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[[Image:CityHall300pxImage.jpg|thumb|300px|The City Hall IRT station]]This station started construction in 1900 as a showplace station for New York City's first subway project. It was in service from 1904 to 1945, at which time -- due to declining rider numbers caused by the greater convenience of other nearby stations -- it was closed. Its beautiful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guastavino_tile Guastivino arches and tilework] have languished for a long time in near-darkness, its skylights still wearing the blackout paint applied to them during World War II. | [[Image:CityHall300pxImage.jpg|thumb|300px|The City Hall IRT station]]This station started construction in 1900 as a showplace station for New York City's first subway project. It was in service from 1904 to 1945, at which time -- due to declining rider numbers caused by the greater convenience of other nearby stations -- it was closed. Its beautiful [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guastavino_tile Guastivino arches and tilework] have languished for a long time in near-darkness, its skylights still wearing the blackout paint applied to them during World War II. | ||
| − | Though an alert subway rider can still catch a glimpse of the old station while riding | + | Though an alert (and sneaky) subway rider can still catch a glimpse of the old station while riding a late-night number 6 train through the "turn-around" loop at the end of the line, there are no tours or other ways to see the place except through various online photo collections. (And normally riders are not allowed on the trains while they're being turned around in the loop, so sneaking on or otherwise hiding is required. ''And not recommended.'') Some images, and more information about the station's history and architecture, can be found at its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Hall_%28IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line_station%29 Wikipedia entry.] |
Probably the best of the independent online photo collections is at [http://www.nycsubway.org/irt/eastside/irt-eastside-cityhall.html the New York Subway website;] though it would also be a mistake to miss [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/cityirt.html City Hall Station's entry] at Joseph Brennan's labor-of-love website, [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/ Abandoned New York]. This site also covers many other lost or strayed parts of New York's rapid transit system. (See also the "Forgotten New York" site [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/City%20Hall%20Station/cityhall.html here,] and (ranging a little further afield) [http://www.modern-ruins.com/links/ the links page] at [http://www.modern-ruins.com/ Modern Ruins.] ([[SYWTBAW]]) | Probably the best of the independent online photo collections is at [http://www.nycsubway.org/irt/eastside/irt-eastside-cityhall.html the New York Subway website;] though it would also be a mistake to miss [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/cityirt.html City Hall Station's entry] at Joseph Brennan's labor-of-love website, [http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/ Abandoned New York]. This site also covers many other lost or strayed parts of New York's rapid transit system. (See also the "Forgotten New York" site [http://www.forgotten-ny.com/SUBWAYS/City%20Hall%20Station/cityhall.html here,] and (ranging a little further afield) [http://www.modern-ruins.com/links/ the links page] at [http://www.modern-ruins.com/ Modern Ruins.] ([[SYWTBAW]]) | ||
(See also: [[Subterranean ecologies]]: [[New York urban ecologies]]: [[Lexington Avenue local]].) | (See also: [[Subterranean ecologies]]: [[New York urban ecologies]]: [[Lexington Avenue local]].) | ||
Revision as of 13:14, 22 October 2005
The Dark Manhattan's version of what (in our home universe) is the abandoned IRT station at City Hall: the area where Nita and Kit find the Eldest and the Book of Night with Moon.
This station started construction in 1900 as a showplace station for New York City's first subway project. It was in service from 1904 to 1945, at which time -- due to declining rider numbers caused by the greater convenience of other nearby stations -- it was closed. Its beautiful Guastivino arches and tilework have languished for a long time in near-darkness, its skylights still wearing the blackout paint applied to them during World War II.
Though an alert (and sneaky) subway rider can still catch a glimpse of the old station while riding a late-night number 6 train through the "turn-around" loop at the end of the line, there are no tours or other ways to see the place except through various online photo collections. (And normally riders are not allowed on the trains while they're being turned around in the loop, so sneaking on or otherwise hiding is required. And not recommended.) Some images, and more information about the station's history and architecture, can be found at its Wikipedia entry.
Probably the best of the independent online photo collections is at the New York Subway website; though it would also be a mistake to miss City Hall Station's entry at Joseph Brennan's labor-of-love website, Abandoned New York. This site also covers many other lost or strayed parts of New York's rapid transit system. (See also the "Forgotten New York" site here, and (ranging a little further afield) the links page at Modern Ruins. (SYWTBAW)
(See also: Subterranean ecologies: New York urban ecologies: Lexington Avenue local.)