new yorkers love to complain about the subway but what if i told you there's some
stations you should visit for fun today we'll be sharing new york's best subway stations and why
you should check them out we'll be joined by a native new yorker to get his take as well
let's go action kid the last video we shot together we showed the worst subway stations
in new york i think this one's going to be a lot more fun for us right new yorkers love to give
the subway a bad rap but these are some places that you should visit and they're very awesome
even after all this time coming here this place still impresses me so much they actually opened
this up during special events and you can see a perfect view of the one world trade center
this is pretty unique for new york city having a mall built directly around all the subways
i like it it's actually really clean too i know i mean it really reminds me of asia when i went
to taiwan they had all these underground shopping malls connected to the subway station there's 12
different lines here plus the path train it's one of the most central hubs in all of manhattan it's
futuristic it doesn't feel like new york city it feels more like tokyo i'm not feeling grimy about
staying in a subway station all day like last time yeah i needed two showers after that video
i don't think i've actually ever really looked up crossing through here
it kind of feels like epcot center a little bit and you said 1.3 billion dollars to make this
this fulton center yes 1.3 billion dollars it's an incredible summer money i've heard a lot of
new yorkers say it was a waste of money but yeah and you got a shake shack here one of many now
look at manny yeah how do you like better shake shack in an out burger i know you're just in l.a
i say shake shack i'm voting for shake shack too ben ben what's good what's good ben shake shack
east coast 13.49 of krispy kreme i thought for a second it was 13 for a donut and then i realized
like well new york's not that expensive no yet every time with you i need like three swipes
you did it
i'm just kidding you're funny it'd be funny we got cuffed right there now have you ever been
curious what this was if you jumped out at world trade it's called chorus this is a one
million dollar art piece and it has different parts of the un's declaration of human rights
and the u.s declaration of independence all embossed on the wall it feels like you're
at some kind of a monument in washington dc i always found this really fascinating
this subway stop the artwork just hits you right as you step off you have this big mural it was
designed in 2000 with a lot of different types of animals and species some of which are extinct
such as all the dinosaurs i remember this from elementary school the stegosaurus i swore i saw
i saw a dodo here where's tall traveling clat they show extinct species here species that still exist
and if it has a little question mark as of 2000 it meant that this species was in danger it's
like a little easter egg on these murals you know the sad thing is i'm usually in such a
rush at these stations that i never actually look around and enjoy the artwork this is amazing here
i feel the same way whenever i'm rushing to get a train that i don't really take the time to go
and look at all this artwork oh wow this is 3d the great white shark definitely not extinct
they also have fossils as part of this mural it's not just species
it's a nice mix and it also inspires you to visit the national history museum which
a lot of people should do when they visit new york you're right what better advertisement than this
yeah we're doing one today about the best subways
now this is one of new york city's newest stations open 2017 right yeah january 1st 2017 there were
three new subway stations on the second avenue subway 72nd 86 and 96.
ladies and gentlemen we have found the real action kid that doesn't look like me i need a cape
you do need a case supposed to depict strangers in new york city waiting for the subway
if you need a signal that new york city is coming back look around you
look around you at rush hour now i really like the artwork in here because it just depicts
average people yeah look average people because you would see someone like this on the subway you
see all sorts of people on the subway what's the weirdest thing you've ever seen somebody
doing on the subway that's not illegal or disgusting someone brought on an entire
like steel beam which is like i don't know two subway cars with long i one time saw a magician
on the subway and he was levitating cards that's probably the weirdest thing i've ever seen the
city's been working on the second avenue subway for like decades now and finally there's three new
stations look how big this sicilian slice is it speaks for itself all right let's try it let's go
i love the cheese i love the dough it's very puffy it's one of their signatures that dough
is amazing here cut some yards we are not here to show you artwork we're just here to
show you the station right everything's very symmetrical it's very modern wide spacious
new york comic-con that explains a lot i feel like there's never anybody actually in this station
it's usually quiet do you think this is the steepest escalator in new york city oh this is it
man look at it this thing isn't crazy to look at if you got vertigo this could possibly scare you
you're looking up into like heaven seriously i'm not holding the guardrail but i feel like
any kind of like slight movement i'll probably fall all the way down
action kid insists this is new york's best elevator ride i have no idea what
it's about to happen but he said it's a surprise
so most elevators in new york and the world for that matter go up and down this one goes
diagonal imagine getting stuck here instead of the fire bar and going in the elevator shaft and come
down they probably have to like toss your rope here flying oh wait there's steps here there are
steps yeah so this elevator makes sense why aren't they making wet elevators like this all right
all right times square we go
some would call this the worst subway station in new york it has a lot of benefits that many
people probably don't think about basically you can connect to like 16 different subway lines
here as far as accessibility is concerned this is by far the best nation in the city oh yeah
it's also the most crowded they have commissions by five different artists
which is the most in all of new york here it's all people celebrating new year's it's
also the station you're most likely to be handed a flyer or given some kind of religious pamphlet
back in the day you could have walked through that door went right to the lobby and had
a drink at the bar and come back down and take in your train this passageway
opened last month in september and it provides a connection to the bryant park station and the
time square station with this beautiful arc it kind of looks like a lucha libre in mexico
you can actually walk between two different stations here the 7 train of bryant park for
the 7 train at times square without even paying and he said it's the only place in
new york city where that's even possible a lot of people think of times square and the
ace line like the older part of the station but this connector here the corridor there's
actually some cool things going on in this station that have even surprised me today
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let me know in the comments which is your favorite subway station in new
york city i'm curious thank you so much for watching as always until next time