Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City Subway) Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street (New York City Subway) Brooklyn Bridge–City Hall/Chambers Street 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 following services stop at this station: Chambers Street on the BMT Nassau Street Line is located at the intersection of Centre and Chambers Streets beneath the Manhattan Municipal Building. The station has four tracks, three island platforms, and one side platform (originally two). The southbound platform is slightly higher at the southern end of the station because the
Brooklyn Bridge (Gleizes) most treasured themes: "the city which draws life from the river". Already, in his 1913 publication "The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations", Guillaume Apollinaire drew parallels between the work of Gleizes and the realization of metal constructions such as bridges: Gleizes stated his admiration for the Brooklyn Bridge in the first interview after his arrival in the United States, comparing it to the noblest achievements of European architecture. The Brooklyn Bridge was a key component of the New York landscape for the Ashcan School, though it hadn't held for them the fascination that it did for the generation of modern artists