abandoned sedgwick avenue (IRT Nnith Avenue lin) jerome station platform by thecapturelife
Sedgwick Avenue was an elevated, ground level and underground station on the Bronx extension of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line.[2] This station was built to connect to the New York & Putnam Railroad passenger trains that terminated there instead of the former 155th Street terminal and New York Central Railroad Hudson Division trains that stopped at the new (1918) platforms at this location. This station remained in use by the Polo Grounds Shuttle until 1958.[3]
This station was built extending from the tunnel entrance to Jerome Avenue on the side of a cliff on a steel structure spanning the tracks of Metro-North's Hudson Line that connected to the existing Putnam Bridge, which had been built for the New York City and Northern Railroad. The station street entrance and mezzanine was above the tracks on Sedgwick Avenue. The west end of the platforms on the steel structure were constructed of wood. The east end of the concrete platforms extended into the tunnel for about a car length. A connecting passageway and stairways from the west end of the northbound platform led to the platforms on the New York Central Hudson Division tracks to permit transfers to that division's trains.[4] The station site, in 2010, has ruins of the platforms and the track-bed into the tunnel entrance on Sedgwick Avenue.
The tunnel from Sedgwick Avenue to Anderson-Jerome Avenues was built to NYC Elevated Railway standards. Those standards specified the clearance between the tracks and the sides of the tunnel only allowed for the "El" type open third rail instead of the covered third rail in use on the IRT Subway. The standard distance from the center of the track to the center of the El type open third rail-head is a few inches shorter than the distance to the subway type covered third rail-head. This incompatibility prevented the line from being used in the future by standard IRT Subway equipment, and brought about the line's demise instead of being linked to the IRT Lenox Avenue Line at 148th St in Manhattan, which had been proposed by the New York City Board of Transportation in 1940. A footbridge to West 161st Street remains.
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Great job on this video! I went exploring down there when I was young back in the 80s. There used to be a car down there, looks like they dragged it out.
I played there as a kid we use to walk from the Sedgwick ave side to the Jerome Anderson ave side before it was sealed that was in the early 60"s
This video is definitely one for the archives. Great job!
This is the best view I have ever seen of this station. You guys were very detailed with this giving me a way better understanding of how it worked and what it looked like back when it was working
Great video mate! This place looks so creepy 😅
It’s a pity these spaces can’t be used for another purpose...
These 2 platform station was both was shut down in 1957 yet the that tunnel lead u to the 2nd one u filmed. That’s why Jerome Ave & E 162 by Anderson Ave street & block has a big hill cause there’s a tunnel under there which connects to these both places u recorded
I would love to go back there
Why is it even outside? This is one of the first Abandoned Station I have seen placed outside.
The platform near Yankee Stadium could've been converted into a park. Like with The High Line.
Once upon a time a long time ago that they used to be a train station that nobody knows that a of people could erase the love history because it is not a history is never was but many people wanted to discover of a Sunday that into the blueprints that the old map station into the subway that some of them. They never heard it some of them that they never been there some of them that they're trying to find it some of them there that try to explore or even how to say that this cover but is very sad today right now everything has been blocked everything be erased everything trespassing but many people wanted to discover explorers subway tunnels and train station
In the 70's and 80's they were trying to extend the 3 train to the Bronx which would go from 148th St to Woodlawn. The MTA did not extend it because the third rails were not compatible to the 60's third rails.
Imagine if spray paint was never invented
The tunnel was closed in the late 90s.ive lived there over 35 years
I didn't know NYC had the name "Sedgwick" before the hotel from "Ghostbusters" had it.
This is under the Deegan & the ramp going to the old parking garage where the old stadium use to be?
Are those Hudson Line diesels I hear passing in the first location? \m/
If they only had kept these extra lines...
Do you think the tunel still ther front Sedgwick to Jerome maybe no complete but son parts?
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