34th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)
34th St. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Former Manhattan Railway elevated station | ||||||||||||||||
 Looking below towards the west at the 34th Street station in 1918, from a skyscraper on Eighth Avenue. | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | West 34th Street and 9th Avenue New York, NY Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′12.22″N 73°59′46.77″W / 40.7533944°N 73.9963250°W | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Interborough Rapid Transit Company | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Ninth Avenue Line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 side platforms (2 on each level) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 (1 upper level; 2 lower level) | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||
| Platform levels | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | July 30, 1873 | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | June 11, 1940[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Former services | ||||||||||||||||
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The 34th Street station was an express station on the demolished
IND
subway stations at Penn Station.
History
In April 1930, a new stairway at the station was opened to the northeast corner of Ninth Avenue and 34th Street.[2]
References
- ^ "Tonight to See City Pass Goal of Unification". New York Daily News. June 10, 1940. p. 37. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ New York (State). Transit Commission. (1930). Tenth Annual Report, 1930. Columbia University Libraries. Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon Co.
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