(subway breaking)
It is a hot, sweaty summer's July day
I'm in New York, on the subway,
on an eastbound southbound A train
and with me I have a special guest, it's Miles
In transit
From "Miles in Transit"
And you've met me today
You're from Boston Yes
But we're in New York and we're gonna go and do-
The least used station on the MTA
Which is...
Beach 105th street
(upbeat music)
We have picked a rainy day
But it's a warm summer's rain
And part of me, just for the adventure/experience
I kind of wanna get rained on. I wanna get wet
Has there ever been an incident of a train, you know
in a gail, blowing off into the water?
There have been incidents of this bridge
burning down back-
What? I mean, I was joking
I didn't mean that for real
and now there have been incidents
The reason that the city took this over
is because it used to be Long Island Railroad
It was a wooden trestle, burned down in 1950
City bought it in 1955
So it didn't used to be part of the MTA?
Yeah
And then they were like, we'll incorporate it
We're at Broad Channel
where we have to change for the shuttle
Which is coming in six minutes
On the map, it's a dotted line with an S
but there are some peak hour through services
like you said five in the morning?
Five a day
Five in the morning, five in the evening
So five in the morning going northbound
Yeah
And then evening, five going southbound
Right
All other times change at Broad Channel
to get down to the bit where you wanna go
Yeah
This station has the least amount of entrances
So raw numbers, this is technically
the least used station
But because so many people transfer here
the overall numbers
I think it gets an additional like 2,400 people a day
We should have a cheeky
this is the real least used station
We should
Let's hum the music
(Geoff and Miles humming)
It is an older style train
It is an older train
Yeah. Do we know the type of train it is Miles?
R68 maybe?
If you get that wrong...
I probably got it wrong, yeah
Orange plastic seats
I love these
(subway bell ringing)
See if this was longer, we could play Match the Maquette.
Here in New York, we get to play
match the orange plastic seat to the orange plastic seat.
It's not the same.
Do you not wish you had, you know, carpeted seats, Miles?
Well they get bed bugs in them.
What do they have in Boston?
They have carpeted seats, but like
they can be a little gross.
It's like what's in this?
The plastic?
Plastic, orange plastic. Come on, MTA.
I kind of love it, but I also,
I'm used to proper seats.
(seat tapping)
We are right by the water.
I mean look, that is right, oh my God.
I've also realised this might be an R62.
I'm noticing the number starts with six two.
Oh, so what does that mean?
I don't know, but...
Miles, it's alright.
I know that they're both trains.
Everybody in the comments, let Miles know why he's wrong.
Please do.
(Geoff laughing)
I'm used to it.
Alright. Third time's a charm.
It's apparently an R46.
Says on this little sticker.
Are you absolutely sure?
No, but...
Third time wrong.
It starts with and R, I know that.
We currently have the whole car.
Note how I said car not carriage.
Yeah. Good job.
Thank you. To ourselves.
Is this it, are we here?
Welcome to the least used station on the MTA.
(subway cars rattling)
It's raining.
Yeah.
But I've been saying this all day.
It's that warm summer rain.
It's not cold and it's not windy.
It's a warm summer's rain.
Do you hear the seagulls?
And I can hear the seagulls.
So we're by the beach.
It's even called not just 105th Street,
it's called 105th Street Seaside.
So it is.
Yeah. If I don't get like some kinda seagull shot,
then I'm gonna be disappointed.
Right. Can I go get a drink first
and then we'll do the station.
Yeah, get a drink.
(subway cars rattling)
We've come outside.
We're on Rockaway.
Is that Rockaway Freeway, Parkway?
Rockaway Freeway, apparently.
Thank you.
And look how cool it is.
The whole railroad, MTA subway, is elevated,
but it's elevated all the way down.
But it's not on iron, it's on concrete.
Right. And the road's empty so you can kind of just
hang out in the middle.
Just hang out in the road, yeah.
And not die.
Yeah. Do you wanna like pull a pose,
be like, "Hey, hey."
I'll be crazy.
I'll just look like I'm crazy.
(Geoff laughing)
(feet stomping)
Miles, I'm gonna do the thing
where I get a clip on my phone.
Oh, exposure. Hang on.
There we go.
(camera crashing) Yo!
Look, you can see it's-
Your safety is important to us.
Yeah.
Please stand away from the platform edge.
What about the safety of my camera?
Miles, I'm just gonna-
Those legs that are in really weird positions.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like Twistering itself.
Yeah, let's not do this.
So there's no blowing bin bags in the breeze.
No.
They're all these solid trash cans.
What I've noticed I liked about the subway,
they have these wooden benches.
These are everywhere, right? Yes.
Even downtown, underground.
You see them everywhere, yeah.
So that's the standard ubiquitous thing.
Yeah.
That's what they call head in the bin shot.
Normally I'd put my camera in the bin.
I'm just gonna insert my-
I'm doing this 'cause the bin is empty.
There is no trash in there.
It does not smell bad.
That's how least used this station is.
No one's using the trash receptacle.
(subway breaking)
I've just noted there's a puddle.
It would be rude not to get a puddle shot.
(subway cars rattling)
Did you notice that when the train came,
the conductor pointed out the window
before opening the doors?
Why'd he do that?
You have to point at the board thingy to show the knowledge
that you're at the right spot on the platform,
and then you open the doors.
But who whom is he pointing to?
Just in general, to acknowledge to himself.
It's like a policy thing.
You just, you gotta point.
It is so warm.
Yeah, welcome to summer in the Northeast.
Is it always this warm in the Northeast in the summer?
It's always this humid in the Northeast in the summer.
It's very humid.
Yeah. Okay.
Hello everyone.
Hello! Hello!
Hello!
