Urban explorer caught trespassing in subway with loaded pistol: cops

Police arrested an “urban explorer” spotted successful an abandoned Manhattan subway passageway aft officers recovered him equipped with a loaded pistol, cops said Thursday.

Officers caught 19-year-old Jaiden Johnson successful an off-limits conception of the No. 4 enactment adjacent the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall halt successful the Financial District astir 4:25 p.m. Saturday.

After searching Johnson, constabulary discovered helium was equipped with a Cobra semi-automatic pistol, the NYPD tweeted pursuing the arrest.

“An municipality explorer recovered himself successful blistery h2o recently, erstwhile helium was discovered trespassing successful an off-limits underground location,” work a tweet from the NYPD Chief of Transit account. “He made rather the stink erstwhile officers handcuffed him, and we soon learned wherefore — helium was carrying this loaded gun.”

The Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station is located adjacent the City Hall Station, an abandoned halt on the IRT enactment and a fashionable destination for transit enthusiasts.

Decommissioned successful 1945 for deficiency of use, the City Hall stop is nevertheless admired for its Romanesque Revival architecture characterized by vaulted ceilings, Guastavino tilework, skylights and brass chandeliers.

The New York Transit Museum provides sanctioned tours of the City Hall Station 3 times a year, offering the lone ineligible mode to measurement ft wrong the abandoned stop.

Southbound No. 6 bid straphangers consenting to hold astatine the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall Station, however, tin drawback a glimpse of the aged City Hall halt arsenic the bid switches implicit to the northbound tracks.