Train enthusiast Dj Hammers got a chance to film the entire length of a subway line, as seen by the conductor through the front window of the train. It's a fantastic look at the tunnels, and a side of the subway system that we rarely get to see.

FULL footage from the Driver's perspective of a Nostalgia Trip on the Low-V cars throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. This footage will be used to assist in the creation of content for the train simulator program used at the NY Transit Museum, and as B-Roll footage for future content.

The full video is over 1 hour 15 minutes long, and includes shots of the old City Hall station turnaround, underground tunnels, elevated lines, and tons of stations.

The map of Brooklyn is kind of hard to wrap your head around. It's the second largest of New York City's five boroughs, making it three times bigger than Manhattan. Brooklyn is huge. Brooklyn is huge thanks to the grid pattern covering most of it. Manhattan is pretty easy to make sense of, but Brooklyn does not have that same luxury. The streets here are not regular. Brooklyn is basically what Manhattan would have been had there been no 1811 Commissioners Plan. As I started looking at Old maps of Brooklyn, I realized that there's actually a bigger story here and it's about the growth of New York City so I want to look at several features on this map that tell that story.

As one of the oldest sandwich shops in New York City, Defonte’s has been a top destination for Italian American sandwiches for more than 100 years. Originally purchased in 1922 by Nick Defonte for only $100, the shop sits in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood that has evolved over time: Once labeled one of the "worst" neighborhoods in America by LIFE Magazine in the 1990s, it sustained heavy damage during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 and is now home to a growing number of high rises. And yet, Defonte’s has stayed very much the same through it all, a cash-only spot buzzing with energy and a requisite picture wall of famous and notable Italians.

Follow the owner Larry Demonte and Anthony, one of his sons, and meet the “Chenzo 13” sandwich. Named after Larry’s eldest son Vicent, who passed away in 2021, the “Chenzo 13” quickly became a new favorite on the Defonte’s sandwich roster.