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World Trade Center station is a terminal station on the PATH system, within the World Trade Center complex in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It is served by the Newark–World Trade Center line at all times, as well as by the Hoboken–World Trade Center line on weekdays, and is the eastern terminus of both.
The World Trade Center station is near the site of the
The station has five tracks and four platforms in the middle of a turning loop. Trains from New Jersey use the loop to turn around and head back to New Jersey. The platforms are four floors below ground level. The floor immediately above the platforms is occupied by the station's fare mezzanine. The New York City Subway's WTC Cortlandt station is adjacent to and above the mezzanine.
The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, and includes connections to various New York City Subway stations. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area. The new station has received mixed reviews: although the hub has been praised for its design, it has also been criticized for its high costs and extended delays.
Station layout
Ground | Street level | Vesey Street, West Broadway, Greenwich Street, September 11 Memorial and Museum |
Basement 1 Upper Concourse 7th Avenue Line stations[2]
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Northbound | ← toward Forest Hills–71st Avenue (City Hall) ← toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard weekdays (City Hall) ← toward Astoria–Ditmars Boulevard late nights (City Hall) | |
Southbound | toward Bay Ridge–95th Street (Rector Street) → toward Whitehall Street–South Ferry weekdays (Rector Street)→ toward Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue late nights (Rector Street) → | |
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Balcony | Westfield World Trade Center; elevators, escalators, and stairs to lower concourse | |
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Northbound | ← toward Van Cortlandt Park–242nd Street (Chambers Street) | |
Southbound | toward South Ferry (Rector Street)→ | |
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West Concourse Balcony | Shops, passageway to Brookfield Place | |
Basement 2 Lower Concourse[2] |
Subway passageway | trains at Chambers Street–World Trade Center trains via Fulton Center |
Subway crossunder | Broadway Line platforms
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Westfield World Trade Center | Shops and booths | |
Subway crossunder | MetroCard machines, turnstiles and entrance to 7th Avenue Line platforms
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Basement 3 Mezzanine[2] |
PATH fare control | MetroCard/SmartLink machines, access to PATH platforms |
West Concourse | Shops, passageway to Brookfield Place | |
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Track 1 | ← HOB–WTC rush hours toward Hoboken (Exchange Place) | |
Island platform (Platform A) | ||
Track 2[a] | ← HOB–WTC weekdays toward Hoboken (Exchange Place) | |
Island platform (Platform B) | ||
Track 3[b] | ← HOB–WTC weekdays toward Hoboken (Exchange Place) | |
Track 4[c] | ← NWK–WTC toward Newark (Exchange Place) | |
Island platform (Platform C) | ||
Track 5[d] | ← NWK–WTC toward Newark (Exchange Place) | |
Side platform (Platform D) |
The station has five tracks served by three island platforms and one side platform in a basement four stories underground.[3]: S.10 [2] Platform A, next to tracks 1 and 2, opened as part of the Transportation Hub on February 25, 2014.[4][5][6] Platform B between tracks 2 and 3 opened on May 7, 2015.[7] The other two platforms opened on September 8, 2016.[8]
Above the station, there are three mezzanine levels. The top two levels contain shops as part of the
Prior to reconstruction, there was a temporary entrance on Church Street, which opened along with the rest of the temporary station in November 2003.
