Ninth Street station (PATH)
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Opened | February 25, 1908[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 1,500,499[2] 7.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rank | 13 of 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ninth Street station is a
History
The construction of the Ninth Street station was particularly difficult. In 1900, construction workers for the
The station opened on February 25, 1908, as part of the H&M extension between New Jersey and 33rd Street.[1] Originally, there was an exit on the west side of Sixth Avenue between Waverly Place and Greenwich Avenue. The exit had been removed by 1941.[5]
After the
In 2002, the Port Authority announced plans to build a second entrance at Christopher Street and Waverly Place (two blocks west of the current entrance), to ease overcrowding at the station.[7][8] The project would have included a 75-by-25-foot (22.9 by 7.6 m) mezzanine,[8] in addition to a staircase.[7] The Port Authority would have spent $29.6 million on the project, which also included new entrances at the Christopher Street station.[7] Residents expressed concerns that the project would endanger the surrounding neighborhood's fragile historic buildings (through the vibrations that a major construction project would cause) and disrupt business and traffic.[5] Furthermore, the new entrances would have been within an intersection that was protected as part of a historic district around the Stonewall Inn. Though the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation had determined that the new entrances would not affect the historic district's appearance, preservationists opposed the entrances.[7] Local opposition caused the project to be canceled.[9] After a new station near the World Trade Center reopened in 2003, the Port Authority again planned to build a second entrance at the station.[6]
Station layout
G | Street level | Exit/entrance, buses |
B1 | Southbound | ← via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (Christopher Street )
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Island platform and fare control | ||
Northbound | via HOB weekends) toward 33rd Street (14th Street ) →
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In keeping with the "style" of PATH station entrances in Manhattan, the Ninth Street entrance is in the side of a building on the east side of Sixth Avenue. Passengers travel down a number of stairwells and through a narrow curved tunnel before descending to the north end of the platform. This underground station has two tracks and a center island platform. It is located under Christopher Street, just southwest of where the PATH tracks curve under 6th Avenue. The IND Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks are to the east of the PATH tracks, and the express tracks underneath, and are not visible from this station.[10]
Just east of the station, the tracks curve north onto Sixth Avenue, while the tunnel continues straight, a provision for a
Nearby attractions
References
- ^ a b "TROLLEY TUNNEL OPEN TO JERSEY; President Turns On Power for First Official Train Between This City and Hoboken. REGULAR SERVICE STARTS Passenger Trains Between the Two Cities Begin Running at Midnight. EXERCISES OVER THE RIVER Govs. Hughes and Fort Make Congratulatory Addresses -- Dinner at Sherry's in the Evening" (PDF). The New York Times. February 26, 1908. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
- ^ "PATH Ridership Report". Port Authority NY NJ. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
- . Retrieved February 13, 2018 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ "Who Stole the Creek?" (PDF). New York Tribune. September 13, 1907. p. 5. Retrieved February 13, 2018 – via Fultonhistory.com.
- ^ a b Amateau, Albert (January 5, 2005). "History buff discovers a forgotten PATH exit". The Villager. Archived from the original on September 2, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
- ^ a b Carucci, Lisa (December 1, 2004). "PATH plan for new Village entrance is still on track". The Villager. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved 2009-08-16.
- ^ ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
- ^ ProQuest 279547459.
- ^ Amateau, Albert (October 22, 2003). "A change of course on PATH". The Villager. Archived from the original on February 7, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
- OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^ OCLC 911046235
- ^ Fitzherbert, Anthony (June 1964). "The Public Be Pleased: William Gibbs McAdoo and the Hudson Tubes". Electric Railroaders' Association. Retrieved April 24, 2018 – via nycsubway.org.