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If you want to experience the City Hall station, your best bet is to get a Transit Museum membership, which costs between $35 and $50 a year.

Tickets cost $50 per person and sell out very quickly. Public tours have been offered by the New York Transit Museum about 16 times a year. Safety and security concerns are the main reasons why the MTA does not regularly open the space to the public. Secretly visiting the station is somewhere in the ‘grey’ area of legality. But it appears that MTA no longer strictly enforces the announcement that passengers leave the train at the Brooklyn Bridge station. Keep in mind that staying on the train isn’t officially legal. That’s when you can get a view of the station – be discreet. When the train departs the station it will pass through the (Secret/Hidden) City Hall Station. Stay on the train and duck down so as not to be easily spotted.When the train makes its final stop at the “Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall” station, passengers are told to exit the train.It is located beneath the magnificent Municipal Building at the intersection of Centre Street and Chambers Street. Because the downtown-bound 6 train must make a U-turn to head back uptown, the train makes a loop through this secret station. The station is at the end of the 6 train line which terminates at the “Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Station” in Lower Manhattan. How to visit the abandoned Old City Hall Station

In fact, befitting the elegance of the station, it was even the chosen place for hanging the commemorative plaques recognizing the achievement of building the underground train system. Unlike the rest of the line, City Hall featured tall tile arches, brass fixtures, and skylights that ran along the entire curve of the station - a sort of miniature Grand Central Station. The line, opened in 1904, was intended to be a showpiece and crown jewel of the new subway system. The City Hall Station was the original southern terminus of the first “Manhattan Main Line” built by the Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) Company.

Old City Hall Station is of the most architecturally stunning subway stations (by master artisan Rafael Guastavino) you’ve most likely never stepped foot in. A look inside the Hidden Subway Station in NYC, which has been shuttered since 1945.