A connection to Brookfield Place opened on October 27, 2013, through a permanent passageway known as the West Concourse.[15][16] On August 16, 2016, the Westfield World Trade Center entrance opened.[17][18] To accommodate repairs to the Downtown Hudson Tubes, service on the Newark–World Trade Center line between Exchange Place and World Trade Center was suspended during almost all weekends in 2019 and 2020, except on holiday weekends.[19]
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Hudson Terminal
Hudson Terminal was built by the
By 1914, passenger volume at the Hudson Terminal had reached 30,535,500 annually.[22] Volume nearly doubled by 1922, with 59,221,354 passengers that year.[24] Overall ridership on the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad declined substantially from a high of 113 million riders in 1927 to 26 million in 1958, after new automobile tunnels and bridges opened across the Hudson River.[23]: 56 The H&M went bankrupt in 1954.[25] The state of New Jersey wanted the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to take over the railroad, but the Port Authority had long viewed it as unprofitable.[26]
The Port Authority ultimately took over the H&M as part of an agreement concerning the construction of the World Trade Center.[26] The Port Authority had initially proposed constructing the complex on the East River, on the opposite side of Lower Manhattan from Hudson Terminal.[27][28] As an interstate agency, the Port Authority required approval for its projects from both New Jersey's and New York's state governments, but the New Jersey government objected that the proposed trade center would mostly benefit New York.[26] In late 1961, Port Authority executive director Austin J. Tobin proposed shifting the project to Hudson Terminal and taking over the H&M in exchange for New Jersey's agreement.[29] On January 22, 1962, the two states reached an agreement to allow the Port Authority to take over the railroad and build the World Trade Center on the Hudson Terminal site, which was by then deemed obsolete.[30]
Old PATH stations
Original PATH station
Groundbreaking on the World Trade Center took place in 1966. The site was on land fill, with bedrock located 213 feet (65 m) below the surface.[31] A new method was used to construct a slurry wall to keep out water from the Hudson River. During excavation of the site and construction of the towers, the original Hudson Tubes remained in service as elevated tunnels.[32] The new station cost $35 million to build. At the time, it had a passenger volume of 85,000 daily.[33]
The Hudson Terminal station closed on July 2, 1971, to allow a three-day maintenance period to divert service to the World Trade Center PATH station.
The station sustained minor damage during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; a section of ceiling in the station collapsed and trapped dozens.[37][38] Within a week, the Port Authority was able to resume PATH service to the World Trade Center.[39]
The station was closed on September 11, 2001, after American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:46 a.m.. In the minutes afterward, three PATH trains pulled into the station. One had arrived from Newark and two others from Hoboken. The first Hoboken train turned around without stopping, not letting off passengers or opening any doors. The second Hoboken train arrived on track 3 at 8:52 a.m. and was ordered to be evacuated, employees included; the train never left the World Trade Center complex and was found during the 9/11 recovery process.[40] Two lightly damaged cars from that train were subsequently sent to museums.[41][42] A train from Newark came into the terminal at 8:55 a.m. and stopped only to pick up passengers. After United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower at 9:03 a.m., dispatchers ordered the closure of the Exchange Place and World Trade Center stations; the former was closed due to severe water damage. A fourth train was sent to the station at 9:10 a.m. to pick up a dozen PATH employees and a homeless individual, leaving the station empty. The station was subsequently destroyed during the collapse of the World Trade Center.[40]
Temporary PATH station
With the station destroyed, service to Lower Manhattan was suspended for over two years.
PATH service to Lower Manhattan was restored when a temporary station opened on November 23, 2003.[9] The inaugural train was the same one that had been used for the evacuation.[46] The temporary PATH station was designed by Port Authority chief architect Robert I. Davidson[47] and constructed at a cost of $323 million.[9] It was located at the same place as the original station.[3]: S.4 The station featured a canopy entrance along Church Street and a 118-by-12-foot (36 by 3.7 m) mosaic mural, "Iridescent Lightning," by Giulio Candussio[47] of the Scuola Mosaicisti del Friuli in Spilimbergo, Italy. The station was also adorned with opaque panel walls inscribed with inspirational quotes attesting to the greatness and resilience of New York City. These panels partially shielded the World Trade Center site from view.[48]
