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Ninth Street station (PATH)

Ninth Street station is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 9th Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it is served by the Hoboken–33rd Street and Journal Square–33rd Street lines on weekdays, and by the Journal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) line on weekends.

9th Street
Port Authority Trans-Hudson PATH rapid transit station
Platform level
General information
LocationNinth Street and Sixth Avenue
Manhattan, New York
Coordinates40°44′03″N 73°59′59″W / 40.7341°N 73.9997°W / 40.7341; -73.9997
Owned byPort Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
AccessibleNo
History
OpenedFebruary 25, 1908[1]
Passengers
20181,500,499[2] Decrease 7.3%
Rank13 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station
Weekdays
Christopher Street
toward Hoboken
 HOB–33 14th Street
toward 33rd Street
Christopher Street
toward Journal Square
 JSQ–33
Weeknights, Weekends, Holidays
Christopher Street
toward Journal Square
 JSQ–33 (via HOB) 14th Street
toward 33rd Street
Location
Map

History

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Street entrance

The construction of the Ninth Street station was particularly difficult. In 1900, construction workers for the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M), the PATH's predecessor, had to navigate quicksand formed from the water of the former Minetta Creek above it. Their work was particularly difficult as they could not break the surface of Sixth Avenue, which would have disrupted traffic.[3] In 1907, the Degnon Contracting Company was building an extension to the H&M Railroad north of 9th Street and declared the water to have dried up, to the relief of area property owners who had previously spent thousands of dollars on pumps to rid their properties of water.[4]

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 September 11, 2001 attacks, which resulted in the destruction of the vital World Trade Center station, Ninth Street experienced serious overcrowding. In 2002, Ninth Street was used by an average of 8,900 people per day, about 3.248 million per annum. This was 54% higher than the 1.496 million passengers that utilized this station in 2001.[6]

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

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G Street level Exit/entrance, buses
B1 Southbound ←      HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (Christopher Street)
←           JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (Christopher Street)
Island platform and fare control
Northbound →      HOB–33 weekdays toward 33rd Street (14th Street) →
→           JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward 33rd Street (14th Street) →

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 level junction with a never-built branch line that would have run to Astor Place on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.[11][12]: 22  The bellmouth for the proposed Astor Place connection north of this station runs for about 250 feet (76 m). Large portions of the ring erecting machine from the original tunnel construction is in the bellmouth for the proposed extension, and the tunnel is also filled with equipment.[12]: 20 [13]

Nearby attractions

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References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "PATH Ridership Report". Port Authority NY NJ. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
  3. ^ Davies, J. Vipond (October 1, 1909). "The Hudson and Manhattan Tunnel System". Railroad Age Gazette. 47: 585. hdl:2027/njp.32101049000761. Retrieved February 13, 2018 – via HathiTrust.
  4. ^ "Who Stole the Creek?" (PDF). New York Tribune. September 13, 1907. p. 5. Retrieved February 13, 2018 – via Fultonhistory.com.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ a b c d Dunlap, David W. (June 20, 2002). "Blocks; PATH Project Unloved in the Village". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 15, 2024.
  8. ^ a b Kahn, Robert (7 June 2002). "Group: PA Taking The Wrong Path". Newsday. p. A21. ISSN 2574-5298. ProQuest 279547459.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ "M'ADOO SUBWAY WINS FIGHT FOR FRANCHISE; Crosstown Line Perpetual -- 25 Years Under Sixth Avenue". The New York Times. December 16, 1904. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  12. ^ a b Cudahy, Brian J. (2002), Rails Under the Mighty Hudson (2nd ed.), New York: Fordham University Press, ISBN 978-0-82890-257-1, OCLC 911046235
  13. ^ 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.
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