33rd Street station (PATH)
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Accessible | Yes (passageway to subway station not accessible) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | November 10, 1910[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 10,039,352[2] 10.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 2 of 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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33rd Street station is a
History
Opening
The 33rd Street station is part of the
An extension of the tunnel to Grand Central Terminal and the Grand Central subway station was proposed in 1910.[6][7] A franchise to extend the Uptown Hudson Tubes to Grand Central was awarded in June 1909.[8] Work never started due to various delays. By 1920, the H&M had submitted seventeen applications in which they sought to delay construction of the extension to Grand Central; in all seventeen instances, the H&M claimed that it was not an appropriate time to construct the tube.[9] On the H&M's seventeenth application, the Rapid Transit Commissioners declined the request for a delay, effectively ending the H&M's right to build an extension to Grand Central.[10]: 55–56
Relocation
In 1924, the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND) submitted its list of proposed subway routes to the New York City Board of Transportation. One of the proposed routes, the Sixth Avenue Line, ran parallel to the Uptown Hudson Tubes from Ninth to 33rd streets.[11] Negotiations between the city, IND, and H&M continued until 1929.[12] The IND and H&M finally came to an agreement in 1930. The city had decided to build the IND Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks around the pre-existing H&M tubes, and add express tracks for the IND underneath the H&M tubes at a later date.[13]
The 33rd Street terminal closed on December 26, 1937, and service on the H&M was cut back to 28th Street to allow for construction on the subway to take place. A temporary 29th Street entrance was installed at the 28th Street station.[14][4]: 7 The 33rd Street terminal was moved south to 32nd Street and reopened on September 24, 1939. The city paid $800,000 to build the new 33rd Street station and reimbursed H&M another $300,000 for the loss of revenue.[15] As part of this upgrade, the 28th Street station was closed and demolished. As a partial compensation for the loss of the station, an entrance to the new terminal was opened at 30th Street.[16] The IND line opened in December 1940.[17]
Subsequent years
In 1962, the
A train-car wash formerly operated at track 1 of the 33rd Street terminal. It was replaced by a wash that opened in mid-September 1993 in Jersey City. It was computer-operated, and designed to reclean and recycle the water used. More space for the operation was provided at Jersey City, allowing the detergent used on the cars to have more time to take effect. At 33rd Street, brushes began scrubbing the cars very soon after the detergent went on. Its completion allowed the PANYNJ to deactivate the car wash at 33rd Street, providing more flexibility in terminal operations there.[20]
PATH began testing out a new contactless payment system called TAPP, similar to the
Station layout
G | Street level | Exit/entrance, buses | |
B1 | Upper mezzanine | South fare control | |
B2 Platform level |
Side platform | North fare control, subway station
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Southbound | ← HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (23rd Street) ← JSQ–33 (via HOB) weekends toward Journal Square (23rd Street) | ||
Island platform | |||
Southbound | ← via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (23rd Street )
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Island platform | |||
Southbound | ← via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (23rd Street )
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Side platform | |||
B3 | Lower mezzanine | Subway fare control | |
B4 | Southbound local | ← do not stop here | |
Southbound express | ← do not stop here | ||
Northbound express | → do not stop here → | ||
Northbound local | → do not stop here → |
The present station has three tracks in a Spanish solution with two island platforms and two side platforms, located two stories below ground level.[23] There is a small mezzanine with turnstiles, located above the platforms, at the south end of the station. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the north end of the station, where ramps from each platform lead up to the northern turnstile area, located about one and a half stories below ground level.
Exits
At the south end of the 33rd Street station are two staircases, one to either side of Sixth Avenue between 30th and 31st Streets. The northern end contains exits to the northwest and northeast corners of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street, and an elevator on the west side of Sixth Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets. From the northern end of the station, there are also passageways to the connected New York City Subway station and its own exits.
11th Av | 10th & 9th Avs are skipped |
Farley Building & Moynihan Train Hall |
8th Av | Madison Square Garden |
7th Av | Storefronts | 6th Av & Broadway |
5th & Madison Avs are skipped |
Park Av | ||
mezzanine
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train hall | A / C / E | concourse
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1 / 2 / 3 | Former Gimbel's
passageway |
mezz
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PATH | 6 / <6>
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mezzanine
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conc
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mezzanine | concourse
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mezzanine | N / Q / R / W
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7 / <7>
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Penn Station (Platform Level)
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B/D/F/<F>/M
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Nearby attractions
- Empire State Building
- Herald Square
- Koreatown
- Macy's
- Madison Square Garden
- Penn Station
- Manhattan Mall
References
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
- ^ "PATH Ridership Report". Port Authority NY NJ. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
- from the original on April 25, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Hudson and Manhattan Railroad". Electric Railroads (27). Electric Railroaders Association. August 1959. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
- ^ "By Hudson Tunnel to Grand Central". New-York Tribune. February 11, 1909. p. 1. Retrieved August 13, 2019 – via newspapers.com .
- ^ D'Orazio, Bernard (April 23, 2018). "In 1874, a Daring Downtown Plan: Build a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson". Tribeca Trib Online. Archived from the original on May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
- from the original on April 25, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- OCLC 911046235
- from the original on April 9, 2018. Retrieved April 8, 2018.
- from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- from the original on April 28, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
- from the original on April 16, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- from the original on April 16, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2018.
- ^ "New Subway Line on 6th Ave. Opens at Midnight Fete". The New York Times. December 15, 1940. pp. 1, 56. Archived from the original on May 15, 2018. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
- ^ Cuozzo, Steve (November 28, 2010). "Remembering the Gimbels tunnel". New York Post. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ Roberts, Donald (September 1993). "New Wash for PATH Cars". Pathways. 25 (3). Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation: 1–3.
- ^ Higgs, Larry (December 4, 2023). "PATH to start testing tap-and-go fare payments at 2 stations Tuesday". nj. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
- ^ Brachfeld, Ben (December 4, 2023). "Port Authority unveils new contactless payment system for PATH Train, dubbed 'TAPP'". amNewYork. Retrieved December 4, 2023.
- OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
External links
Media related to 33rd Street (PATH station) at Wikimedia Commons