City Hall Station

The City Hall Station opened with the first Interborough Rapid Transit Trains in 1904.  This station served as the flagship of New York City subway.  Due to increased ridership, the IRT lengthened trains and could not expand the City Hall station to meet safety requirements.  You can no longer visit the vaulted ceilings or read the plaques.  The station was closed in 1945, and has since been left to some measure of obscurity.

There is a lot of this city that is not being explored, where layer over layer has covered our original landscape.  We frequent the crust, and dive down to tear through tunnels carved generations ago.  New lines are built, repair is constant.  The MTA reports 660 miles of track mostly beneath NY, and an estimated 120 more that are out of service.  While most of underground NY is frequented by the daily commuters, some places are left behind to share a rich history with only the train conductors at the end of the 6 line. 

Photo by Ben Simon

Ben Simon

Ben Simon

Ben Simon