im looking for stalagmites in subway stations! i know the ones in canal street (jmz/q,n)

in what other stations can i find stalagmites?

Canal Street IRT/BMT has improved.

Check out this pic from the 1990s:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/triborough/107394011/in/set-72057594074272555/

gurple: you sound like a redneck

Amen, Gurple.

(Sorry, 6/NRQW Canal)

Quick note: Chambers is shitty, but the lower levels of Canal Street smell like 30 day-old rotting corpse.

I personally wouldn't trust this City's transportation system in a bloated, unaccountable bureaucracy's hand anymore.

I can't believe that you idiots are complaining about dirty subway stations. I will say it one more time : MOVE BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM.

I'm not saying its impossible...

I just wouldnt trust this City's transportation system in private hands at this point.

Lots of things have changed in 66 years man...

Um... the BMT and IRT subways were built by private companies. They weren't owned by the city until 1940.

In General of course.

Another thing is that no subway system comparable to ours in size is profitable, except the systems in Japan.

And for various reasons, we can not duplicate their success.

"Privatize it."

Never. Its shitty, yes... but it runs. You privatize the subway and they'll raise fares, shut down stations AND minimize, maybe shut down service all together at nights after a certain time.

The last thing this city needs is a for profit company that runs the subway.

Keep in mind one reason why the subways are shitty is that WE NEW YORKERS ARE SHITTY.

this station is AWESOME. I am so sad they are entombing half of it. The high ceilings and view down on the old, crappy cars used on the JMZ is spine-tingling good.

The F/V line through midtown has HUGE rats on the platform all the damn time. That's worse.

Fulton and Essex have had nice facelifts, however it's sad to think that Bowery, Canal, and Chambers once looked like this...sigh.

Privatize it.

I can't believe nobody's mentioned the 21st St. stop on the G line in Long Island City. This is truly the seventh circle of hell.

Another vote for 168th street, the 1 train platform. It's always steaming hot down there, which is why it's a veritable homeless shelter. Pools of weird white drainage on the floor next to trash and urine. It's positively disgusting on it's own. Add to that the hit-or-miss elevators and I think you've got a contender for worst subway station in Manhattan.

Fulton and Essex had nice makeovers. But to think that Bowery, Canal, & Chambers once looked like this...sigh.

Privatize it.

(Photo of Canal Street courtesy of Abandoned Stations)

hi igor, stalactites are the ones that hang from the ceiling, and stalagmites rise from the ground. In case you care... :)

please fix the 205th station..it has stink drips..and little stalagamites..however you spell it..and its hit or miss if the escalator is on..which needs a scrubbing big time..205th is in need of a huge overhall..