City Hall (BMT Broadway Line)

City Hall
City Hall
	New York City Subway rapid transit station
	The renovated platform; the wall on the right is for maintenance closets
Station statistics
Address	Murray Street & Broadway; New York, NY 10007
Borough	Manhattan
Locale	Civic Center, Tribeca
Coordinates	40°42′48″N 74°00′25″W / 40.71324°N 74.007082°WCoordinates: 40°42′48″N 74°00′25″W / 40.71324°N 74.007082°W
Division	B (BMT)
Line	BMT Broadway Line
Services	N (late nights); R (all except late nights); W (weekdays only)
Transit connections	NYCT Bus: M9, M22, M55, M103, X27, X28
Structure	Underground
Levels	2 (lower level not for passenger service)
Platforms	2 island platforms (1 on upper level, 1 on lower level)
Tracks	5 (2 on upper level, 3 on lower level)
Other information
Opened	January 5, 1918[1]
Station code	020[2]
Wireless service	[3]
Traffic
Passengers (2017)	2,258,254[4] 14.2%
Rank	220 out of 425
Station succession
Next north	Canal Street: N R W
Next south	Cortlandt Street: N R W
Location
Street map
Station service legend
Symbol	Description
	Stops all times except late nights
	Stops weekdays only
	Stops late nights only

City Hall is a local station on the BMT Broadway Line of the New York City Subway in Tribeca and Civic Center, Manhattan. It is served by the R train at all times except late nights, when the N train takes over service. The W train also serves this station on weekdays.

Station layout

G

Street Level

Exit / Entrance

1
Upper
platform

Northbound
Track B2

←

toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (Canal Street)
←

weekdays (

late nights) toward Ditmars Boulevard (Canal Street)

Island platform, doors will open on the left

Fare control, station agent, exits/entrances, stairways to lower level

Island platform, doors will open on the left

Southbound
Track B1

→

toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Cortlandt Street) →
→

toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue late nights (Cortlandt Street) →
→

towards Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Cortlandt Street)→

2

Mezzanine

Storage area

3
Lower
platform

Track B4

→ No regular service (used for work trains)

Uncompleted island platform, not in service

Track BM

→ No regular service (revenue service layups)

Island platform, not in service

Track B3

→ No regular service (revenue service layups)

Track layout

to Canal St

Superimposed track section

(Left tracks above right ones)

to Cortlandt St

Lower level tracks (powered)

Lower level tracks (unpowered)

Upper level tracks

Murray Street stair (Note:

service discontinued from 2010 to 2016.)

Upper level

There are two tracks and a very wide island platform. The northbound track is located under City Hall Park, while the southbound track is under the east side of Broadway.

There is an active tower at the north end, with a window that lets any waiting passengers observe Transit Authority goings-on. The platform tapers off toward the southern end, where the northbound and southbound portions join. The station's configuration, and the wide-open staircases to the sky above, is responsible for another distinguishing feature: the number of birds that fly into and around the station.

This station was overhauled in the late 1970s, changing the station's structure and overall appearance. It replaced the original wall tiles, old signs, and incandescent lighting with more modern wall tiles, signs and fluorescent lights, as well as fixing staircases and platform edges.

Southern end of platform

Before the new City Hall master tower was built, there was a provision at the north end of the upper level for a diamond crossover (which has existed since the construction of this station, when the upper level platform was to be a terminal) which is now occupied by a relay room. At the south end of the station, the uptown track curves away from the wall; this dates from the original construction when the upper level was converted from a terminal, with presumably a straight line, to a through station with a single two-track tunnel.^[5]

Immediately south of this station, the line utilizes a sharp reverse curve, first turning west under Vesey Street, then turning south under Church Street toward Cortlandt Street.^[6]

Exits

The fare control area is located in the center of the platform and fenced off from the rest of the platform area, has exits on either end. At the north end, two exits lead to the east side of Broadway at Warren Street, and at the south end, one exit leads to the east side of Broadway at Murray Street. Passengers enter from the sidewalk adjacent to City Hall Park directly onto the wide island platform on the upper level.^[7]

Lower level

Staircase to the lower level

The City Hall station is a bi-level station, with an unused two-island platform, three-track lower level reachable from a single staircase from about the center of the in-use upper platform. The staircase leads to the western platform; the eastern platform was never finished and does not have a usable stairway. The middle track in the lower level station was to be used for short turns from either direction depending on the service pattern, with a layout much like that at Whitehall Street–South Ferry station further south.

It was initially intended that the local trains were to terminate on the upper level, while the express trains using the lower level would continue on through lower Manhattan and then through the Montague Street Tunnel. However, plans were changed before construction ended. As a result, the lower level of the station is unused (except for non-rush hour storage of trains), as are the stub-end center express tracks at Canal Street on its upper level (the connections to which were instead "temporarily" rerouted to the Manhattan Bridge for service across that bridge). Another effect of this change is that the southern end of the upper level station slopes downward. This is a result of platform lengthening and rerouting the upper level downward toward the south, rather than letting the lower level stay at the same elevation and continue south through lower Manhattan. The lower level floor continues south of the station until it disappears under the increasingly low ceiling under the ramps carrying the upper level downgrade.^[8] The lower level was never used for passenger service or even finished with tiles and signage. Only the western platform was fully completed; the shorter eastern platform was never finished.

