(rshsdepot) City Hall Station, New York City

["Bernie Wagenblast" <brwagenblast_@_comcast.net>]

From today's Daily News.

Bernie Wagenblast
Transportation Communications Newsletter
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications

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      Old subway entrance to reopen, then close




      City Hall has a new - well, actually old - subway entrance.
      To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the subway system, transit 
officials have begun constructing a temporary entrance to the original City 
Hall Station - or Loop Station, as it was known - on the west side of City 
Hall Plaza.

      The temporary entrance will be used by Mayor Bloomberg and other 
dignitaries at a centennial celebration this month. It will be taken down 
afterward.

      On Oct. 27, 1904, Mayor George McClellan pushed a silver control 
handle on the system's first train, inaugurating subway service in New York. 
The Interborough Rapid Transit Subway, or IRT, ran from City Hall to 145th 
St. and Broadway.

      The construction of the temporary entrance is being funded by private 
donations to the New York Transit Museum.


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