Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor at the abandoned city hall subway station

WNYC News | Dec 31, 2025

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as mayor inside an old abandoned subway station at City Hall at midnight on January 1st. 

That subway station was closed exactly 81 years ago on New Year’s in 1945 after low ridership and larger trains made the station less practical. We wanted to teach you a little bit more about this quirky location that evidently means something to the incoming administration. Manhattan Borough Historian Robert Snyder joins WNYC's Sean Carlson to talk more about it.

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