The lower level is only long enough to store 480-foot-long (150 m) 8-car trains, with cars of 60 feet (18 m) lengths, like the platforms in the BMT Eastern Division. Only two of the three tracks are usable: the westernmost and the center tracks, which are used to store trains. The easternmost track on the lower level is unusable as it has no third rail; it was removed at an unknown date.^[9]

Lower Manhattan transit

1 Franklin Street

Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall 4 5 (

6 )

1 2 3 Chambers Street

Chambers Street J Z

A C (

E ) Chambers Street–WTC

City Hall R W

2 3 Park Place

1 WTC Cortlandt

Cortlandt Street R W

(

HOB NWK ) World Trade Center

Fulton Street 2 3 4 5 A C J Z

1 Rector Street

Rector Street R W

4 5 Wall Street

Wall Street 2 3

4 5 Bowling Green

Broad Street (

J Z )

R (

1 W ) South Ferry/Whitehall Street

Whitehall Terminal

South Ferry loops

In popular culture

In Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro's novel 'The Strain, it is by trekking through the disused City Hall station's lower levels that Dr. Goodweather, Setrakian and Fet find their way towards the Master's lair.^[10] Though not mentioned by name, the station also appears in episode 11 of the TV series' first season.

References

↑ The New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918
↑ "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
↑ "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved May 18, 2016.
↑ "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
↑ http://images.nycsubway.org/i1000/img_1228.jpg
↑ Dougherty, Peter (2018). Tracks of the New York City Subway 2018 (16th ed.). Dougherty.
↑ "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.
↑ http://ltvsquad.com/2014/06/16/tomb-of-the-unnamed-repent-tunnel/
↑ http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?31845
↑ Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro, The Strain. ISBN 006-1-5582-3-0. 2009, pp. 360—385

External links

nycsubway.org – BMT Broadway Subway: City Hall
Station Reporter — N Train
Station Reporter — R Train
Abandoned Stations — City Hall (BMT) lower level
Broadway and Murray Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Broadway and Warren Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
Platform from Google Maps Street View

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[42nd-1] The New York Times, Open New Subway to Times Square, January 6, 1918

[stationinformation-2] "Station Developers' Information". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Retrieved June 13, 2017.

[wifi-3] "NYC Subway Wireless – Active Stations". Transit Wireless Wifi. Retrieved May 18, 2016.

[4] "Facts and Figures: Annual Subway Ridership 2012–2017". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. July 12, 2018. Retrieved July 12, 2018.

[5] ttp://images.nycsubway.org/i1000/img_1228.jpg

[tracks-6] Dougherty, Peter (2018). Tracks of the New York City Subway 2018 (16th ed.). Dougherty.

[maps-7] "MTA Neighborhood Maps: Lower Manhattan" (PDF). mta.info. Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2015. Retrieved August 21, 2015.

[8] ttp://ltvsquad.com/2014/06/16/tomb-of-the-unnamed-repent-tunnel/

[9] ttp://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?31845

[10] Chuck Hogan & Guillermo del Toro, The Strain. ISBN 006-1-5582-3-0. 2009, pp. 360—385

Stations of the New York City Subway, by service
Broadway Local	71st Avenue 67th Avenue 63rd Drive–Rego Park Woodhaven Boulevard Grand Avenue–Newtown Elmhurst Avenue Jackson Heights–Roosevelt Avenue 65th Street Northern Boulevard 46th Street Steinway Street 36th Street–Northern Boulevard Queens Plaza Lexington Avenue/59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street 57th Street–Seventh Avenue 49th Street Times Square–42nd Street 34th Street–Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Eighth Street–New York University Prince Street Canal Street City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry–Whitehall Street Court Street Jay Street–MetroTech DeKalb Avenue Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center Union Street Ninth Street Prospect Avenue 25th Street 36th Street–Fourth Avenue 45th Street 53rd Street 59th Street–Fourth Avenue Bay Ridge Avenue 77th Street 86th Street Bay Ridge–95th Street
Broadway Local	Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard Astoria Boulevard 30th Avenue Broadway 36th Avenue 39th Avenue Queensboro Plaza Lexington Avenue/59th Street Fifth Avenue–59th Street 57th Street–Seventh Avenue 49th Street Times Square–42nd Street 34th Street–Herald Square 28th Street 23rd Street 14th Street Eighth Street–New York University Prince Street Canal Street City Hall Cortlandt Street Rector Street South Ferry–Whitehall Street
See also Lists by borough (The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens) Accessible Closed Terminals Transfer Commons category Note: Service variations, station closures, and reroutes are not reflected here. Stations with asterisks have no regular peak, reverse peak, or midday service on that route. See linked articles for more information.