The shield was still across the end of the tunnel, intact except for small wooden parts. Some photos were taken showing the car and the tunnel. The one below appeared in the Annual Report of the Public Service Commission for the First District for 1912. The slight curve in the foreground would be the end of the turn from Warren Street into Broadway, built with iron rings, and therefore we are looking south into the bricklined straight section under Broadway. Hidden in the dark distance is the remains of the car and then the shield.
Nothing is said in any of the press articles about the station, and no photographs show it.
Since they detailed everything else, I am convinced the inspection team did not see it, and that the north end of the tunnel was walled off. This of course would also be the reason to enter through a shaft instead of simply walking in from the building and through the station. The sole room for doubt is that the north end of the tunnel is not described at all. Degnon engineers remarked on the solidness of the structure after so many years and suggested it might be as much work to remove it as it had been to build it. The New York Parcel Dispatch Company, which was the same as the Beach Pneumatic Transit Company after three name changes, brought a suit against the City for taking their property.