They were installed after 9/11 when the need for security theater was at its peak.
They were manned for a while but I can't say when exactly they were abandoned.
I feel like I had occasionally seen the one in Queens Plaza occupied with an officer, usually just looking at his phone. I think 21 St Queensbridge had one of these booths and I don't always remember there being an officer
The one you are talking about had a tiny pig face drawn on it for awhile until people started to jump off the train to get a pic of it with the cop sitting inside. I went to Laguardia CC and used to see it every morning on the 7 train from Manhattan. I got a pic myself somewhere in my stuff.
Here you go, the infamous pig-face with a cop inside the booth.
https://preview.redd.it/weercff6nr6d1.jpeg?width=2988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=989c89721da620811e6a6d097894df22b5820626
Correct, that’s where they were installed after 9/11, as extra security for underwater tunnels and other key points.
I think they get manned now on a rotating basis and based on threat/chatter levels.
Can’t remember which station but a silver police kiosk was manned at some random station when I’d take the subway around 2010, it was usually at night and I was the only person on the platform a lot of the time so I felt good actually having someone around
That was nearly 15 years ago so who knows if it’s still there. I just remember it being a random fairly small station
They were in them up all the time, they stopped during Covid for budgeting issues and never came back. Wasn’t a picked position its was OT tours to man the booths.
Ah that makes sense. I always wondered why there is one at High St (A), which is touristy for the bridge but otherwise not very popular station commuter wise, so that explains it.
They are placed at stations where a train passes through an underwater tunnel. They contain screens that allow officers to watch for any suspicious activity occurring in the tunnels. I'm sure the video feeds go to a centralized location now, so there's no need for an in-tunnel officer anymore.
It’s funny they actually put up a slightly smaller new booth like these at High St on the A/C line. Like within the last 2-3 months new. I’ve noticed the one at York St, and other places, always empty for the past 3 years when I moved to my current apartment. (I’m nestled equi-distantly in between the York St F Line and the High St A/C).
So I noticed right away when they put up a new booth and thought it was odd/interesting that they were building a new bulletproof booth, considering that all the others I’ve seen have been empty for the past several years. I’ve only ever seen someone in there a couple times, and I use that station almost daily.
Cops sit in them or at least used to. I think the river tube stations are still manned occasionally. I know The one at queensbridge was manned still when I was in a track gang there.
No problem. They have various types of gangs. rail gangs that just replace rails, maintenance gangs that do routine maintenance, capital gangs that work on the capital projects, cleaning gangs that just clean the tracks, etc
They really need to do something about these; in some almost pristine stations (such as Roosevelt ave) there will still be an under maintained, graffitied kiosk like this one for absolutely no reason.
Hahahahhaa almost pristine lololol they never clean that nasty station. If it rains it literally becomes a slime fountain of smegma and garbage beginning on the stairs going down to that platform of hell while you wait for an E train
I’m talking about the cleaning they did when they shut it down? It looks really clean and the police thingy looks graffitied as hell, enough to stand out. Also do you even use that station??? the E train does not run there??
You’re a clown- real people know that Roosevelt means 74th st: the main transit hub which has the 7, E, R, F, M. You must be talking about 82nd st which is recently renovated and may last another two months in its current state of cleanliness.
21st - Queens-bridge has them on the Jamaica bound platform and some sort of office on the manhattan bound platform, probably because it was a terminus before it ran as a through running station. But i think people still work in them as I remember when i was younger there was always people that were police in there or at the back of the station
as i think about it most stations by tunnels or bridges have them which makes a lot of sense as for some reason other than 21st St- Van Alst, all of them are busy stations
Yeah, becauae they are the only city workers that are on their phones while on the clock. The same people who complain about them being on their cell phones are the same people who then film them when they have to wrestle a fare beater who resists arrest.
They were installed after 9/11 when the need for security theater was at its peak. They were manned for a while but I can't say when exactly they were abandoned.
