Ghosts of Buffalo, NY: New York Central Terminal (part 1)

[snoebay88]

Passed thru this station many a time in the 50's and early 60's on my way to visit family in Buffalo. It's a shame that it can't be preserved.

[MsMaggieOC]

Who/what is responsible for this? The person/ppl who knocked down that statue is a piece of shit and is probably in jail right now getting what they deserve ....for being a waste of life piece of shit....

[Alcofoamer]

@1:52, when did 2816 come through?

[tprdfh51]

I see the same loss when I go by the NYC terminal in Detroit...part of the same system. Ya, Manny owns it...but he don't give a shit about what it means to the city of Detroit or the American people black or white!

[DeathTripp666]

@tprdfh51 guess south bends NYC station was spared as it is privately owned now and there is talks of Amtrak buying it to make it there station in Indiana

[tprdfh51]

These are the Tintern Abbeys - the Exeter Cathedrals of your time...no nation can endure such losses forever.

[kentwesterly]

What a shame such a pretty building

[tprdfh51]

If I could, I would kneel before the last buffalo and pray for you all.

[wart2356]

HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE SHAFT

[ravenfaust6669]

i was there last nite and fell into a hole :X

[firestorm919]

lol ive been there to party

[tprdfh51]

You bastards...you killed the last buffalo!

[bluestraw1999]

Omggg. I live in bf

[candygirl42245]

I help clean place up.

[66Bflo]

Lofts, a green business incubator and rail travel are all part of the mix envisioned for restoring the Central Terminal.

The $75 million plan, being unveiled today (3-10-11) by the all-volunteer Central Terminal Restoration Corp., is the first to spell out broad uses for the 523,000-square-foot art deco tower, concourse and baggage room on Buffalo's East Side, where Amtrak pulled out of the station for the final time in October 1979.

[MarkieBhoy17]

I REMEBER THIS FROM THE TAPS SHOW

[uzicanvas]

Such a waste. I used to drive trucks in & out of this building in the early 80's.

[aquaeyes11010]

Yet more proof that this city's time has come and gone.

[sabresrock234]

@aquaeyes11010 no sir, this is a new begining for Buffalo

[XXXBMXORDIEXXX]

i live no to far from here this is a very historical building scifies ghost hunters have arrived here before

[EconCat88]

Another urban dump.

[mljbct89]

lol most if not all of these shots are on the corporation website or personal ones anyway.

[dennisburton41]

what a waste.what an eyesore

[tprdfh51]

The last buffalo...the bastards - they shouldn't have destroyed the last buffalo! Don't they now they will be cursed forever?

[cforssi]

I think it has been fixed up a bit since this was made. The volunteers have been doing some work here and there and it is not as depressing as these photos would have you believe. Excellent film and most entertaining. Thank you!

[cmdrflake]

Heartbreaking. It has been a ruin longer than it has been a useful edifice of travel and commerce. But, that's Buffalo for you.

[loopydloop]

Now, this is one of the best, and most professional, group of photographs of BCT presented on YouTube. Thank you.

[JORDANWASAGEM]

why can't they refurbish this and make train travel as efficient as it is in europe to give us another option? years ago a very nice way to travel. What a beautiful architectural gem.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@JORDANWASAGEM because New York State is broke. the Central Terminal Restoration Corporation is trying to fix it up...

[LeahDerendaProduct]

i heard they might be put back in buisness

[peak199]

I used to party in that building in the 80's and 90's.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 so you ruined it too? or did you just party and not break windows and steal stuff?

[peak199]

@Sabres21Buffalo I never stole anything from there,or broke any windows.Honestly,there were none left to break back then.We just wanted a cool place to hang out away from my friends girlfriend for a while.We'd just drink some beer and smoke some weed back then in that building.I can varify one thing.....that building is haunted,just like other people claim.I never believed in ghosts or spirits,until I went in there-in broad daylight.( and sober).Spend the night in there,you'll see what I mean.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 ok thats cool i guess lol. i bet it is haunted and i would go in there at night if i could.

[peak199]

@Sabres21Buffalo I say it's haunted because we went in there to party a little before we watched a bills game.When we were walking down near the main lobby,we saw 12 to 15 people at the far end of the hallway.We thought they were crack heads or homeless people.We dicided to go to another area.Then,instantly, they all just vanished.All 4 of us saw the same thing.So we left,and when we looked back from outside,there were people watching us from all of those broken windows.It was insane.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 really? wow. did anything else look different? did the terminal itself look different?

[peak199]

@Sabres21Buffalo no.The building was the same.Back then it was completely neglected.I haven't told many people the ghost thing(not many in person),because it sounds crazy.I never believed in ghosts before that.But there were so many people walking at the far end of the hall,we all talked about going to a different part of the building.Then they all were just gone and there wasn't anyone in there at all.I wasn't to surprised to see this building on a ghost type of T.V show!

