14th Street station (PATH) explained

14th Street
Style:	PATH
Type:	PATH rapid transit station
Address:	14th Street and Sixth Avenue
Borough:	Manhattan, New York
Coordinates:	40.7374°N -73.9969°W
Owned:	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line:	Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platform:	2 side platforms
Tracks:	2
Accessible:	No
Passengers:	2,700,912^[1]
Pass Year:	2018
Pass Percent:	-5.5
Pass Rank:	9 of 13
Other Services Header:	Former services
Other Services Collapsible:	yes
Map State:	collapsed
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Custom:	Shape: none Line: none Marker: rail-metro Marker-Color: 000 Zoom: 15

14th Street station is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 14th Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in the Chelsea 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.

History

The original station, opened on February 25, 1908,^[2] was modified slightly as a result of the building of the Sixth Avenue Line. The platforms were extended to the south, and the northern ends were closed. This allowed the downtown platform to share a street entrance with the downtown IND subway.

The southbound platform was renovated in 1986.^[3]

Station layout

This PATH station consists of two side platforms, which are not connected by a crossover or crossunder. The southbound platform shares a mezzanine area with the IND Sixth Avenue Line's station at 14th Street, which the PATH station is located in between, but the northbound platform exits directly to the street. The tracks of the PATH station are located above the Sixth Avenue Line's express tracks, which the tunnels for were dug using the "deep-bore" tunneling method in the mid-1960s, and are not visible from the platforms. The deep-bore tunnel's round shape becomes square below this station and at 23rd Street, where provisions exist for lower level platforms. There is no free transfer between either platform, nor to any of the other stations in the 14th Street/Sixth Avenue station complex.

19th Street station

North of the 14th Street station is the abandoned 19th Street station,^[4] which was the original northern terminus of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. It opened on February 25, 1908, and closed on August 1, 1954.^[5] It is now used for storing mechanical equipment and is still visible from trains travelling between 14th Street and 23rd Street.

Subway connections

Direct New York City Subway connections include:

• 14th Street on the IND Sixth Avenue Line
• 14th Street on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line via a block-long passageway
• Sixth Avenue on the BMT Canarsie Line

Passengers traveling from New Jersey must exit to street level, enter a nearby subway entrance, and descend to a separate subway mezzanine in order to access the IND station complex.

The entrances for New Jersey-bound PATH commuters are on the southwest and northwest corners of 6th Avenue and 14th Street. The entrance for 33rd Street-bound PATH commuters is on the east side of 6th Avenue, midblock between 13th and 14th Streets. The New School and Union Square are nearby.

External links

• PATH – 14th Street Station
• 14th Street southbound entrance (shared with NYCS) from Google Maps Street View
• 14th Street northbound entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018 . PATH Ridership Report . February 22, 2023 . Port Authority NY NJ . Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
2. News: Trolley Tunnel Open to New Jersey. February 26, 1908. The New York Times. 1. The natural barrier which has separated New York from New Jersey since those States came into existence was, figuratively speaking, wiped away at 3:40½ o'clock yesterday afternoon when the first of the two twin tubes of the McAdoo tunnel system was formally opened, thus linking Manhattan with Hoboken, and establishing a rapid transit service beneath the Hudson River.. July 20, 2016.
3. News: NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; PATH Recalls Early Years. Anderson. Susan Heller. 1986-05-27. Dunlap. David W.. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 2016-07-20.
4. News: The PATH Turns 100. 30 October 2016. The New York Times. 26 February 2008.
5. Web site: The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad – Celebrating 100 Years of Service to the NY/NJ Metropolitan Region. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey . 2009-08-16.