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The IRT 4,5 platforms that lead to the Jeraleman Street Tubes and the East Side Subway, are the oldest at the Borough Hall Station. This stop dates from 1908 and is the first subway station in Brooklyn; it has two side platforms, for the two track line. The platform walls have decorative terra-cotta wall relieves of interlocking B Hs for the trim line, and a terra-cotta top-line to a decorative mosaic trim-line. Most of the platform walls look quite intricate. An exception to this is towards the extreme eastern (southern) ends of the platforms where they were extended, the mosaic work here is basic blocky Borough Hall text painted on the tiles of the platform walls.

For exits the station has a small mezzanine at the extreme northern (western) end of the station that is a part time with a bank of turnstiles and a customer service agent. Streetstairs lead up to the NW and SW corners of Joralemon and Court Streets.

The main station exit is quite unusual and is towards the middle of the platforms; it consists of three overpass-levels above the platforms, their overpass levels because they're visible up above from the platforms. The outside two overpasses are within fare control, each has two staircases from it down to each platform. At the northern end of these overpasses (above the Manhattan-bound platform) there High Entrance/Exit Turnstiles, at the southern end (above the Utica/Flatbush-bound platform) are very small banks of turnstiles. There is a central mezzanine level outside of fare control that connects the two exits, at the southern end to Jeraleman Street in front of the Municipal Building; there are also now locked doors that once led into the basement of the Municipal Building, this is where the token booth is since the turnstiles are here. At the northern end of the overpass are a pare of exits that lead to Jeraleman Street right outside Borough Hall. These streetstairs are unique with black railings on top of stonework, designed to blend in with Borough Hall.

In addition to these exits, the East Side Line is connected to the rest of the station complex by a passageway from the end of the Manhattan-bound (2,3) West Side Line platform to an area that is completely beyond all of the station exits, but not by much, on this station's Manhattan-bound platform. Technically the Manhattan-bound 4,5 platform is ADA accessible by passengers using the elevator at the other end of the Manhattan-bound 2,3 platform and going down to the passageway to the Manhattan-bound 4,5 platform.
Photos 1-5: May 12, 2007; 6: June 9, 2008; 7-13: JUne 18, 2009; 14: December 28, 2010; 15-16: November 1, 2012; 17: November 12, 2013; 18-21: January 6, 2011; 22-26: September 25, 2023;

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