Welcome to the stunningly beautiful, but abandoned, New York City Hall station.
Abandoned for more than 70 yrs., it had chandeliers and beautiful leaded glass skylights.
But, by 1945, the newer, longer subway cars could no longer fit on the station鈥檚 curved tracks, so it was closed.
The City Hall station was designed by the architects Heins & LaFarge, notable for their work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Today, the ticket booths and wooden benches are gone, and many of the skylights are broken or still retain the tar that was used to black them out during WWII.聽
In addition to the Transit Museum鈥檚 tours, (you have to be a member and tickets sell out quickly), you can catch a glimpse of the subway station if you stay on the downtown 6 train after it leaves the Brooklyn Bridge station, as it will loop through the City Hall station to head back uptown.
They were going to widen it, but ridership fell off (well, of course it did, it was closed. Duh!)
I couldn鈥檛 make individual gifs of this whole this so MADE A VIDJEW FOR YEW GOIS ! I didn鈥檛 know what else to make of my animation, so I decided to make it into a little quick tutorial. Hope it helps!
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