City Hall
Lines:
BMT Broadway Line
List of closed areas:
City Hall is a station that was built with the vision of being an important transfer point between local trains (that would have terminated at this station) and express trains that would have continued downtown and into Brooklyn.
The current platform is only the upper level of a bi-level station. The lower level, which was not finished, has three tracks and two island platforms. Originally, it was intended for the tracks on this level to continue on the route the tracks on the upper level take downtown (and into Brooklyn). A change in plans led to the current setup and caused work on the lower level to halt. Today, the lower level is used to store mainly passenger trains.
In addition to a closed lower level platform, the station features a closed passageway to the Woolworth Building from the upper level platform's south end. This passageway was shuttered long ago in 1982 because of increasing crime at the time.
Pictures of the closed passageway and the closed platform can be viewed in the following galleries below:
BMT Broadway Line
List of closed areas:
- An unfinished lower level platform
- Closed passage at south end of platform to the Woolworth Building.
City Hall is a station that was built with the vision of being an important transfer point between local trains (that would have terminated at this station) and express trains that would have continued downtown and into Brooklyn.
The current platform is only the upper level of a bi-level station. The lower level, which was not finished, has three tracks and two island platforms. Originally, it was intended for the tracks on this level to continue on the route the tracks on the upper level take downtown (and into Brooklyn). A change in plans led to the current setup and caused work on the lower level to halt. Today, the lower level is used to store mainly passenger trains.
In addition to a closed lower level platform, the station features a closed passageway to the Woolworth Building from the upper level platform's south end. This passageway was shuttered long ago in 1982 because of increasing crime at the time.
Pictures of the closed passageway and the closed platform can be viewed in the following galleries below: