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[PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened… |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015 
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Posted by priya12 on Sat Nov 28 22:59:21 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. Could your photo be of any worse quality? |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 00:02:19 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. It's better than nothing, but dude, what happened? |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sun Nov 29 06:21:35 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. Where is that? That looks like a mezzanine that still has incandescent lighting. |
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Posted by HART BUS on Sun Nov 29 08:36:46 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by 3-9 on Sun Nov 29 06:21:35 2015. My uneducated guess is 74th Street/Roosevelt Upper. |
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Posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Nov 29 09:24:26 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by HART BUS on Sun Nov 29 08:36:46 2015. AND YOU WOULD BE WRONG.I,M GUESSING ITS THE PASSAGE BETWEEN 34ST TO 42ND ST.6TH AVE. |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Nov 29 09:47:56 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Nov 29 09:24:26 2015. YUP, that is my guess, since I have been through there many times.ROAR |
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Posted by Handbrake on Sun Nov 29 11:51:44 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Nov 29 09:47:56 2015. It's not the passageway between 34th & 42nd on the 6th Avenue line. If it were, it would be littered with the carcasses of dismantled token/change both's, and other NYCT trash and with less illumination.The closed off station area at Roosevelt Avenue contains MoW offices and quarters along a long hallway. Looks like a station rehab'd location. Wild guess, IND station closed passageway at Nostrand Avenue towards Bedford Avenue |
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Posted by AlM on Sun Nov 29 12:05:01 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. Compare to this picture.Slight differences, but it looks like the same sign on the left hand door. |
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Posted by Dj Hammers on Sun Nov 29 12:15:40 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Handbrake on Sun Nov 29 11:51:44 2015. This is not the closed passageway at Nostrand to Bedford Av. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 12:30:11 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Handbrake on Sun Nov 29 11:51:44 2015. Guys, there's a neighborhood map shown in the photo!!!!! |
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Posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 12:56:54 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 12:30:11 2015. Which appears to show midtown Manhattan and Central Park -- so it's the 6th Ave. passageway. |
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Posted by Handbrake on Sun Nov 29 12:57:45 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. This video may shed some light on the mystery. If this is the 6th Avenue passageway, the photo must have been taken from the 42nd Street station end because there is a significant drop in elevation on the 34th street end. If so, must have cleaned up the place, but then, a prominent room containing control equipment roon situated on the west wall of the passageway near 38th Street is not in view from 40th street end of the mezz.http://secondavenuesagas.com/2011/07/11/video-of-the-day-inside-the-6th-ave-ind-passageway/ |
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Posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 12:58:45 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by AlM on Sun Nov 29 12:05:01 2015. Yes, it is. See my other post replying to Terrapin pointing out the neighborhood map in the original picture. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. They need to reopen this (6th Ave. passageway) and rent out space to shops and eateries. It would be a great amenity and a moneymaker for the MTA. |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 13:33:03 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015. Are you going on the Billy trip? |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Sun Nov 29 13:53:20 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 00:02:19 2015. I had gotten off a train at 42nd Street, near the 40th Street end. I looked toward the 40th Street end and saw the door leading into the passage open as seen in my photo. I was trying to be discreet about taking the picture, because there was a guy in a safety vest nearby. |
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Posted by R36 #9346 on Sun Nov 29 13:55:59 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by HART BUS on Sun Nov 29 08:36:46 2015. Why would a neighborhood map showing Central Park and Midtown be displayed at a station in Jackson Heights? |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 14:00:14 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sun Nov 29 13:53:20 2015. I understand. COMPLETELY. |
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Posted by 3-9 on Sun Nov 29 14:40:36 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015. Only if it can attract the foot traffic, and in order for that to even begin happening, they need to (re)open many stairs up to the street. Even then, the best times would be during inclement weather. |
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Posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 14:55:20 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by 3-9 on Sun Nov 29 14:40:36 2015. If it had an attractive mix of amenities, some cool artwork, musical and other events, and marketing, it would work. |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Nov 29 15:01:22 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Handbrake on Sun Nov 29 11:51:44 2015. Door Says "Equipment and Control Offices. I guess that *is* where you put stuff like that. So maybe they clean it up a bit. Those old fossils could not stay there forever. Maybe they will re open it. It is as good a place as any for muggings and rapes. Now they can hide some Isistaani warriors in there. |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Sun Nov 29 15:11:49 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. Wow, what a gigantic Equipment and Material Control Office! Now seeing that nobody works in there, I am now enabled to explain more fully why the subway doesn't always look as nice as we'd like. :) |
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Posted by FarRock on Sun Nov 29 15:28:30 2015, in response to [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by R36 #9346 on Sat Nov 28 22:52:27 2015. 40 Street & 6 Avenue |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Sun Nov 29 15:55:45 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 14:55:20 2015. Are you going on the Billy S train in an hour? |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sun Nov 29 21:56:04 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015. So what is it currently used for? The sign on the door says "Equipment & Material Control Office", but it certainly doesn't look like an "office". Is that just a fancy way of saying "storage room"?[The second message from the OP, R36 #9346, makes it clear that this is indeed the passage from the 42nd St. station (40th St.) to the 34th St. station (35th St.) under 6th Ave.] |
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Posted by Dyre Dan on Sun Nov 29 22:15:06 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by AlM on Sun Nov 29 12:05:01 2015. The picture you linked to is the 35th St. end, while the picture that started this thread is the 40th St. end. The doors look similar, but one end of the passage is level and has pillars in it, while the other appears to slope upward, and has no pillars. I'm wondering, though: is the right half of north entrance to the passage normally covered only by the gate seen in the picture here, or is there a solid door that is simply not visible in the picture because it is folded back behind the tiled wall? If there is no solid door there, then the passage would always be visible to some extent, even if normally unlit. But why would there be both a solid door and a gate? (Obviously, I haven't been to that location recently.) |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Nov 29 22:54:25 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015. iawtp.when open, it was just plain convenient for either station, to exit at various points along 6th ave., and of course to avoid inclement weather. If the Gimbels passsageway were also reopened, those coming from Penn station, who worked on 6th ave. would be able to avoid bad weather completely. When I worked on 6th ave. and took the LIRR in, it was always a pain in the neck walk from 7th, to 6h on rainy days, abd during the winter months. As for security, more closed circuit TV's and available police. And if cost is a problem, why not do some research on other cities' mega concourses underground, or on those long airport passageways, and find out how others do it cost effectively. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Mon Nov 30 07:34:28 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by Broadway Lion on Sun Nov 29 15:01:22 2015. If crime ever gets going again (I hope it does NOT), the Dey Street Passageway, being outside of fare control, is a good candidate for becoming the nightmare the 6th Ave passage was. |
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Posted by MainR3664 on Mon Nov 30 07:51:55 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by AlM on Sun Nov 29 12:05:01 2015. Yeah, same place. I followed the link to the video on YouTube. Dimly lit like that, it would've been hellish place. I'd never want my mother or my wife to walk through it. I'd be hesitant myself. |
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Posted by HART BUS on Mon Nov 30 10:31:34 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by TUNNELRAT on Sun Nov 29 09:24:26 2015. Thanks Steve---Happy Holidays to you and Cupcakes ! |
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Posted by N6 Limited on Mon Nov 30 12:25:01 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by italianstallion on Sun Nov 29 13:00:35 2015. They could have made money converting it into Self-storage units, haha. |
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Posted by TUNNELRAT on Mon Nov 30 16:59:39 2015, in response to Re: [PHOTO]: The Chamber of Secrets Has Been Opened…, posted by HART BUS on Mon Nov 30 10:31:34 2015. same to you. |
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