A view of the decomissioned Metropolis Corridor subway station the place incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani will probably be sworn in at midnight on Jan. 1. 2026.
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The historic outdated Metropolis Corridor subway station, a decommissioned practice cease that sits beneath New York Metropolis’s seat of presidency, will play host to Zohran Mamdani’s swearing-in because the Large Apple’s new mayor at midnight on Jan. 1, his transition group introduced on Monday.
Mamdani, who was partially elected on a pledge to make metropolis buses fare-free, will take the oath of workplace within the ornate century-plus year-old subway station simply because the calendar turns to the brand new 12 months. The personal occasion, which will probably be open solely to Mamdani’s household and choose members of the press, will see him formally sworn into workplace by shut ally State Legal professional Normal Letitia James.
The democratic socialist Mamdani, in a press release, drew a parallel between the station’s spectacular early Twentieth-century design and the promise of his dawning mayoralty. He stated the station is a “physical monument to a city that dared to be both beautiful and build great things that would transform working peoples’ lives.”
“That ambition need not be a memory confined only to our past, nor must it be isolated only to the tunnels beneath City Hall: it will be the purpose of the administration fortunate enough to serve New Yorkers from the building above,” he added.
Dora Pekec, a spokesperson for Mamdani’s transition, declined to say how he could be arriving on the occasion, whether or not by way of a station entrance within the Metropolis Corridor car parking zone or on a particular practice. When requested the identical query, the MTA referred New York News to Mamdani’s transition group.
New York News requested the NYPD what sort of police presence the occasion, which is able to happen amid the New Yr’s Eve ball drop in Occasions Sq., would require and is awaiting a response.
The small swearing-in ceremony on the outdated Metropolis Corridor station will precede a far bigger public swearing-in ceremony for Mamdani on the Metropolis Corridor steps on Thursday afternoon. That occasion, which could have 4,000 ticketed company, will come after a “public block party” on the streets adjoining to Metropolis Corridor — a celebration his group says may draw tens of hundreds of revelers.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani listens to a reporter’s query throughout a press convention in Manhattan on Dec. 22, 2025.REUTERS/Kylie Cooper
The unique Metropolis Corridor station opened in 1904 as one of many metropolis’s first 28 subway stops and the downtown terminus of the Interborough Speedy Transit (IRT). It was additionally the place the town’s first-ever subway trip departed from that 12 months.
The station’s observe continues to be in use at present as a turnaround for the 6 practice when it switches from the downtown to uptown tracks on the Brooklyn Bridge-Metropolis Corridor station. Whereas straphangers are not in a position to make use of the station as they as soon as did, they’ll nonetheless seize a glimpse of it by staying aboard a 6 practice after its final cease at Brooklyn Bridge-Metropolis Corridor and peering by way of the right-side home windows.
The station was designed by architects George Heins and Christopher LaFarge and options coloured mosaic tiles crafted by engineer Rafael Guastavino, in line with the New York Transit Museum. Along with the tiles, the station options brass chandeliers, vaulted ceilings, skylights, and a curved platform.
However the station was evenly used in comparison with different IRT stops, notably the close by Brooklyn Bridge station, in line with a broadcast report. It was decommissioned on New Yr’s Eve in 1945, primarily as a result of newer, longer trains have been unable to securely alight with the station’s curved platform.
The Transit Museum provides three excursions of the outdated Metropolis Corridor station every year to members who buy tickets. Tour individuals should additionally go a required background verify to achieve entry.
