33rd Street station (PATH)

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.

33rd Street
PATH rapid transit station
Location33rd Street and Sixth Avenue
Manhattan, New York
Coordinates40.749111°N 73.988240°W / 40.749111; -73.988240
Owned byPort Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platforms2 side platforms, 2 island platforms
Tracks3
ConnectionsNew 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 accessYes
History
OpenedNovember 10, 1910[1]
Rebuilt1939
Electrified600V (DC) third rail
Passengers
201810,039,352[2]  10.5%
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station
23rd Street
toward Hoboken
 HOB–33
Weekdays
 Terminus
23rd Street
toward Journal Square
 JSQ–33
Weekdays
JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Weeknights Weekends Holidays
Former services
Preceding station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Following station
28th Street
toward Summit Avenue
 Summit Avenue–33rd Street Terminus
Track layout
to 23 St

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
See also: 34th Street–Herald Square station § 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
  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.
  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.
  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.
  7. Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC 49777633 – via Google Books.

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