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Video: Rain Falls Into Leaky Fulton Street Subway Stop

080911rainysubway.png During today's torrential rains, your cheap bodega umbrella wasn't the only thing leaking: reader Johanna Clearfield, who was headed to Brooklyn, passed along this video of the Fulton Street A/C subway stop leaking water on one side of the platform. MTA workers are herding passengers through the soaked area, telling them to "keep going" lest the stone above begins to crumble.

Leakage At Fulton Street Subway Stop from Gothamist on Vimeo.

A similar scene went down in Penn Station back in 2006.

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  • I don't get it. The train system is how old? Of course there are leaks. this is nothing new. It happens every single time it rains. Is that good, no. But it happens when you have one of the oldest subway systems in the world. Good job for the MTA to step in and make it safe for the riders.


  • who cares about A and C riders, they are ghetto.  

  • RammyH

    Seriously, I'm a C rider and the level of service and disrespect is at an  all time low.

    Took two hrs to get from 50th St Manhattan to Nostrand last night.  "Signal problems" literally every damn day at Hoyt-Schermerhorn, and of course every other train line gets to jump ahead of the C when there's a backup.

    That's what hurts most, you're stuck waiting for whatever nonsense is going on ahead of you and four A trains just pass you by.  And yesterday, B, D and A trains were passing my train by.  

    And finally when the C finally crawls into Hoyt Schermerhorn, its re-routed as an express so it skips my damn stop.  Bastards.

  • whitecastlerock

    Everything is fine. More countdown clocks and smart cards. Jay Walder was the second coming of Jesus Christ. It's a 24/7 system. Extension of the #7 line. 2nd avenue subway line. Albany is to blame. FUCK THE MTA!

  • colonelcasey

    Probably caused by the construction of the Fulton Transit Center, which has opened all sorts of new holes for water to seep through.

  • jisnotused

    emfuckingbarrasing. 

  • that station has some really nasty spots; surprising that so many of wall street's subway stops are such shitholes.  although there is a major upgrade going on there that looks good so far.

  • dayglo

    third world infrastructure. little wonder we got downgraded. it's emblematic of a more general decline.

  • Another victim of not knowing how to shoot video on their flavor-of-the-month gadget 

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