Talk:City Hall station (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)

message: I saw City Hall on Dec. 22nd. I stayed on the 6 and rode around. The station needs cleaning up, though. I wish I had a camera on me as well. --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 17:22, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt you could get very good pics from a 6 train. But yeah, I've done that before (pretended I was sleeping at Brooklyn Bridge … hehe), and it's pretty cool. Surprisingly short platforms, too. Larry V (talk | contribs) 21:21, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Same thing I did. When did you last see it? I bet people were wondering, "What the heck is that kid doing on that train?" But what matters is I saw the station after two years of reading about it at nycsubway.org and here. It is in dire need of cleaning up, however. I've got to get a camera/camera phone. I'm gonna look on eBay and see if I can get a good deal. After that, I'm gonna do a little touring and take some photos. :) --Imdanumber1 ( Talk | contribs) 02:35, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant, but... 

message: Was this not featured in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles film? --Criticalthinker (talk) 06:08, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It does feature in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film). 331dot (talk) 22:13, 13 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movies 

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message: City Hall, notwithstanding its architectural grandeur, was never an important station. In its final year of use, it served only 600 passengers per day[13] [...] during its final year of operation, only had about 800 riders per day. [..][13][2][14]
So 600 or 800?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.247.71.216 (talk) 23:15, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridership in last year 

message: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1DDqfMm5PE
2021 New York City mayoral election
Single-issue candidate Rebecca Loudhouse promises that if elected mayor of New York, subway riders may ride the loop to see the City Hall station.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:49, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joke mayoral campaign for providing access 

message: In the article it mentioned the proximity of the Brooklyn Bridge station that prevented the lengthening the platform at City Hall, that is very true. But in doing the expansion to South Ferry and into Brooklyn the IRT may have created the situation for low ridership:  The loop track brings a train to the uptown platform at Brooklyn Bridge.  If someone  boarding at City Hall wants to go  south (Fulton St, Wall St, Bowling Green, South Ferry or Brooklyn) they have to go upstairs at Brooklyn Bridge and then go downstairs to the downtown platform for the next downtown train.  On doing so they might miss a train or two. 
By walking in the street from City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge station (only a few minutes) they avoid all those extra stairs and possible missed downtown trains.
(Of course the opening of the BRT's City Hall station in 1918 did not help any).
I put this in Talk as I couldn't decide if it could go in the main article.  I won't complain if someone can find a way to fit it in.
Allan (talk) 15:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another possible reason for the reduction in ridership at the station 

message: The NY Transit Museum did not exist in 1965 so it could not propose using City Hall as a Museum.  The NYTM opened in 1976 as the NY Transit Exhibit and eventually became a formal Museum.
:Sounds good to me. However, the NYTM didn't reject the City Hall station in the 1970s - the rejection of the station came much later. – Epicgenius (talk) 23:06, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes on edits to the Post-closure section

message: I'm a civil engineer and I want to clarify some of the measurements used in the article.  For the track's radius of curvature, the article cites a NYT article which says "about 150 feet".  This figure is ok, but not precise enough to be used in further calcualtions.  The engineering plan found here (and also uploaded as an image in the article) shows a more precise radius of 147.25 feet.  Using this value, we get a smaller circumference of 925.20 feet.  
Now onto the platform.  The article mentions a platform length of 257 feet, but I cannot find a citation for that value in the article, nor could I find a reliable source to confirm that.   The NYT article mentions a platform length of 240 feet, although I'm not sure where that value comes from.  Using a high-res version of the engineering plans (linked above) I measured the outer edge of the platform in AutoCAD to have an arc length of 212 feet, and the inside of the platform with an arc length of about 228 feet.  
I haven't made any changes to the article in this regard, but I would like to put fourth the fact that some changes need to be made to these measurements.  If anyone has a reliable source on the platform length, then that would be a good place to start. –Dream out loud (talk) 08:52, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out @Dream out loud. I've removed the 257-foot figure as this is not sourced anywhere. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:12, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measurements of track and platform 

message: , I saw this (Wikipedia) article on the front page today, and it reminded me of this Post article from last week. The Post is not, of course, generally the best of sources, but perhaps there is something worth working in about the tours? --Usernameunique (talk) 01:25, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Usernameunique, thanks for the link. There's already some info about the tours in the History section (including the fact that tours of the station were suspended between 2020 and 2023). I think the only thing salvageable from the Post source is the fact that it sold 16 tickets this fall, which sold out in 20 minutes - but that might not be particularly worthy of encyclopedic mention. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:51, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2023 ''[[New York Post]]'' article