City Hall Subway Station

[@the.magic.catbus9459]

I rode through this station on accident one day. I was on the downtown 6 train distracted on my phone and listening to music. I looked up and the doors were closed and the train was pulling away from the last stop which is Brooklyn Bridge City Hall. I heard already and the train passes through the old City Hall station and comes out on the uptown track at the Brooklyn Bridge City Hall station before. But I was terrified that the train could be taken out of service and just go to a train yard. But thankfully it just turned around. The station was really creepy in the dark but very beautiful. No one notice me on the train luckily because I believe you can get a $100 ticket if you get caught. But also I think it could be easy to fight because a lot of the train speakers are old and broken (especially the older trains with the orange seats). If the train is old and doesn’t have a digital map You might be able to get away with it if you play like you don’t ride the train and that the speakers weren’t clear. 😂 They also never announce the consequences of staying on a train after the last stop.I completely went thru the tunnel on accident. You technically shouldn’t stay on any train passed the last stop. But if you do, stay on the train and don’t try to exit until it pulls into a station or a train yard where you can exit safely. You may get caught and fined but it’s better than risking your life.

[@kobyschechter8163]

I've ridden through the loop a few times and on August 20, 2019 I got the chance to actually explore the station with the NY Transit Museum. It was a day that I'll remember forever. The subway conductors are very nice and if you ask them if they're just turning around they'll usually let you ride through the loop. I would absolutely never jump off a moving train to get into the station that way. If you're caught that is a massive fine and you're charged with trespassing. I'm about to begin employment with the Metro North Railroad as a coach cleaner. I've been a train fanatic all my life and I'm super excited for this amazing opportunity.

[@Duchess444]

Also, WHY do we feel the need to keep "updating" things. This is beautiful! Who thought it was a good idea to "modernize" the subway tunnels? They could have maybe taken care of them and kept them up.

[@caroeldot]

Robin Mahaffey completely agree with you! I think that if this station would still be functioning, none of these beautiful tiles would have been kept. Maybe they would have updated that too

[@danielleschiazza6172]

It is sad that they let places like this rot! It is beautiful and I’m fascinated by the 1800’s and early 1900’s. The pneumatic station is amazing as well.

[@reneastle8447]

It won't be that way forever, the Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna give these stations a newly restored life.

[@zaknafein641]

What a waste, they should make this place a tourist attraction instead of forgetting it. PS. Beautiful architecture.

[@glow9706]

They're thinking about using it as an extension for the NY Transit Museum, but they would have to reroute the 6 train, among a host of other difficulties.

[@BenTheMiner]

You can go there as a tour.

[@elvenskill0]

IMHO that´s nonesense. In Madrid there is also another historic station which was closed. It was transformed into a museum kzbin.info/www/bejne/enuYkql8g7WtmdE If you look at 2'56'' you`ll see that the tracks are still used by the local transit system. They buit some glass walls to prevent any accident.

[@kirkreyes3368]

It really has no use in the modern subway system. When the city closed it in 1945, the IRT had extended their trains from five to ten cars. This made embarking and debarking impossible. Further, the station wasn’t being used much, so it made more sense to close it down. The transit museum still conducts tours down there. Keep in mind, too, that the MTA still uses the line to double the five and six trains back around to Brooklyn Bridge, so its use purely as a museum is not a viable option.

[@鉄道とおこぷれ大好きチャンネル]

City Hall station is beautiful

[@Trafficlight678]

This station can be re used. A gap filler system can be used. The gap filler system is manufactured by thyssenkrupp elevator INC. ThyssenKrupp is the same company that made moving platforms at south ferry and 14th street stations. They also specialize in passenger boarding bridges for airports and cruise terminals

[@GarnetCrow]

"SLIME!" "What?" "IT'S A RIVER OF SLIME!"

[@philiprambaran3188]

No, It takes you on a loop back uptown. And it's perfectly fine, just say to the conductor that you want to go uptown.

[@jesussavesnyc]

70% of this City Hall Train station was Build by Rafael Guastavino who also designed & build the Grand central terminal & many buildings & Catholic church's in New York City. Ppl don't Aknowledge him 4 his beautiful architects

[@DisasterOnline]

The Van Horne station was an interesting mixture, same architecture as the City Hall, and it had the experimental pneumatic transit system, based on the Beach Transit of 1870. Sad thing is that there's nothing left of it.

[@Mikebuster]

I don't know why I'm replying to an 8 year old comment but the van Horne station is a made up station from Ghostbusters 2. the Beach transit is what it was actually called.

[@TheNewYorkerRailfan]

This is that abandoned station in Manhattan after Brooklyn Bridge city hall. That station was used a short time. It was too short for the ten car R142a train so they had to shut it down around 1999.

[@AntoDamicoShow]

Just stay on the 6 train after it terminates at Brooklyn Bridge City Hall station and you will pass through it.

[@Duchess444]

Weren't there a few movies made in there? It looks very familiar

[@Martel4]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze.

[@Duchess444]

Thanks!

[@supered227]

Fantastic beasts and where to find them

[@brianmartinez5453]

Ghostbusters 2

[@Kilb-ill]

@@brianmartinez5453 ghostbusters 2 wasn't filmed there

[@musback]

I also seem to remember this from a Ghostbuster movie (with that slime flowing...?)

