The City Hall Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line – a station that’s been abandoned since 1945 – is probably more popular to use as a backdrop in movies (and comic books) than any other. It’s really not a typical station: it’s much more ornate than most, it only has one platform because the trains run by on a loop, it had skylights, and because it has a vaulted roof, there are no columns on the platform. In short, it’s popular because it’s pretty.
Here’s a ghost train arriving at a subway station in the indie comic Adventureman:
And here’s City Hall Station under construction in 1903 or so:
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