Some sections of the station, including the passageway and the signage on the northeast corner, were only lightly damaged on September 11, 2001, during the collapse of the World Trade Center. These sections of the station were retained in the temporary station, and remained in the new station.[49][50] Following its reopening and the resumption of Newark–World Trade Center and Hoboken–World Trade Center services, the station quickly reclaimed its status as the busiest station in the PATH system.[51] However, it had several limitations. The temporary station had 8-car-long platforms, whereas the original station had 10-car-long platforms. The station frame was also not strong enough to support development above it, and parts of the station were located outdoors in the "bathtub".[3]: S.4 The temporary station had only one entrance, at Church Street, and disabled patrons needed to take four elevators to go from street level to platform level.[3]: S.5
The station was also home to a
World Trade Center Transportation Hub
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's formal name for the new PATH station and the associated transit and retail complex that opened on March 3, 2016.[12][13] The station's renaming took place when the station reopened.[56][57] It was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and composed of a train station with a large and open mezzanine under the National September 11 Memorial plaza.[58] This mezzanine is connected to an aboveground head house structure called the Oculus—located between 2 World Trade Center and 3 World Trade Center—as well as to public concourses under the various towers in the World Trade Center complex.[57]
In addition, the station was designed to connect the PATH to the New York City Subway system, and to facilitate a below ground east–west passageway that connects to the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal. Furthermore, to replace the lost retail space from the original mall at the World Trade Center, significant portions of the Hub are devoted to the new 365,000-square-foot (33,900 m2) Westfield World Trade Center mall.[59]
Background
After the September 11 attacks, officials proposed a $7 billion redesign of transit in Lower Manhattan. This included a new PATH terminal, the Fulton Center, the
A large transit station was not part of the 2003 Memory Foundations master plan for the site by Daniel Libeskind, which called for a smaller station along the lines of the original subterranean station that existed beneath the World Trade Center. Libeskind's design proposed that the current station house's site be left as an open plaza, forming a "Wedge of Light" so that sun rays around the autumnal equinox would hit the World Trade Center footprints each September.[62][63][64] The plaza would have included a wedge whose lines showed the sun's rays at 8:46 a.m. and 10:28 a.m. on September 11 of each year. These times respectively represented when American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower and when it collapsed.[65][64]
Redesign
In early 2004, the Port Authority, which owns the land, modified the Libeskind plan to include a large transportation station downtown, intended to rival Penn Station and Grand Central Terminal.[66] Calatrava was hired as the architect for this new, $2 billion design, and he revealed his plan in January 2004.[64][65] Calatrava's design called for an above-ground station house (now the Oculus) with curved supports that extended outward, like wings. These wings would run the length of the concourse, which would run from Church Street in the east to the PATH station under Greenwich Street in the west. The building itself would be located on its own block, bounded clockwise from the north by Fulton, Church, Dey, and Greenwich Streets.[65]
A skylight would run the length of the station building.[65] The roof was originally designed to mechanically open to increase light and ventilation to the enclosed space. In a nod to the Libeskind concept, the Oculus was built to maximize the effect of the autumnal equinox rays (coinciding with the skylight opening on or around September 11 every year).[67] On the actual anniversary of the attacks, the skylight would open for 102 minutes to commemorate the duration between the time the first tower was hit and the collapse of the second tower.[68] If needed, the skylight could also be manually opened to provide air ventilation.[65]
As outlined in the reconstruction plan, the new terminal would be rebuilt in several stages. The first phase would include the construction of a temporary northern entrance, which would be open between 2005 and 2006. The second phase would entail the construction of an East-West Concourse under the West Side Highway, connecting to the World Financial Center (now Brookfield Place). The third phase would include temporary structural underpinning for a temporary platform and track, as well as the construction of Platform D, the first permanent platform. The fourth phase would consist of the lengthening of the other three platforms, expansion of the mezzanine, and structural completion, while the fifth phase would include the construction of the station house. The complex would be completed by 2009 or 2010 under this plan.[3]: S.14–S.15
The station design received critical acclaim.[69] In 2004, Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic for The New York Times, compared the design to the Bethesda Terrace and Fountain in Central Park. He congratulated the Port Authority for hiring Calatrava, and predicted that the new station would be able to impact the city's future. Muschamp continued that the architect's vision "should satisfy those who believe that buildings planned for ground zero must aspire to a spiritual dimension."[70] Another New York Times critic, Michael Kimmelman, wrote that the PATH hub was appropriate for the World Trade Center site, as it would be "a major cultural contribution" to the New York City skyline.[71] A committee for Manhattan Community Board 1 called the station design "beautiful" in 2005.[72]
