With the reopening of South Ferry set for tomorrow morning at 5 a.m., the MTA has released a seven-minute video of B-roll footage from the loop station. Take a trip through the tunnels, watch gap-fillers in action and enjoy the pan through the gussied-up station. Meanwhile, for a trip down memory lane, the last time we had video from South Ferry, it looked like a bunch of scenes out of a disaster movie.
Video: Inside the South Ferry loop
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Wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the old new south ferry, is the newsouth ferry! And at the end of the month, smith9sts opens!
Ben, do you, by any chance, have any update on the restoration of the new South Ferry platforms that were damaged by Sandy?
I would guess, judging by the relatively screech-free B-roll audio, they also have the track-lubricating water spray nozzles working again (if they ever turned them off). Still going to be a high-pitched symphony when you’re waiting for the 1 and a Bowling Green 5 comes barreling through on the inner loop, but it’s still better than a walk to Rector.
Whoa, what video you were watching that was screech-free? It sounds pretty horrendous at the 2:40 mark.
Relatively screech-free.
An architecturally amazing station; I had always questioned why they didn’t bother to at least move some of the Tilework down to the New South Ferry, the perfect demonstration of the fallacy of modern architecture.
Of course, in this scenario, it just so happened to work out that they didn’t move it. 😀
I would just hope that — since they showed they could mimic the original SF tiling with the tile put on the new transfer passageway to the R — when they rebuild lower South Ferry, they could at least do the same thing (assuming all the tile’s going to end up stripped so they can fix the pre-Sandy waterproofing problems that showed up).
Even though the lower SF tiles are often hidden behind the waiting trains, opting to make the station a copy of 57th St.-Sixth Avenue on the F instead of trying to replicate the original upper SF tiles managed to make a half-billion dollar station look cheap.