Hanover Square station explained

Style:IRT
Type:Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
Operator:Interborough Rapid Transit Company
City of New York (after 1940)
Line:Third Avenue Line
Hanover Square
Platforms:1 island platform
Tracks:2
Address:Pearl Street and Hanover Square
New York, New York
Borough:Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
Coordinates:40.7047°N -74.0093°W
Structure:Elevated
Other Services Header:Former services

The Hanover Square station was an express station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two tracks and one island platform. The station was originally built in 1878 by the New York Elevated Railroad. The next stop to the north was Fulton Street. The next stop to the south was South Ferry. The station closed on December 22, 1950.[1]

In popular culture

Hanover Square station is immortalised in the last movement of Orchestral Set No. 2 by Charles Ives, a recollection of the day the news broke that the liner the Lusitania had been sunk in 1915.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Old 'El' Link Ends Its 72-Year Uproar . Richard H. . Parke . The New York Times . December 23, 1950 . 23 . 2011-11-02.