The mezzanine featured a wooden ticket booth and two stairways to the street. Contrary to popular rumor, there was no plaque here honoring Alfred Ely Beach's early pneumatic subway. As of early 1996, the plaques are back in their original positions on the trackside wall. These plaques were removed when the station was closed, and relocated to the Brooklyn Bridge station, where they hung near a token booth until 1995.
The plaques listed the directors, engineers, and financiers, including August Belmont, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and John D.
When City Hall Station opened, plaques were hung on the track-side wall commemorating the Interborough Rapid Transit company and honoring the Rapid Transit Subway Construction Co. The arched ceiling of the platform area has simple brass light fixtures along its length. stations of the era the lettering is quite unique, as is the deep blue and tan glass tiling. No other signs like these were placed in the other IRT. On each side of the stairway, there is a glass tile "City Hall" sign, and a third is on the archway above the stairs. In the center of the platform is an archway over stairs leading to the mezzanine. The curved platform is about 400' feet long, which is the length of a five car IRT train minus the front and rear doors as was the IRT's standard design for a local station when it was constructed. The platform and mezzanine feature Guastavino arches and skylights, colored glass tilework, and brass chandeliers.
Unusually elegant in architectural style, it is unique among the original IRT stations. The site of the 1900 groundbreaking, this station was designed to be the showpiece of the new subway. City Hall Station, situated on a loop of track in front of City Hall, was the original southern terminal of the Interborough Rapid Transit subway.
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