The New York City Police Department.
A message from the police department.
If you see something suspicious-
If you see something that doesn't look right,
call British Transport Police.
Call the New York Police Department on 61016.
This is where you tell my YouTube about your YouTube.
Oh, I, okay.
I have a channel called "Miles in Transit"
where I do, I don't know, crazy transit things?
I'm like, I think Jeff is my closest analogue on YouTube.
Specifically, you've been known to do least used station.
Yes, I stole your concept.
(laughing) By US state.
Yeah.
And last year when I was in Utah,
I stumbled across Green River with my friend.
And as a joke, we sort of did a,
it wasn't a real version of least used station,
but somebody in the comments went,
"You've stolen Miles's idea.
He's doing least used stations."
And I was like, Miles, who?
And I went, oh, this guy!
Yeah.
And then I sat and watched several
of your least used stations.
And of course I have to mention,
you had the wrong station in Utah.
Oh no. I know, I know.
And I was in Helper filming the Helper video
when he did that.
(Geoff laughing)
Are you honestly trying to get around all 50 states?
Yeah!
Does Alaska have a- Well-
Does Alaska have a railroad?
Yes.
Does Hawaii have a railroad?
No, well it does now.
They just opened a subway line.
Then you've gotta go Hawaii.
Yeah, I guess so.
In which city? Whereabouts?
Honolulu. In Honolulu, wow.
Honolulu got a new railway?
Yeah.
(Geoff tapping on the bench)
You have the numbers.
I do.
On a bit of paper?
I think I forgot them.
No, they're on my phone.
Get get your phone out.
Alright I'll get my phone out.
Miles has...
I tried to memorise them before the shot.
That's all right, no just-
But don't start talking about me, I'm egotistical, so.
That's fine.
That's fine. All right.
People need to know who you are. It's fine.
All right.
Otherwise they're just like,
who's this random dude that Geoff's just met in New York?
Who doesn't know what an R46 is?
(Geoff laughing)
So we are at 105 Street Seaside.
Yes.
On the Rockaway shuttle branch of the MTA.
And sometimes the A.
Yeah and sometimes the A. Five times a day.
But it is, what are the official passenger stats?
All right, In 2021 Beach 105th Street got 41,237 riders
throughout the year.
And you can divide that by-
Divide it by 365.
You can divide by 365.
A hundred and thirteen a day.
Okay, that's not a lot.
Not a lot.
We've walked to the fence at the end.
There is a cute little ticket office down below.
Yeah.
Standard ticket machines, come into shot, Miles.
Ticket machines.
Your safety is important to us.
Wow! I'm sure it is!
Stand clear of the platform edge.
We're nowhere near it!
We're the only people here.
All right Geoff.
What facilities do we have here?
The dot-matrix display is just a time and date display.
If you want the train times,
There's an LCD screen for that.
Downstairs, yeah there is a little ticket machine.
The maps are up.
There's no shop here.
We have to go to the Walgreens around the corner.
Is there a car park?
Do stations have car parks here?
Yes. In New York?
Sometimes.
Grant Ave has the only one that I know of.
Okay.
We haven't referenced your amazing T-shirt.
Which is officially licenced.
Yes.
Where did you get it from?
My uncle gave it to me,
but he probably got it at the MTA Transit Museum
either in Brooklyn, which is an amazing museum.
Or they also have an annex at Grand Central Station.
And I thought I was wearing an amazing T-shirt,
but apparently Miles has got some issues with my T-shirt.
Yeah, I-
Miles, what's wrong with my T-shirt?
I've noticed three errors.
Uh huh?
So first of all, missing the UP of Michigan.
(laughing) Oh right, yeah.
Rhode Island and Connecticut
have been merged into one thing.
Okay. Okay.
And then somehow Maryland is missing.
That's the really weird one.
They just missed off an entire state.
(subway rattling)
(seagulls chirping)
It is so humid and so warm,
I'm going to the shop to get another drink.
Do you want another drink?
No, thanks.
I've gotta get a drink.
(feet stomping)
And we've come down the southern end,
where basically, what I can see is...
A lot of industry.
It's a trans accessible wastewater treatment plant.
Wow.
We can actually see the workings of it down there.
It's like being at Marsh Barton
with the waste next to the station.
(seagulls chirping)
I can put trash in the bin now.
Trash in the bin. Trash in the bin.
Trash is in the bin.
I can't believe I'm saying the word trash.
So bad. Trash.
You gotta say waste basket.
That's the one that people always yell at me about.
I don't know where it comes from, but that's what I say.
The train is coming.
In exciting news, we've-
You've stood on my shoulder, shoulder, shoulder.
Oh, hang on, or do you want me on this side?
I don't know. All right.
In exciting news,
we've decided that at the next stop down,
Miles and I are gonna do like a whole half an hour sit down.
Okay.
You're gonna tell me things about the subway.
All right. I have questions.
All right. I'll try to answer them.
But that's the end of this,
but bonus video where Miles and I
just chat for half an hour about trains.
Yay!
Here comes the train.
What type of train is it, Miles?
Oh, an R46!
It's correct.
Yeah!
This is a train to Rockaway Park.
That is it, Miles. Thank you so much.
Thank you.
That is the least used station...
On the MTA.
Apart from that caveat.
The caveat, Broad Channel, yeah.
So go watch Miles's videos and stuff.
It's been a pleasure having you, sir.
Thank you very much.
We're riding the old train home.
That's it.
We're gonna take the ferry home.
Oh, we're getting the ferry from where?
Yeah. Well, we should have actually did on at 105th,
but you wanted to get a shot of us on the train.
Okay, we'll do that, all right.
We'll get the ferry home.
All right, bye.
Bye.
(upbeat music)