At 2:35 p.m., on Thursday, October 27, 1904, 91st Street station officially opened its doors to the public as the first underground station of the NYC Subway system, along with City Hall as the terminus of the line and going all the way to 145th in Harlem, Manhattan on the now 2/3 lines of the Lenox Avenue Line. On February 2, 1959, 91st Street met its faith and officially closed its doors forever. On July 30, 1955, the New York City Transit Authority announced that the 91st Street station would be temporarily closed to passengers at the end of service at 12:02 am on Monday, February 2, 1959. The closing of this station happened due to the nearby 86th (downtown) and 96th (uptown) stations having their platforms lengthened to accommodate longer trains, but 91st didn’t have its platforms lengthened, so it was sealed off and abandoned on February 2, 1959. Now the IRT Broadway Seventh Avenue Line 1/2/3 lines. This left Worth Street station on the IRT Lexington Avenue line as the only station still open, but it eventually followed suit and officially closed its doors three and a half years later on September 1, 1962.