it’s because it’s largely made up of Long Island soft bigots that line up ideologically with MAGAs’ reactionary ethno-nationalist social views NOT because they’re getting some sort of pro-labor benefit from the ghouls in this administration. ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 5:01am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/336 "2026-05-29T05:01:26Z")
> **[Subway Upgrades Roll Forward After 2-Year, $156M Delay From Trump Admin](https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/27/elevators-bronx-manhattan-subway-stations-trump-funding-mta/)** > > Five stations in The Bronx and Upper Manhattan are set to become accessible to people with mobility challenges after the MTA received the delayed funds. ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/337 "2026-05-29T18:21:02Z")
Second time this month Amtrak fire has caused meltdown at Pennsylvania Station. > **[MTA calls Amtrak tunnel repairs 'a chronic problem' as another fire snarls...](https://gothamist.com/news/early-morning-fire-complicates-penn-station-commutes-on-nj-transit-lirr-amtrak)** > > The fire broke out just outside the Hudson River tunnels and caused damage to overhead wire and track infrastructure. ---
**Author:** ![Nickfloyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/nickfloyo/32/173662_2.png) [@Nickfloyo](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Nickfloyo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/338 "2026-06-03T21:20:06Z")
> **[Nile Berry on Instagram: "The MTA is piloting 30-second audio ads in its...](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZIzE7HvwCV/?igsh=MTZrZ28wem1icmU3ZA==)** > > 189 likes, 17 comments - urbanexplained on June 3, 2026: "The MTA is piloting 30-second audio ads in its stations. > > But for what? Ads barely dent a $21 billion budget. > > The MTA says rider reaction decides whether they stay. So please join me in... ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/339 "2026-06-03T21:31:51Z")
As long as they cycle the ads and don’t let the same ones run too long to create conscious and subconscience stress inducing — and they’re not too annoying — I don’t see a problem with this. Unlike Soviet metros, it’s not like we can say the Subway is being commercialized. If anything, there used to be way more commercial advertisements in subway and elevated stations. And please no audio ads about infections between the anus and genitals. ---
**Author:** ![Waymond\_Womano](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/waymond_womano/32/7078_2.png) [@Waymond\_Womano](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Waymond_Womano)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/340 "2026-06-03T21:41:46Z")
First of all, that’s called the “taint.” No need to perversely describe where it is when the simple term will do. Second of all, which Soviet metros are commercialized? I don’t think the subways in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kyiv, Minsk, Baku, etc. have more ads in the stations or trains (including on train doors) than the typical European metro system. Or is there one in particular that is particularly bad? I would imagine the Dubai metro is the most commercialized of all since nearly every station name has been sold for naming rights like an NFL stadium, and as a result most metro stations have names that have no relation to their geographic locations. Third, getting back to the topic at hand, the vast majority of MTA passengers are wearing headphones or similar devices while commuting, so these audio ads in the NYC will mostly “fall on deaf ears.” ---
**Author:** ![NeverForgiveAction](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/neverforgiveaction/32/181835_2.png) [@NeverForgiveAction](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/NeverForgiveAction)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673/341 "2026-06-03T21:46:16Z")
> [@Waymond\_Womano](#): > > Second of all, which Soviet metros are commercialized? I don’t think the subways in Moscow, St Petersburg, Kyiv, Minsk, Baku, etc. have more ads in the stations or trains (including on train doors) than the typical European metro system. Or is there one in particular that is particularly bad? I would imagine the Dubai metro is the most commercialized of all since nearly every station name has been sold for naming rights like an NFL stadium, and as a result most metro stations have names that have no relation to their geographic locations. Maybe I just worded it funny. I’m saying that in comparison to the Soviet metros… which were designed as monuments to socialist ideals and thus were free of advertisements and visual commercial clutter. As for the taint ad, apparently you haven’t had the pleasure of being overexposed to Jardiance ads. [Previous page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673.md?page=16) [Next page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/nyc-underground/20673.md?page=18)