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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.
Station layout
| G | Street Level | Exit/Entrance | |
| B1 | Mezzanine | Fare control at south end | |
| B2 Platform level |
Side platform, doors will open on the left 
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Fare control, one-way faregates, transfer to New York City Subway          trains at 34th Street-Herald Square
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| Southbound | HOB-33 toward Hoboken Terminal (23rd Street) JSQ-33 (via HOB) toward Journal Square (23rd Street) | ||
| Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
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| Southbound | HOB-33 toward Hoboken Terminal (23rd Street) JSQ-33 toward Journal Square (23rd Street) JSQ-33 (via HOB) toward Journal Square (23rd Street) | ||
| Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
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| Southbound | JSQ-33 toward Journal Square (23rd Street) JSQ-33 (via HOB) toward Journal Square (23rd Street) | ||
| Side platform, doors will open on the right
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| B3 | Subway mezzanine | Turnstiles for subway station | |
| B4 | Southbound local | do not stop here
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| Southbound express | do not stop here
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| Northbound express | -> do not stop here ->
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| Northbound local | -> do not stop here ->
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The present station has three tracks in a Spanish solution with two island platforms and two side platforms, located two stories below ground level.[3] 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.
History
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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7]
| 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
- Empire State Building
- Herald Square
- Koreatown
- Macy's
- Madison Square Garden
- Penn Station
- Manhattan Mall
References
- ^ a b "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 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved 2019.
- ^ Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Hudson Tube Terminus At 33d St. Closes Today" (PDF). The New York Times. December 26, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved 2016.
- ^ a b "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 2018.
- ^ "Remembering the Gimbels tunnel". New York Post. November 28, 2010. Retrieved 2018.
- ^ Roberts, Donald (September 1993). "New Wash for PATH Cars". Pathways. Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation. 25 (3): 1-3.
External links
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