Secrets of New York

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Secrets of New York

New York’s Subway #6 trains ride all the way through Manhattan, making their way down …

New York’s Subway #6 trains ride all the way through Manhattan, making their way down from the Bronx to Brooklyn Bridge; if you stay on the train before it it starts its return trip uptown, it will actually make a turnaround through an abandoned station. The light gets dim, down there, but if you could have a good pair of infrared goggles you would see arches, skylights, colored glass tilework, and brass chandeliers.
The ghost station is called City Hall and it was opened back in 1904 as the showpiece of the Interborough Rapid Transit subway – which explains its unusually elegant Art Nouveau architectural style – and closed once and for all in 1954. In recent years, there were plans to re-open the station as an extension of the New York Transit Museum, but they were unfortunately shelved after 9/11, due to strict security measures.
Luckily, a few people managed to see the station and to take photographs; some of them can be found on the Web and are truly impressive. If you still want a live view, though, you’d better go back to those good old infrared goggles. Or maybe hope that curiosity will sooner or later overcome fear.

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