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The City Hall station was the original southern terminal station of the first line.. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
The entrance to the station was from the inside of a building, and after the station was closed up, the connection was blocked off with a cinderblock wall. In 2007, the City allowed a developer that purchased the block above the station to demolish the access point to the station. A thick concrete wall now exists at the entrance to the platform.
Stations on the New York City Subway that no longer see revenue service; they may be intact but abandoned, or completely demolished, or anything in between. Subcategories This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total.
Abandoned subway stations make for fun travel destinations in New York City; Paris, France; Cincinnati, Ohio; London, England; and Toronto, Canada.
[2] [16] The station cost about $3 million to build, including $131,000 for the tilework. [16] This station began serving Crosstown Line trains on July 1, 1937, when the Crosstown Line was extended from Nassau Avenue. [17] From this station, northbound Fulton local trains were planned to continue to Court Street and terminate there.
Brooklyn: Bushwick: Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues: M July 20, 1889 [24] BMT Canarsie Line (L ) Station rebuilt to 3 tracks July 29, 1914; center track subsequently removed. Knickerbocker Avenue: M August 15, 1889 [25] [7] Station rebuilt to 3 tracks July 29, 1914; center track subsequently removed. Central Avenue: M July 20, 1889 [24]
The current New York City Transit Authority rail system map; Brooklyn is located on the bottom-center portion of the map. The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system that serves four of the five boroughs of New York City in the U.S. state of New York: the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
South of the Brooklyn Bridge station, there is a switch on the downtown local track, allowing trains to leave service and enter either of two storage tracks. Trains in service turn onto a balloon loop, continuing past the abandoned side platform on the west side of the loop, and returning to the Brooklyn Bridge station on the uptown local track ...