I'm Jen, your local New York City guide and today I'm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn I
am taking the train over to explore one of the most beautiful subway stations
here in New York that you honestly cannot get access to except if you are
on the 6 train and you just ride it past that last stop you keep on the
train and you can see it just out of the corner of your eye through the window.
It's a little bit dark however there is another way to see it and that is what
I'm going to tell you all about today it is the way through the New York transit
museum. You have to first be a member to buy a membership and then in addition to
that you have to keep on your emails and be ready to sign up for their tour of
the abandoned City Hall it is definitely their most popular tour but they do a
ton of tours around New York around the New York City subway station and I am so grateful
that I finally got a chance to sign up I'm on the list and going today my one
goal - I have one goal - is just to take one photo.
I'm afraid I probably have three challenges. Challenge number one I have
to try and get a shot without anyone in it it is probably gonna be a big tour so
that might be really hard. (there were about 30 people) Challenge number two I only have 20 minutes to get
the shot. I'm not sure how big the station is what it's gonna be like what
the conditions are with the light is gonna be like I hope it's good I don't
know and challenge number three I'm not
allowed to bring my tripod so I'm going to prop it up my camera up on my purse
on the ground see what happens and hopefully I still get the shot we'll
find out!
anything up there? "nope"
Okay, is it focused and there we go... I interrupt this video because I kind of
wanted to add a little bit more a couple days later as the snow is melting and I
was able to kind of reflect on that whole experience which was super quick
but you know you're actually in City Hall for only 20 minutes the whole tour
is 90 minutes the whole beginning you're walking around above ground you're
learning about the history and it was super educational but unfortunately
there's a lot of things I already knew a lot of things that I included in my blog
posts that I had researched for my you know 25 secrets about the subway and
things like that so as me even know wow it's loud in this city even though I
felt like I knew a lot of the facts already I can't stress how amazing it
was to see something that you've learned about you've read about you've written
about in person and I have to say that the city hall experience actually seeing
it in person and going on the tour was one of the coolest things I've ever done
here in New York which says something because I've done a lot of cool
experiences and being able to go see it after reading about it you know
listening and hearing about it and everything was so cool so even though
it's expensive even though you have to buy both a membership to the New York
chance of Museum and then you also have to stay on top of your emails once they
release the tours they release the tour dates three times the three times a year
and then they have 16 different dates throughout the year so you know it's a
lot of hoops that you have to jump through it's kind
expensive if you can plan ahead get the membership online ahead of time and get
the you know sign up for the tour because if you've ever wanted to learn
about the subway and the you know unique history that it has and this first ever
station a subway station that was the crowning jewel of the entire transit you
know system in 1904 when it opened 150,000 people wrote it it went from
City Hall downtown all the way up to Grand Central and even further and it's
just a like I I feel like I'm not giving it justice but I need to explain as much
as I can as how cool this was yes you're there with a bunch of people yes they
don't love photography I do want to say that they definitely only yelled at me once.
Okay great so now that I've frozen my butt off
what else did I want to say okay
they say everything I don't know I don't know it's so cold
Oh also fun fact City Hall was actually rebuilt in a studio for Fantastic
Beasts and where to find them (1) I have an entire video and blog post about that
and included you know stock footage of City Hall but I think it's so
fascinating that they rebuilt it for that scene at the end of the first movie
where they have a huge fight scene you know every you know a little bit of
violence I'm like oh no don't hurt the station it's so beautiful so I'll let
these noisy trucks go by and I definitely wanted to just like mention
that because I thought that was so cool when I first saw it in the movie I was
like that's such an awesome New York thing that most New Yorkers probably
don't realize but you know if you do know about study hall you'll see the
sign and you'll be like oooh I know exactly which city hall that is that's
the old station not the new Brooklyn Bridge City Hall stop and I guess with
that I will let all the noisy buses pass and I will let you continue on with the
video but I wanted to let you you know in on the magic and let you know about
fantastic Beasts and what it was really like for me I absolutely loved this
experience I'm highly recommend it and I really hope that everyone gets to go see
it all you have to do is sign up for the museum membership keep an eye on your
emails you do have to like if you're only visiting for a certain time if to
make sure that that is included in one of the dates so it is tricky but I
highly recommend it you need to go on this tour keep in mind that photography
is sort of limited they are very strict about photography no tripods and things
like that so I did have to sort of you know make do with putting my camera on
the ground prop it up up on my purse but I have done that before and I can do it
again it was not that bad and asking for people for help you know I asked a
couple of people but for the most part I just put on the ground and it worked out
so I hope you enjoyed the rest of this
video and see the finally the photos that I got I actually think they turned
up pretty good but you have to tell me keep watching okay bye
I actually did it! I got not just one shot and I think I got three really good
shots but you have to tell me what you think what do you think of these which one
is your favorite, comment down below
okay and as always say yes to new adventures and I'll see you next time
I don't know why
cause I dance like this ... who dances like this... I don't know what okay don't forget to
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okay pardon me while I cry okay why did I choose a cold day to film this