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Hoboken to 33rd Street: Blue Marker
lights


Hoboken
is discussed on the Hoboken
Terminal page.

Christopher Street has two tracks and
an island platform. Due to heavy usage following the 9/11
disaster, trains skip this station to NJ in the morning rush and
to New York in the PM Rush The Port Authority has plans to add a
second exit but locals are concerned about esthetics The current
entrance backs up to the street and customers going the "Wrong
way" have a hard time accessing the station. Fare control is at
the West (South) end. The street entrance is hard to find being
in the side of a building. Based on counting steps, PATH is
below the IRT 1 train
9th Street
has two tracks and an island platform. This station has also
seen a sharp increase in usage since 9/11 and here again a
second entrance is embroiled in controversy with the locals.
Fare control is at the East (North) end. At street level the
entrance is hard to find. A big help here would be for a pylon,
banner or other signage to help find the entrance. Here too,
access is controlled during rush hours. West of here there is a
bell mouth which was planned to connect to the Lexington Avenue
subway. Based on counting steps this station is between the IND
8th Avenue and IND 6th Avenue tracks at
about the level of the lower mezzanine of the IND’s West 4th
Street Station.
Your webmaster had a chance to speak to PATH
and NYCT track workers about the layout and got the same answer
from both: The tracks are not on the same level! Think of a
sandwich with two slices of bread- IND Local, PATH, and IND
Express, Of course, at 14th the Canarsie BMT is still
lower.
14th
Street has two
tracks and two wall platforms. There is no free crossover or
crossunder to the other platform, Eastbound has a separate
entrance from the street in the side of a building while
westbound (Southbound) features common entrance with the sixth
Avenue subway, But with separate fare controls. The common
Mezzanine westbound features mosaic directional tablets for
Hudson Tubes
19th Street
had two tracks and two wall platforms. It now serves as an
emergency fan plant and was closed to speed up service.
23rd Street
has two tracks and two wall platforms there is a crossunder to
the subway but there are separate fare controls for each
direction for subway and PATH. The PATH is slightly lower than
the subway based on counting steps.
28th Street
had two tracks and two wall platforms and was a victim of the 6th
Avenue IND construction
33rd Street
is discussed on the PATH Complexes Page
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