135 Comments for Rochester Subway

Im gunna go here and to the state hospidal soon

back in 2010 they held a "dinner" in there. Perhaps why it appears so clean. They do open that up from time to time for limited access tours, which I did last year.

Hi Motts, these photos are awesome. In 2005, when my wife and I had just only started dating, she took me down here to see the "underground." It was a lot dirtier and filled with all sorts of garbage; both from decaying trolley equipment, to the left overs from the homeless guys. We went about ten feet back past the light, when something huge bumped into my thigh. As I panicked, she quickly walked me out, only to tell me a month later it just might have been a rat. Holy. Jesus. Fast forward to last year in June, and we went down. What a major difference! They have cleared out just about all the excess junk, sectioned off the old stairwells (so no one falls, I suppose) and we were able to walk the whole 2 miles. It was a bit unnerving, even with flashlights. But let me tell you, it is surreal at the same time. I did begin to panic a bit, but we finally made it to the other end, down behind Canal Street. The city is still torn up about whether or not to fill it, or create retail space, thus taking away from the integrity of this unique, art filled place. It is one of many odd things that makes Rochester special. :)

..Artwork on the walls? That's graffiti. And it sucks. Damn taggers just lay it on wherever they want and diminish whatever was already there.

I don't think it was that deep in this area - just a big puddle.

DOPE GRAFITTI

Motts, about how deep is that water? This picture is.playing games with my mind. This old subway is awesome i hope to see it one day. If its not gone already

I am also the only one on this site who thinks so

that water is part of the gennesee aqueduct and the erie canal.it is much more flooded than in recent years and the catwalk is falling apart even more.i was there this past fall/winter.there has been talk of either filling the whole thing in with dirt or making it an ever changing exhibit for urban art.in the 1930s it started dying down in use with only limited runs till the 1950`s then only small freight lines until the late 1990`s for gannet newspaper company.now its mostly inhabited by rochesters homeless also known as mole people so its not the safest place come dusk.some of the original tunnel was filled in with dirt already i think around 2004.this link has many pics of what the aqueduct looked like and much more http://www.oprhp.state...w.asp?GroupView=4164 this is deff a great spot for urbex but no known paranormals as far as i have heard.

a little further in past this is where most of the "scary people" are to be found, and really more so in the winter. there is an old little building with a little tunnel (marked entrance to hell) where most of the homeless sleep because there are belching steam pipes that keep it really warm all year.

you just have to watch out sometimes if you wake up the homeless people down there you'll have bottles or other objects thrown at you. the odd percussive steam pipe sounds can get creepy if it's your first time down there.

my friends tag up some sweet stuff down in that area. if you head father in and get to the old loading dock area for the newspapers there is a bunch of random graffiti my friends and i did years back and there used to be old mounted deer heads on the walls we had left there. some of the finer/hilarious graffiti is down there in the dark where one can only glimpse it with a flashlight.

when i lived in rochester this was where we hung out alot. this spot is what we refer to as the hobo toilet (as there is usually human feces and garbage on the platform that over looks the river).

i live in rochester and i can tell you they are not going to fill it in,too much money.you need to go there again motts

yeah,the fast ferry was a stupid investment