[@shallnoTfear]

You can see this if you stay on after the last stop. It is very dark tho so keep watching.

[@richhoule3462]

What is the font used for "City Hall" or in Ghostbusters II "Pneumatic Transit" on top of the tube?

[@VinceHere98]

Man, just like the high line, this station is now just here for looks.

[@xtrajunkful]

I went through the place while riding the loop at 1 pm. I noticed the skylights were filled in. Why? Also, 1:29 , that is awesome. Sad, but awesome. Would I be allowed to see that if I took a tour of the station.

[@BenTheMiner]

LOL that picture, though.

[@は私です彼の名前]

Even with all the 'Damage', it is still leap and bounds above MOST NYC subway platforms. I didn't see any mold stalactites or stalagmites.

[@pixelkatten]

Couldn't they just close off the tunnels and remake the station into a museum?

[@kirkreyes3368]

Not the way that the MTA uses it now. The loop is an effective way to double back the trains back uptown. The New York City Transit Museum does allow tours to the site, and such tours are sparing to prevent any vandalism, which is common in abandoned subway stations in New York.

[@atiboyful]

Was City Hall afraid of an attack from the tunnel below?

[@jdmifsud14]

They closed the station because 1. the newer trains at the time where longer and since the turn would leave a gigantic gap between the platform and train. 2. A station nearby called "brooklyn bridge-city hall" an express station got the majority of the riders. hence they later closed it off to the public. now the 6 train just uses it to turn their trains around after brooklyn bridge-city hall

[@BenTheMiner]

It is cool to have that station there.

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[@bullyinspace]

SLIMEEEEE. ITS A RIVER OF SLIME

[@AntoDamicoShow]

All of the above. I just got bailed out.

[@Tysexii516]

what happens if you stay on? Do you get stuck on the empty train, lost, in trouble, or arrested?

[@ggb123_17]

From what i understand, the train will just pass the abandoned station on the loop and then continue normal service

[@smoke283]

that is the station from tmnt 2

[@minerva2kutube]

Supernice

[@supersixbravo1610]

They should never broadcast things like this. There's a certain element in NY that doesn't respect or appreciate things like this and would love to deface these facades with spraypaint and vandalism. Just let it stay hidden and this "element" of society won't know where it is and destroy it.

[@captainkekistan8396]

Yep. Just look at the old South Ferry loop

[@CMSINFAMOUS]

I think it was a museum for some time but after 9/11, access was limited.

[@MGR99]

List25 brought me here

[@Etienne_H]

WAS an undiscovered station..

[@holland13100]

Thats just a shame that they dont use this anymore. If you look at other New York subwaystations those are all dirty and ugly.

[@doe26449]

dont u get in trouble for that though? also, when do fantrips come here?

[@Xwerty24x]

I have a feeling this was filmed in the 80s

[@VinceHere98]

B.K. Y. It looks like it. But this was filmed in the 2000's. early 2000's

[@kichigaiM]

Place looks like the home of the teenage mutant ninja turtles in movie 2. That lady even looks like 90's April.

[@Etienne_H]

NY Subway system needs restoration... rotten wooden support pillars?? In some stations I could hear the foot steps of the people of the station a floor above! That's scary. One day it'll all collapse if they don't do something about it.

[@TheNewYorkerRailfan]

Actually, it was abandon in 1955.

[@VinceHere98]

Manhattankid10 - The New Yorker Railfanner *1945

[@midwestdipper]

search "undercity new york city" he is amazing and goes into this station.

[@Tysexii516]

on what train the 6?

[@arielgonzalez5296]

Yes, indeed

[@MICHGO1]

FAR CRY FROM THE SHITTY UNWASHED SUBWAY STATIONS WE GET TO SEE EVERYDAY.

[@carlocabe4035]

Why don't use the area for something else?

[@jukingeo]

+carlo cabe They started to put a plan into effect to restore the station for the transit museum, but then the attacks of 911 happened and those plans were dropped, obviously there are security concerns.

[@SelmanAndyyy175]

Why did they close this?

[@VinceHere98]

Selman10 the platform was too small, and newer rolling stock couldn't fit in. It was also adjacent to the Brooklyn bridge station

[@rosannasmom1]

Low ridership also

[@idubbzz7790]

they should fix n re open the worth street station

[@VinceHere98]

Perry Haralambidis they can't. It's too close to the Brooklyn bridge station.

[@idubbzz7790]

yea but they keep closeing stop wtf we going to have

[@idubbzz7790]

they closed bowery bowerys not a stop where people dont go they go there mta is shit

[@idubbzz7790]

if mta had a clue they would invest in fixing chambers street station its a shit hole insted of stupid wite subway tiles that breat put up some fkin pourous stone tile

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

That's because they based the lair on this station.

[@arielgonzalez5296]

Kind of creepy station in my opinion.

[@6ixss]

dirt and exhaust gas

[@echolot]

01:37 why?

[@rudyebert4339]

very sad

[@matthewleon7300]

I heard it’s haunted

[@saez71]

....and what about the architect?