The Hanover Square station was an express station on the demolished

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. It had two tracks and one

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. The station was originally built in 1878 by the

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. The next stop to the north was Fulton Street. The next stop to the south was South Ferry. The station closed on December 22, 1950.

In popular culture

Hanover Square station is immortalised in the last movement of Orchestral Set No. 2 by Charles Ives, a recollection of the day the news broke that the liner the '' Lusitania'' had been sunk in 1915.

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External links

The Third Avenue Elevated (NYCSubway.org)
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