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 Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough Hall Brooklyn Borough Hall was designed by architects Calvin Pollard and Gamaliel King in the Greek Revival style, and constructed of Tuckahoe marble under the supervision of superintendent Stephen Haynes. It was completed in 1848 to be used as the City Hall of the former City of Brooklyn. In January 1898 the independent City of Brooklyn merged with the City of New York, and Kings County became the Borough of Brooklyn, at which time the building became Brooklyn Borough Hall. In 1834, the year Brooklyn was granted its city charter, the land for Brooklyn's city hall was donated