Calatrava described the original design as representative of "a bird being released from a child's hand".[73] However, Calatrava's original soaring spike design was scaled back because of security issues. The New York Times observed in 2005 that the "bird has grown a beak", and that because of the new security features, the station might "now evoke a slender stegosaurus more than it does a bird".[74] The design was further modified in 2008 to eliminate the opening and closing roof mechanism because of budget and space constraints.[75]
A
West Concourse
A 600-foot (180 m) pedestrian underpass under the West Side Highway, referred to as the West Concourse and formerly as the East-West Connector, links the WTC station mezzanine with Brookfield Place in Battery Park City, on the west side of the World Trade Center.[81] It contains stores as part of Westfield World Trade Center.[82] The concourse itself opened on October 23, 2013.[83][84] Access to One World Trade Center from the West Concourse became possible for employees when the tower opened on November 3, 2014.[85] On May 29, 2015, the same day the tower's observatory opened, the entrance to the observation deck opened.[86] The concourse cost $225 million to build, and has been described as the most expensive passageway in the world.[87][88]
Construction
Construction of the Oculus called for relocation of the
The Oculus's $542 million construction contract was awarded to Skanska in summer 2010. The project included steel erection for the substructure; construction connecting to the Vehicular Security Center; the Greenwich Street corridor and the steel and concrete placing under the 1 train's subway box; and preparations for installation of east arch truss.[94] By June 2013, ten pieces of exterior arches were installed for the Oculus. The initial construction was expected to conclude at the end of 2014 or beginning of 2015, and the internal construction such as paint, turnstiles, and ticket booths, was expected to complete in the end of 2015, with an official opening scheduled for December 17, 2015.[92] On October 23, 2013, the West Concourse opened with access to the World Financial Center, now renamed the Brookfield Place. The storefronts were covered and not yet opened, and the second floor was still closed for construction of One World Trade Center.[15][16]
On February 25, 2014, half of the first platform of the new station, Platform A, was opened to the public with service to Hoboken. The new platform, an island platform, was fully modernized and contains new lighting, speakers, illuminated signs, escalators and elevators. The west side of the platform was walled off at the time.[5][16] On November 3, One World Trade Center opened, as did the PATH entrance from that building.[85][95] Eight days later, the Fulton Center and Dey Street Concourse opened to the public. The Dey Street Concourse entrance into the Transportation Hub was closed until the Hub opened.[96] On November 22, the last of 114 rafters was installed. Also by this date, one crane had been disassembled and painting of the hub continued.[97][16]
On May 7, 2015, Platform B and the remaining half of Platform A opened, and Platform C closed.[7][16] A few weeks later on May 29, the entrance to the observation deck in the West Concourse was opened on the same day One World Observatory also opened.[86] In late September, the temporary new West Walkway opened with access from the platforms to the West Concourse.[98]
Cost and delays
The Transportation Hub has been described as either one of the world's most expensive train stations,[99] or the world's single most expensive station, for its massive reconstruction cost of approximately $4 billion.[13][78][100] By contrast, the proposed 2-mile (3.2 km) extension of the Newark–World Trade Center PATH service to Newark Liberty International Airport is projected to cost $1.5 billion.[101] The hub was also criticized for its delays, as the hub was completed almost 10 years later than originally projected.[66][102] However, even the original cost projections for the hub were high, as the original proposal was projected to cost almost $2 billion. The high cost for a single station is attributed to the extravagant design, which stems from the Port Authority needing to convince the government of New Jersey to pay for a project situated entirely in New York.[69]
Originally, the reconstruction was to be funded by the Federal Transit Administration, which gave approximately $1.9 billion to the project. The costs of the hub were still expensive, but it was to be finished at budget in 2009. In 2014 dollars, the cost of the hub was estimated at $4 billion. The hub cost twice as much in 2014 as it should have originally cost in 2004.[99] The West Concourse cost $225 million and was billed as the "world's most expensive hallway".[87] Construction, maintenance, and management alone cost $635 million; the Port Authority awarded several subcontracts, most of them costly.[99] The fees of the main construction team took up almost a billion dollars, and utility installation around the entire World Trade Center site cost another $400 million.[103] Over $500 million in cost savings was overlooked.[99]
