33rd Street station (PATH)

33rd Street
33rd Street
	PATH rapid transit station
Location	33rd Street and Sixth Avenue; Manhattan, New York
Coordinates	40.749111°N 73.988240°W
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platforms	2 side platforms, 2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	New York City Subway:; at 34th Street–Herald Square; at 34th Street–Penn Station; NYCT Bus: M7, M34 / M34A SBS, M55; Amtrak, LIRR, NJT Rail (at Penn Station)
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	November 10, 1910[1]
Rebuilt	1939
Electrified	600V (DC) third rail
Traffic
Passengers (2018)	10,039,352[2] 10.5%
Services
Former services
Track layout

33rd Street is a terminal station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 32nd Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in the Herald Square neighborhood of Midtown 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 late nights, weekends and holidays. 33rd Street serves as the northern terminus of all three lines.

History

Opening

It is not the original station on the site; the original station opened on November 10, 1910 serving PATH's predecessor, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad.[1] When the Independent Subway's Sixth Avenue line was being built in 1936 it was necessary to relocate the H&M 33rd Street station. The original station was closed in December 1937, and a temporary terminal was built at 28th Street, one stop south.[3] A new terminal station located at 32nd Street was opened on September 24, 1939, at a cost of $500,000. Although the station is at 32nd Street, the 33rd Street name was retained.[4]

28th Street station

As part of this upgrade, the 28th Street station was closed and demolished. As a partial compensation for the loss of the station, an entrance to the new terminal was opened at 30th Street.[4] A "Gimbels passageway" was formerly used by pedestrians to connect to Penn Station a block to the west under 33rd Street. After years of safety and sanitation concerns, an epidemic of sexual assaults led to its closure in the 1980s.[5]

A train-car wash formerly operated at track 1 of the 33rd Street terminal. It was replaced by a wash that opened in mid-September 1993 in Jersey City. It was computer-operated, and designed to reclean and recycle the water used. More space for the operation was provided at Jersey City, allowing the detergent used on the cars to have more time to take effect. At 33rd Street, brushes began scrubbing the cars very soon after the detergent went on. Its completion allowed the PANYNJ to deactivate the car wash at 33rd Street, providing more flexibility in terminal operations there.[6]

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance, buses
B1	Upper mezzanine	South fare control
B2 Platform level	Side platform		North fare control, subway station
	Southbound	← HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (23rd Street) ← JSQ–33 (via HOB) weekends toward Journal Square (23rd Street)
	Island platform
	Southbound	← HOB–33 weekdays toward Hoboken (23rd Street) ← JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (23rd Street)
	Island platform
	Southbound	← JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward Journal Square (23rd Street)
	Side platform
B3	Lower mezzanine	Subway fare control
B4	Southbound local	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ do not stop here →

33rd Street station entrance

The present station has three tracks in a Spanish solution with two island platforms and two side platforms, located two stories below ground level.[7] There is a small mezzanine with turnstiles, located above the platforms, at the south end of the station. The tracks end at bumper blocks at the north end of the station, where ramps from each platform lead up to the northern turnstile area, located about one and a half stories below ground level.

Exits

At the south end of the 33rd Street station are two staircases, one to either side of Sixth Avenue between 30th and 31st Streets. The northern end contains exits to the northwest and northeast corners of Sixth Avenue and 32nd Street, and an elevator on the west side of Sixth Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets. From the northern end of the station, there are also passageways to the connected New York City Subway station and its own exits.

33rd St to 34th St subway cross-section
11th Av	10th & 9th Avs are skipped	8th Av	Madison Square Garden	7th Av	Storefronts	6th Av & Broadway		5th & Madison Avs are skipped	Park Av
mezzanine		A / C / E	concourse	1 / 2 / 3	Former Gimbel's passageway	mezz	PATH		6 / <6>
mezzanine		mezzanine	concourse	mezzanine		N / Q / R / W
7 / <7>			Penn Station			B/D/F/<F>/M

Nearby attractions

References

"M'Adoo Tubes Now Reach 33rd Street; First Through Train from the Downtown Terminal to New One in the Shopping Belt". The New York Times. November 3, 1910. p. 11. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
"PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
"Hudson Tube Terminus At 33d St. Closes Today" (PDF). The New York Times. December 26, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved July 21, 2016.
"HUDSON TUBE OPENS TERMINAL TODAY; Remodeled 33d St. Station Cost City $800,000 as Part of 6th Ave. Subway Expense CLOSED FOR TWO YEARS Two Train Platforms and 3 Sets of Tracks Among New Transit Equipment" (PDF). The New York Times. September 24, 1939. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
"Remembering the Gimbels tunnel". New York Post. November 28, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
Roberts, Donald (September 1993). "New Wash for PATH Cars". Pathways. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation. 25 (3): 1–3.
Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.

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[1910opening-1] "M'Adoo Tubes Now Reach 33rd Street; First Through Train from the Downtown Terminal to New One in the Shopping Belt". The New York Times. November 3, 1910. p. 11. Retrieved August 16, 2009.

[2018Ridership-2] "PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2019.

[3] "Hudson Tube Terminus At 33d St. Closes Today" (PDF). The New York Times. December 26, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved July 21, 2016.

[:0-4] "HUDSON TUBE OPENS TERMINAL TODAY; Remodeled 33d St. Station Cost City $800,000 as Part of 6th Ave. Subway Expense CLOSED FOR TWO YEARS Two Train Platforms and 3 Sets of Tracks Among New Transit Equipment" (PDF). The New York Times. September 24, 1939. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 1, 2018.

[5] "Remembering the Gimbels tunnel". New York Post. November 28, 2010. Retrieved February 1, 2018.

[6] Roberts, Donald (September 1993). "New Wash for PATH Cars". Pathways. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation. 25 (3): 1–3.

[tracks-7] Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.

PATH
Services	NWK–WTC HOB–WTC HOB–33 JSQ–33 JSQ–33 via HOB
Stations	Exchange Place Grove Street Harrison Hoboken Journal Square Newark Newport Christopher Street 9th Street 14th Street 23rd Street 33rd Street World Trade Center
Infrastructure	Dock Bridge Downtown Hudson Tubes PATH Lift Bridge Uptown Hudson Tubes
Historical/Former	Centre Street Bridge Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse Hudson Terminal Manhattan Transfer Park Place
Fares	SmartLink MetroCard OMNY (future)
Related	History of the PATH Port Authority of New York and New Jersey