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Viral video shows NYC apartment’s scary proximity to subway: ‘Hell’

These are railway apartments now!

The south facing pads at the corner of Broadway and Melrose Street in Brooklyn are so close to the platform at Myrtle Avenue metro stations, so tenants actually reach for the window and ring the J, M, Z trains in the past You can touch it.

The train pulls to the Myrtle Avenue metro station, just a foot away from the third and fourth floor apartments at the corner of Broadway and Melrose Street. JC Rice
The residential building, which opened in 2024, is located just a short distance from the Myrtle Avenue metro station. JC Rice

“I can't open the window,” said Arpit Ahluwalia, 26, who lives on the fourth floor of a Bushwick apartment and can see the subway car directly from her bedroom.

“I think you can walk on the truck when you open the window,” said Ahluwalia, who split the $4,000 rent with her two roommates.

Measurements taken with the post show that the platform barrier is just five feet away from the building, about 10 feet away when the train is pulled in.

Arpit Ahluwalia said she couldn't open the windows in her bedroom on the fourth floor. Leonardo Munoz
The fuss from the trains and streets below became “white noise” for Ahwaria. Leonardo Munoz

Luckily, the new building was designed to rub some of the noise on the outside, and the train became “white noise” six months later in the Big Apple in Philadelphia.

Many of the new tenants share his injustice, according to Diego Luna, manager of Mayan snack bars just below the apartment.

“About a month ago, they had a completely blown conversation with a guy on the other side of the platform, completely blown out of the window,” Luna said.

Workers at a Mayan snack bar can sense the train ringing every time Sparks jumps out of the truck and pass by. JC Rice

A Brooklyn real estate agent shared Video of a 3rd floor walk-up for $4,000 a month Right across from the December social media track and it went viral afterwards Over 7 million views.

“My client was looking for an apartment within a seven-minute walk from the train,” said Zalman Simpson, a Brooklyn real estate agent. “I showed them this and they signed it on the spot.”

Separate the edge of the platform by about five feet from a nearby building on the Broadway stretch in Brooklyn. JC Rice
The view from inside the train shows how close the car has come to the third floor window of the Melrose Street Apartment Building. JC Rice

The unit was then rented, but the tenants did not respond to the post reporter. Probably because he couldn't hear her knock.

For many people – the truck is too close to comfort.

“He's upselling the train just outside your window as a good thing,” the incredible New Yorker commented on Instagram.

“A $4K…pass to listen to trains day and night,” another said.

Several bedrooms in the Melrose Street building have a direct focus on the subway platform. Tenants say they need curtains. Leonardo Munoz

Construction was wrapped in the corner apartment building on the Bushwick and Bedford Stuyvesant border in late 2023, with tenants moving ever since.

The location was vacant until 2007 and was a smaller, abandoned building for the next few years, records show.

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