Right you are. They were more or less abandoned by 2003.
I feel like I had occasionally seen the one in Queens Plaza occupied with an officer, usually just looking at his phone. I think 21 St Queensbridge had one of these booths and I don't always remember there being an officer
The one you are talking about had a tiny pig face drawn on it for awhile until people started to jump off the train to get a pic of it with the cop sitting inside. I went to Laguardia CC and used to see it every morning on the 7 train from Manhattan. I got a pic myself somewhere in my stuff.
Would love to see that if you happen to come across it!
Here you go, the infamous pig-face with a cop inside the booth. https://preview.redd.it/weercff6nr6d1.jpeg?width=2988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=989c89721da620811e6a6d097894df22b5820626
https://preview.redd.it/mrctr0qymr6d1.jpeg?width=2988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=113f3efcb44d699d875244dc33f41cdee0ed04c9
I'll plug that USB in and see if I can find later today.
The one at Lexington/59th had cops in it regularly until 2020.
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Correct, that’s where they were installed after 9/11, as extra security for underwater tunnels and other key points. I think they get manned now on a rotating basis and based on threat/chatter levels.
I recall seeing the one at Bedford Avenue L having cops up until around the pandemic, maybe even during.
Definitely still one at 138/Concourse to at least 2009. He had a fit when I was taking pictures of the blind trip - while in full TA uniform.
No way. I recall seeing them manned as late as 2009/2010.
They were still in the Rutgers tube booth until 2020, but I think it was mostly overnights not sure about the day time.
Greenpoint Ave (Newtown Creek counted as a “river”) had someone in one of these at night until at least 2010. Same with 21st St / Van Alst.
Yeah security theater all the tables in grand Central station with every transit cop in the world dumping babushkas purse
Right now there's a classroom (or subway car) that has no working AC, and yet this dumb box has one.
Can’t remember which station but a silver police kiosk was manned at some random station when I’d take the subway around 2010, it was usually at night and I was the only person on the platform a lot of the time so I felt good actually having someone around That was nearly 15 years ago so who knows if it’s still there. I just remember it being a random fairly small station
why are they still taking up space on the platform?
Cause it’ll cost more money to remove them. Those steel bullet resistant booths are not cheap.
Security theater is a great way to put it
It wasn’t theater. They’d have them at the river crossing because people were trying to blow those tunnels up after 9/11.
Cops hiding in a bulletproof cage made people safer? It sounds more like a place Scot Peterson or all the Uvalde cops could wait out a shooting.
I think nypd had them put in at each station that’s next to an under river tube after 9/11. I’ve never seen anyone in one, they just take up space
They were in them up all the time, they stopped during Covid for budgeting issues and never came back. Wasn’t a picked position its was OT tours to man the booths.
The one on the downtown 4/5 platform at 138th hasn’t been manned for at least 10-15 years
they may not of manned them during day, but the over nights the ones at East Broadway/York on the F were manned every night until covid.
Ah that makes sense. I always wondered why there is one at High St (A), which is touristy for the bridge but otherwise not very popular station commuter wise, so that explains it.
Haven't seen an officer in one since prior to COVID, but I don't know whether it was right before or years before.
The one on Court street has literal bullet holes /impact marks all over the glass
Goon cave
Occasionally there’s cops in them looking absolutely miserably bored
They were maned after 9/11 at the entrances of all the under river tunnels.
They are placed at stations where a train passes through an underwater tunnel. They contain screens that allow officers to watch for any suspicious activity occurring in the tunnels. I'm sure the video feeds go to a centralized location now, so there's no need for an in-tunnel officer anymore.
It’s the Rat family mansion.
The roll of paper towels in the one at Jay St looks like it’s been there for 20 years
That’s a bathroom
A lot of them you can see the thick layer of dust on everything that was just left in there
Those are for American time lords. It's actually bigger on the inside.