The design was costly, with Calatrava netting $80 million in design fees[104][103] and the overall architectural design being another $405.8 million.[103] Speeding up the pace of construction also contributed to the higher cost, with $100 million dedicated to building the National September 11 Memorial & Museum and another $24 million to speed up delivery of construction materials.[103] The price of the station was further driven up by Calatrava's architectural decisions.[e] He wanted to import custom-made steel from a northern Italian factory, which cost $474 million, and have a columnless, aesthetically based design; skylights in the ground, instead of trees;[f] and large, soaring "wings", or rafters.[99] Another $335 million was added to the cost overrun because the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had to build around the New York City Subway's IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (carrying the 1 train), since the Metropolitan Transportation Authority refused to close the line for fear of inconveniencing commuters from Staten Island taking the Staten Island Ferry. The line had to be supported on a bridge over the station instead of on columns through the station.[99] In 2012, Hurricane Sandy damaged several hundred million dollars worth of materials.[99] Some of the additional cost and delay was due to additions and modifications to the original plan by the Port Authority. Calatrava's original entry pavilion was scaled back for security reasons, for instance.[75]
The hub's skyrocketing costs also attracted much controversy. An editor at The New York Times wrote that "Mr. Calatrava is amassing an unusually long list of projects marred by cost overruns, delays and litigation", referring to his other projects around the world that were over budget.[105] Especially because the current station has a ridership of only 46,000 daily passengers compared to 250,000 at Grand Central Terminal, the renovation is sometimes depicted as overpriced and overstylized.[99] According to a writer for Esquire magazine, even if the hub's cost were disregarded, operating the PATH was itself a waste of money for the Port Authority.[69][g]
In late 2015, the opening was delayed to early 2016 by a leaking roof.[107] When the hub opened in March 2016, the director of the Port Authority, Pat Foye, declined to hold an event to celebrate the opening of the Hub, describing it as "symbol of excess" and noting he was "troubled with the huge cost" of the construction project.[108]
Opening
On March 3, 2016, the Oculus partially opened to the public, along with new entrances. Only the west end of the Oculus and the Westfield Mall corridor to Four World Trade Center was opened.[13][109][110] Two months later, on May 26, 2016, PATH riders received a direct underground link to Fulton Center and the Cortlandt Street–Church Street station through the Oculus.[111] The PATH entrance into 2 World Trade Center opened on June 21, 2016, and the temporary PATH entrance to outside 7 World Trade Center closed five days later.[112][16] Yet another entrance opened to the public when the Westfield World Trade Center mall was opened on August 16.[17][18] On September 8, 2016, the restrooms were opened on the south side of the mezzanine. The last two station platforms in the hub, Platforms C and D, were also opened, as was the permanent West Concourse walkway.[8][16] On December 19, the direct underground link to the New York City Subway's World Trade Center station, at the northeast corner of the complex, reopened.[113][49]
Following the 17th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2018, the rubber seal of the Oculus's skylight broke.[114] As a result, for the 18th anniversary in 2019, the skylight was unable to open as scheduled.[68][115]
Notable incidents
On October 13, 2016, the first birth inside the Oculus occurred.[116] A woman was walking through the station with her husband when she went into labor, eventually giving birth on the floor.[117] Another woman had previously given birth inside the old PATH station in August 2015.[118]
A few months later, on February 11, 2017, the first death inside the Oculus occurred.[119] A woman from New Jersey, Jenny Santos, fell to her death from an escalator. News reports initially said she was trying to retrieve a hat dropped by her sister, but lost her balance and fell;[120] it was later revealed that she "was pretending to be flying" while lying on the escalator's handrail.[121] After her death, there was some focus on the height of the 3-foot-4-inch (1.02 m) handrails, and how they could pose a safety risk.[121]
Adjacent transit connections
The Transportation Hub is designed to connect the PATH subway system to the
Between September 2003 and April 2004, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation conducted a feasibility study of the Lower Manhattan–Jamaica/JFK Transportation Project. It would use the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch to Downtown Brooklyn and a tunnel to Lower Manhattan to provide faster service to John F. Kennedy International Airport.[125][126] The project was halted in 2008 before an environmental impact statement could be created.[127]
As of September 2018[update], current services include:[128]
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