Exchange Place
View of the station platform
General information
Location	Exchange Place Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°42′58″N74°01′59″W / 40.7162°N 74.032981°W /40.7162; -74.032981
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line	Downtown Hudson Tubes
Platforms	2 inter-connectedside platforms cross-platform interchange
Tracks	2
Connections	HBLR atExchange Place NJ Transit Bus:1,63,64,68,80,81,82
Construction
Parking	480 spaceparking garage
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	July 19, 1909 (1909-07-19)[1]
Rebuilt	1989[2]
Passengers
2024	3,525,285[3]  26.5%
Rank	8 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station Grove Street towardNewark NWK–WTC World Trade Center Terminus Newport towardHoboken HOB–WTC (Weekdays) Weekends through January 2026 Newport towardJournal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) Grove Street towardJournal Square
Former services Preceding station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Following station Grove-Henderson Streets towardPark Place Park Place – Hudson Terminal Hudson Terminal Terminus
Track layout Legend toWorld Trade Center toNewport toGrove Street
Location

TheExchange Place station is astation on thePort Authority Trans–Hudson (PATH) rail system in thePaulus Hook neighborhood ofJersey City,Hudson County,New Jersey. The station is on theNewark–World Trade Center line betweenNewark Penn Station andWorld Trade Center all week and theHoboken–World Trade Center line during the day on weekdays to serviceHoboken Terminal. Exchange Place provides access to the Jersey City waterfront anda station on theHudson–Bergen Light Rail, where connections are available toBayonne andNorth Bergen.

Exchange Place station opened on July 19, 1909, as part of the original opening of theHudson and Manhattan Railroad between the formerPennsylvania Railroad terminal at Exchange Place andHudson Terminal. The station headhouse was rebuilt in 1989. Exchange Place station flooded after theSeptember 11 attacks and was closed until June 29, 2003, when it became a temporary terminal. Service returned to World Trade Center on November 23, 2003.

The original Exchange Place station opened on July 19, 1909 at the western end of theDowntown Hudson Tubes adjacent to thePennsylvania Railroad station andferry terminal. The above-ground entrance and platforms were refurbished in the late 1960s and early 1970s after thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey took over operations of theHudson and Manhattan Railroad.

A derailment on April 26, 1942 at this station resulted in five deaths and over 200 injuries. In that incident, the train operator Louis Vierbucken was charged with manslaughter, as he was under the influence of liquor. Court records recount that he "began to go faster and faster, disregarding warning signals and curves" and then the train derailed at the station.^[4]

The platforms were lengthened in 1987 to allow the station to accommodate eight-car trains.^[5] The present-day station entrance pavilion at Exchange Place was constructed at a cost of $66 million,^[6] and was dedicated on September 13, 1989. At this time, the surroundingPaulus Hook area was beginning to undergorevitalization with new office building construction. In April 1994, a new entrance to the Exchange Place station was opened, making the station ADA accessible. The new entrance was glass-enclosed and featured two elevators which led to a lower-level passageway 63 feet (19 m) down, from where another elevator went down the short distance to platform level.^[7][8]

The Exchange Place station was closed as a result of theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks, due to water from firefighting flooding the tunnels. Before the attacks, the station served 16,000 passengers daily.^[9] TheWorld Trade Center station was also crucial, as that station contained a loop that enabled trains to turn around and reverse direction. New trackwork was installed at a cost of $160 million,^[9] which included aninterlocking to allow the trains to switch tracks, thus enabling trains to terminate at Exchange Place.^[10] While the station was closed, the eight-car-long station platforms were lengthened by two car lengths so they could accommodate 10-car trains.^[11] On June 29, 2003, the Exchange Place PATH station reopened, restoring services to Newark and Hoboken.^[9] On November 23, 2003, service was restored to theWorld Trade Center site with the reopening of theWorld Trade Center station.^[12]

In February 2006, theTransportation Security Administration (TSA) established a pilot project to test airport-style security screening at the Exchange Place station.^[13]

In 2012, the station was inundated by 13 million US gallons (49,000 m³) of saltwater from the Hudson River, which had overflowed as a result ofHurricane Sandy. The PANYNJ later announced a resiliency project in which it planned to replace the glass revolving doors and windows that surround the turnstiles with a seven-foot-high concrete wall and aquarium glass several inches thick. The project would include in the installation of twoKevlar curtains.^[14]

In June 2019, the Port Authority released the PATH Improvement Plan.^[15][16][17] As part of the plan, two additional cross-corridors were to be added at Exchange Place.^[15] The construction of the cross-corridors was expected to be completed by 2022.^[18]

From January 2019 until June 2020, the Newark-World Trade Center route terminated at Exchange Place on almost all weekends for Sandy-related repairs, except on holiday weekends.^[19] The truncation was initially expected to last through all of 2020, but ended in June 2020, six months ahead of schedule.^[20]

The station entrance is located approximately 100 feet (30 m) west of the former, original station entrance. The station features three 150-foot (46 m)-long escalators that go down long and provide access to the platform level, located 75 feet (23 m) beneath street level.^[6] Connections are available to theHudson-Bergen Light Rail at street level.

West of the station (railroad north), there are five trackways: two outer tracks for Hoboken, two inner tracks for Newark, and one stub-end track connecting each of the Newark tracks. East of the station (railroad south), both lines continue into their weekday terminus.

The station has two vestibules, each containing oneside platform and one track for trains in a given direction.^[10] The platforms are connected through several corridors. There areswitches within the platform at the far western end of the station, where the HOB-WTC line's tracks diverge. As a result, only NWK-WTC trains can serve the whole platform.

Nearby attractions include theColgate Clock,Goldman Sachs Tower,Harborside Financial Center,Paulus Hook, and theHudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse.

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• PATH - Exchange Place
• 1970s image of the former Exchange Place H&M Station with PATH Signage (Hudson Tubes Website)

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• Railway stations in the United States opened in 1909

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