@Amfleet25124 posted:New York Subways from 1983 to 1991
Dug deep through the photo album vaults last night looking for these photos that I remembered taking with a good old fashioned 110 Camera so I’m going to share them with you. In chronological order:
4.17.83 – View of the 161 Street-Yankees Stadium station from the Yankee Stadium left field upper deck after the game. People getting ready to board the southbound #4 train which featuring the all white paint job to fight graffiti. The giveaway promotion for this game against the Blue Jays was "Billy's Back T-Shirt Day". I was one of the last folks to leave the stadium as I was running around taking post game stadium photos everywhere, LOL
6.26.83 - View of the Corona Yards and the US Tennis Center from the upper deck of Shea Stadium. R33 cars all decked out in the all white livery. Took these photos during the Mets vs Phillies doubleheader "Mets Warm Up T-Shirt Weekend" was the promotional giveaway.
Next is “Front Door Railfanning 1985” through the front window of subway trains on a random weekday during the Summer when I took ride to both Yankee and Shea Stadiums and then back home to Brooklyn.
First at the IRT Nostrand Avenue station, R-33’s 9067 and 9138 in the ill-advised all white paint job already being defaced by graffiti. Standard practice then, and probably still now, was for the MTA to park express trains at local stations during the day in between the morning and evening peak rush hour periods.
Next is the #4 train exiting from under the ground and going elevated with the iconic view of Yankee Stadium.
Then it’s on to Flushing.
#7 Train between 33 St/Rawson Street and 40 St/Lowery Street. Thanks to Google Maps that didn't exist in 1985, LOL, the train is about to cross over 37 Street, and more interestingly, the McDonald's restaurant sign post on the right is still there 39 years later - Google Street is from September 2024 - but with a different "M" Golden Arches.
Train is now pulling into 40 St/Lowery St with a westbound 7 train to Manhattan also pulling in.
Last is the switch tower over the Grand Central Parkway with tracks going to the Corona Yards and Shea Stadium in the background. Very hard to make out, but the Mets 1985 slogan "Catch the Rising Stars" is on a sign on the facing of the back of the upper deck.
1991 – Photo of the Gun Hill Road station and a southbound Red/Silver #2 SMEE train entering the station. Photo taken from my grand aunt’s apartment, looking west. Had three sets of relatives of my grandparents generation living in that apartment tower, one of which had a 16th floor view south of a few elevated subway lines and LaGuardia Airport. No problem guessing which balcony to find a young Kevin looking out from in the 1970s-80s LOL.
1991 – Metro North action taken from the deck of the Circle Line boat tour around Manhattan. First on the approach to the Park Avenue Bridge on the Manhattan side is a M4 in Red Stripe New Haven colors and then whilst almost under the bridge itself is a M3 with Blue Stripe.
Yes @Apples55 and @RSJB18, I supported both the Mets and Yankees during my high school/college days when I lived in New York.
Kevin, I always enjoy your pictures, especially the vintage ones.
