Above ground, it’s been raining pretty hard in the New York City area today. Below ground, it has apparently been doing the same. Via amNewYork reporter Tim Herrera comes this video of an E train entering Penn Station earlier today during the deluge. It’s sort of sad, sort of dramatic and sort of hilarious when straphangers have to use their umbrellas to exit a train underground. The subways are decidedly not waterproof.
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Wasn’t this a problem last year during some heavy rains, at this very same station, on this very same platform?
You’d think, given a year, maybe the MTA would try to do something…
It definitely was 5 years ago: http://gothamist.com/2006/08/1.....s_curt.php
Downtown stairs on the No. 6 train at 51st Street has been a cascade of water roughly resmbling the Canadian side of Niagara Falls for years during heavy rains. It’s actually pretty amazing to see … as long as you’re standing on the uptown platform. Considering it’s one of the closest stations to MTA headquarters, someone there must really think it’s beautiful because they haven’t done squat to fix the drainage problem.
I bet my home station of Knickerbocker on the M is just drenched. It’s ABOVE GROUND and FLOODS (ponder that a moment) during even a minor rainstorm. But with a station that has plywood doors and generally looks like a lean-to I guess that’s what to expect.
absolutely shameful
I thought that was a city funded art project