33rd Street station (PATH)

33rd Street
Location	33rd Street and Sixth Avenue Manhattan, New York
Coordinates	40°44′57″N 73°59′18″W / 40.749111°N 73.988240°WCoordinates: 40°44′57″N 73°59′18″W / 40.749111°N 73.988240°W
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	PATH:   HOB–33   JSQ–33   JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Platforms	2 side platforms, 2 island platforms
Tracks	3
Connections	New York City Subway: at 34th Street – Herald Square NYCT Bus: M5, M7, M34 / M34A SBS
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	1910
Rebuilt	1939
Electrified	600V (DC) Third Rail
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	11,208,906[1]  2.2%
Services
Preceding station   PATH   Following station   Regular service   23rd Street toward Hoboken HOB–33 Terminus Hoboken Terminus 23rd Street toward Journal Square JSQ–33 Newport toward Journal Square   Nights and weekends   23rd Street toward Journal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) Terminus Hoboken toward Journal Square

The 33rd Street PATH station, opened on November 10, 1910, is located on Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), between 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan, under Greeley Square and just south of Herald Square.^[2]

Station layout

G	Street Level	Exit/Entrance
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control, one-way faregates, transfer to New York City Subway  trains at 34th Street – Herald Square
B2 Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	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
	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
	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
B3	Southbound local	← do not stop here
	Southbound express	← do not stop here
	Northbound express	→ do not stop here →
	Northbound local	→ do not stop here →

Track layout
Legend
to 23 St

The present station has three tracks in a Spanish solution with two island platforms and two side platforms.^[3] It is not the original station on the site. 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.^[4] A new terminal station located at 32nd Street was opened September 1939. Although the station is at 32nd Street, the 33rd Street name was retained.

As part of this upgrade, the H & M station at 28th Street, which had opened on November 10, 1910, 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. A "Gimbels passageway" was formerly used by pedestrians to connect to Penn Station a block to the west under 33rd Street, but was closed in the 1980s for security reasons.

Nearby attractions

• Empire State Building
• Herald Square
• Koreatown
• Macy's
• Madison Square Garden
• Manhattan Mall

References

1. "PATH Ridership Report" (PDF). pathnynj.gov. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
2. "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 2009-08-16.
3. Marrero, Robert (2015-09-13). "469 Stations, 846 Miles" (PDF). B24 Blog, via Dropbox. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
4. "Hudson Tube Terminus At 33d St. Closes Today". The New York Times. December 26, 1937. p. 20. Retrieved 2016-07-21.

External links

Media related to 33rd Street (PATH station) at Wikimedia Commons

• PATH - 33rd Street Station
• 32nd Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• 30th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View