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 well i heard that on the 2nd floor there use to be a water fountain and its obviously not there anymore but i heard stories that some people look at it now and they have seen people stand in line and wait to drink from it they felt like they went back in time for a few seconds and saw the Terminal in its glory days but when they turned to see more i guess everything just vanished.

[peak199]

@Sabres21Buffalo Yeah,I saw that on one of those ghost shows.I have been in there 30 or 40 times,and only twice did I see anything crazy.One other time,we saw a bunch of people looking at us from the windows before we went in.The funny thing is,both times,all 4 of us saw the same thing at the same time,and we actually had a conversation about it.I'd like to go back in there now and spend the night in there to see if it is the same.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 wow.

i dont know if you've heard but the CTRC has boarded and secured most of the building so it would be impossible to enter the main concourse unless you go to an event or something. you should go and check it out on a Saturday morning. thats when we work on the building.

[peak199]

@Sabres21Buffalo I live in florida now,so I won't be seeing that building anytime soon.

[Sabres21Buffalo]

@peak199 oh ok lol

[tprdfh51]

...my bad, I said Cromwell's Forces and should have said the insatiable King Henry the 8th who raised the roof for the valuable lead it contained which he then added to his treasury. Hmmm, sounds like a familiar refrain!

[tprdfh51]

When I was a younger man I visited the abandoned Tintern Abbey in Great Britain...how this looks so much like that cathedral that was destroyed by Cromwell's forces in the 1400's.

[tprdfh51]

How could man have built such a monument...only to abandon it for no reason?

[tprdfh51]

If Iron Man were to take his revenge, this is where he would start.

[guitarist253]

Would you like to rent an apartment nearby? I have one-contact me if so!!

[nbtrainlvr94]

I have question if you all are saying that the airport willl close and stuff in buffalo um will the city even survive or will it just become a thing of the past like evrything else?

[Spelunker0211]

It looks like pictures from the incident in Cherynoble

[MsC1953]

Just imagine hundreds of people working here - this terminal handled freight and passenger service and all the paperwork involved in that. The offices were full of men and women, the station itself full of small businesses. Cars, trucks, buses, taxis coming and going. Now look at her. She was grand. I traveled in and out from here in the early 70's - she was quiet by then with just a few trains a day, but still in decent shape. Still a small diner, news stand and taxi stand. Great photos!

[tprdfh51]

From public transit and trains - to private automobiles and roads...what a graveyard we have created.

[intercityrailpal]

Oh, I wish this was so. But the world of lobbys on K street Washsington ......kick backs, pay-offs,back room deals, black mail. You know highway and airline lobbys, with their overseas investors. They know how to get the money out of Washington. And what Washington invests in that's what you get. We don't have good trains, because we never invested in them.

[EricN113]

2 bad b-low is poor

[tprdfh51]

Because the captains of industry keep shucking good paying jobs overseas so they can reap the benefits at the expense of communities like Buffalo...once a beacon of commerce and industry at the head of the Great Lakes.

[TheUniverse3000]

I'm originally from Buffalo. I plan to go back someday :)

[Scherer321]

they should make it a bullet train terminal

[intercityrailpal]

Yes, they should. Did you know untill the recession of 2008-2009 Amtrak turned away more people than they carried? That was with the poor service we have now. The trains have reservations...cause without them people would be sitting on the floor or turned away at the station. It happened in 1973. You know Amtrak distroyed all the extra cars years ago. (So they didn't have to run them) The old railroads never did this.

[yourweathertodayHD]

if they are gonna spend my money wherever the hell they want, this is one of the few places I'm ok with....there really is no demand for a high speed rail line between Buffalo and Albany...even with NYC and Chicago and Boston...the planes are still faster....still, Amtrak, if they are gonna spend money, should make this the PRIMARY station for Buffalo, not the Amshack under the interstate or the "crapform" in Depew...use this old beauty...and the lines are too busy, steam excursion not happening

[intercityrailpal]

The taxes on the train tickets and on the terminal were used to build the Buffalo airport. But in a few years it too will be empty. As oil prices go back up the airlines will disappear. Most of the air service will be gone! Think about that! 8 major airports generate 90% of thed air travel the rest have little or no business already. But they have great lobbys in Washington.

[intercityrailpal]

"Your" money is spent on waterways,airports and roads. Why not Railports? If you want to have Amtrak make money you run more trains. Not less. Amtrak's biggest loser is "The Sunset Limited" it has high fixed costs like stations. And allocated cost of the NEC commuter trains. But it only runs 3 days a week with 7 days of expenses. Everytime you cut a train you cut your income. The mail also should go back to the trains.

[ICDave]

I was just there last week.. it's such a beautiful building. I really wish it could be restored and re-used.