Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street station
The Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street station is a New York City Subway station complex in Lower Manhattan. The complex is served by trains of the IRT Lexington Avenue Line and the BMT Nassau Street Line. The station is served by the 4, 6, and J trains at all times; the 5 train at all times except late nights; the <6> train during weekdays in the peak direction; and the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction.
The complex comprises two stations, Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall and Chambers Street. The Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station was built for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), and was an express station on the city's first subway line. The station opened on October 27, 1904, as one of the original 28 stations of the New York City Subway. The Chambers Street station was built for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (later the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, or BMT) as part of the Dual Contracts. The Nassau Street Line station opened on August 4, 1913. Over the years, several modifications have been made to both stations, which were connected within a single fare control area in 1948.
The Lexington Avenue Line's Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall station, under Centre Street, has two island platforms, two side platforms, and four tracks; the side platforms are not in use. The Nassau Street Line's Chambers Street station, under the Manhattan Municipal Building, has three island platforms, one side platform, and four tracks; only the outer tracks and two of the island platforms are in use. The complex contains elevators that make it compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Chambers Street 
Underground
3 island platforms (1 disused), 2 side platforms (1 demolished, 1 disused)
4 (2 in regular service)
August 4, 1913[89]
Yes
New York City Subway System MPS
July 6, 2005
Park Row & Centre Street
New York, NY
Underground
2 island platforms (in service)
cross-platform interchange
2 side platforms (abandoned)
4
October 27, 1904[23]
Yes
Brooklyn Bridge–Chambers Street
Chambers Street-City Hall
Brooklyn Bridge-Worth Street
New York City Subway System MPS
July 6, 2005
Ridership[edit]
As a major hub for the IRT and BMT, the Brooklyn Bridge and Chambers Street complex was the subway system's busiest station when it was built.[157][158] The opening of the IRT station relieved congestion at Park Row Terminal and the City Hall station, two nearby elevated stations.[159] The Brooklyn Bridge station served 18 million passengers a year during the 1910s, amounting to about 50,000 passengers a day.[160] When the Chambers Street station opened, it also suffered from overcrowding.[102] The Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street complex was surpassed as the network's busiest station by the Times Square complex in 1923.[161] Even so, the complex recorded nearly 30 million annual passengers in the mid-1920s, while the nearby elevated stations counted another 20 million.[157][158]
Comparatively few passengers transferred at the Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street station, in part because it was easier for BMT passengers to transfer to the IRT at the Canal Street station.[162] By 1930, the Brooklyn Bridge station had 16 million passengers, compared to 12 million at the Chambers Street station.[163] The high ridership at the complex contributed to the closure of the IRT's City Hall Loop in 1945, when the Brooklyn Bridge station still had 14 million annual passengers.[164] By contrast, ridership at the Chambers Street station declined significantly as development in Manhattan moved further northward.[120] The number of passengers entering the Brooklyn Bridge/Chambers Street station declined to about 7.2 million in 1963 and remained almost unchanged in 1973.[165]
By 2011, the Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street station was the 29th-busiest in the system; at the time, an average of 36,350 riders entered the station every weekday.[166] In 2019, the station had 9,065,146 boardings, making it the 32nd most-used station in the 423-station system. This amounted to an average of 30,961 passengers per weekday.[167] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, ridership dropped drastically in 2020, with 2,710,023 passengers entering the station that year.[168] The station had 3,147,136 passengers in 2021,[169] and in 2022, ridership increased to 5,050,750.[170]
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