Thanks Cornelia, Tom and the Travelettes!

Cornelia Read, author of the awesome Madeline Dare novels, shared a story via FB friend Mr. Tom Barclay about a 1904 New York City subway station that is no longer used. The story comes courtesy of the Travelettes Blog and is here.

The pictures depict a beautiful yet eerie time capsule of the NYC Subway's past. This is not the only station no longer being used. If you click on this link you'll find more, along with pictures and information where available. I spent a few hours reading through the list and checking out the pictures. It was pretty neat.

You can read more about the City Hall station and see more pictures here and here. And if you want to see something really awesome, check out this link. It has vintage footage of a short subway ride from May 21,1905 (about 7 months after the subway opened), and if you watch carefully you will catch a fleeting glimpse of Victorian-garbed ordinary people preserved for posterity waiting for trains on subterranean platforms. Station personnel in a platform booth stay in view as the train rounds a curve. And at the end, a platform full of dapper well-dressed men in suits, hats, some with canes, bustle around by the train, soon replaced by families and women with small children. At the very end, people who notice the camera glance uncertainly in its direction before continuing on their way, and one man appears to wave as the train departs. 

The picture below is shamelessly stolen from this article (November, 2010). 

As you may have guessed, I am a huge history buff. So you can bet that the next time I am in New York (which will be for ThrillerFest VII) I plan to take that 6 train and see this beautiful gem of the past for myself.

And I also have a neat new blog to read!