Part of Borough Hall subway station collapses, once again
Just a month after pieces of the ceiling fell onto the Borough Hall subway station’s Manhattan-bound platform for the 4 and 5 trains, a large piece of plaster fell on Thursday afternoon onto the same station’s Brooklyn-bound platform. A transit worker reported that no one was injured and that MTA is looking into the incident.
The Borough Hall’s stop serving the 4 and 5 trains is the oldest underground station in Brooklyn, having opened in 1908 (the Borough Hall platforms serving the 2 and 3 trains opened about 10 years later). After last month’s incident, MTA promised to invest $43 million toward repairs to the station, including rehabilitating the ceiling, installing new tiles, replacing platform edges and redesigning the turnstile areas, according to Curbed.
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