The City Hall station was a station on the

IRT Second Avenue Line The IRT Second Avenue Line, also known as the Second Avenue Elevated or Second Avenue El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan, New York City, United States, from 1878 to 1942. It was operated by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company until 194 ...

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, which also served trains of the

IRT Third Avenue Line The IRT Third Avenue Line, commonly known as the Third Avenue Elevated, Third Avenue El, or Bronx El, was an elevated railway in Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City. Originally operated by the New York Elevated Railway, an independent railwa ...

. It lay along Park Row, south of the

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, across the street from the BRT’s

Park Row Terminal The Park Row station was a major elevated railway terminal constructed on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, across from New York City Hall and the IRT’s elevated City Hall station. It served as the terminal for BMT services operating ...

.City Hall / Park Row Complex
/ref> It had 2 levels. The lower level served Third Avenue trains and had two tracks with two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s for exiting passengers, and a center

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

for entering passengers. The upper level served Second Avenue trains and had two tracks and two

s for exiting passengers, and one

for entering passengers. Second Avenue trains served the station until June 13, 1942, and Third Avenue trains served the station until December 31, 1953. The next stop to the north was

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for all trains.

References

City Hall Elevated Station (NYCSubway.org)
IRT Third Avenue Line stations IRT Second Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1879 Railway stations closed in 1953 1879 establishments in New York (state) 1953 disestablishments in New York (state) Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Defunct New York City Subway stations located aboveground {{Manhattan-railstation-stub