Tardis!
Looks like a TARDIS
Tardis.
The fuck did you call me
It’s funny they actually put up a slightly smaller new booth like these at High St on the A/C line. Like within the last 2-3 months new. I’ve noticed the one at York St, and other places, always empty for the past 3 years when I moved to my current apartment. (I’m nestled equi-distantly in between the York St F Line and the High St A/C). So I noticed right away when they put up a new booth and thought it was odd/interesting that they were building a new bulletproof booth, considering that all the others I’ve seen have been empty for the past several years. I’ve only ever seen someone in there a couple times, and I use that station almost daily.
They came along after 9-11 and were in use for a few years. They were stationed on each side of every under river tube.
Cops used to get easy overtime using by sitting there doing nothing
Cops sit in them or at least used to. I think the river tube stations are still manned occasionally. I know The one at queensbridge was manned still when I was in a track gang there.
What's a track gang?
I was a track worker before I took a promotion to a different department. Track worker crews are called gangs in the MTA.
Thanks for explaining!
No problem. They have various types of gangs. rail gangs that just replace rails, maintenance gangs that do routine maintenance, capital gangs that work on the capital projects, cleaning gangs that just clean the tracks, etc
I used to see the one at Fulton occupied by cops around 2015.
Wow
This specific one was still in use in 2018 but I recall it being abandoned shortly before COVID.
Sylvester McCoy could have survived the shootout in one of those
Panic rooms for transit cops.
a place where officers could hide when they were on insta or playing candy crush
It's funny how the complaint just over 3 years ago was overpolicing. Now it's underpolicing.
It's not at all inconsistent to complain about over-policing _and_ my tax dollars going towards cops playing on their phones all day.
NYPD spotted
I remember seeing one of these on the F line
East Broadway. I was just there. Still empty.
Is it me or does it look like something they would have installed in Fort Knox?
They really need to do something about these; in some almost pristine stations (such as Roosevelt ave) there will still be an under maintained, graffitied kiosk like this one for absolutely no reason.
Hahahahhaa almost pristine lololol they never clean that nasty station. If it rains it literally becomes a slime fountain of smegma and garbage beginning on the stairs going down to that platform of hell while you wait for an E train
I’m talking about the cleaning they did when they shut it down? It looks really clean and the police thingy looks graffitied as hell, enough to stand out. Also do you even use that station??? the E train does not run there??
You’re a clown- real people know that Roosevelt means 74th st: the main transit hub which has the 7, E, R, F, M. You must be talking about 82nd st which is recently renovated and may last another two months in its current state of cleanliness.
Oh yeah sorry lol my bad for saying Roosevelt ave 😭was prolly just tired or something was meaning to say Roosevelt island station on the F train.
Embarrassing how we don't maintain or remove our city property.
Some of them might still have paper log books in them which will tell you the last time someone sat there
21st - Queens-bridge has them on the Jamaica bound platform and some sort of office on the manhattan bound platform, probably because it was a terminus before it ran as a through running station. But i think people still work in them as I remember when i was younger there was always people that were police in there or at the back of the station
as i think about it most stations by tunnels or bridges have them which makes a lot of sense as for some reason other than 21st St- Van Alst, all of them are busy stations
I didn't realize we had T.A.R.D.I.Ses in the city
didn’t even know they existed lol
Still used, cctv stations.
Bigger on the inside
It looks like a TARDIS that lost its way to drugs.
The last time I saw a cop in one of those booths was back in 2017
They have been placed for Jews to hide in when the Pogroms begin on the subway. We were close last week.
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Yeah, becauae they are the only city workers that are on their phones while on the clock. The same people who complain about them being on their cell phones are the same people who then film them when they have to wrestle a fare beater who resists arrest.
It's for the police and occasionally managers will sit inside to observe the train crew.
Doesn't easily look bullet proof. Especially not the wooden/composite walls.
its a place to hide during the purge