9th Street
Platform level
General information
Location	Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue Manhattan,New York
Coordinates	40°44′03″N73°59′59″W / 40.7341°N 73.9997°W /40.7341; -73.9997
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line	Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platforms	1island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	New York City Subway: ​​​​​​ atWest Fourth Street–Washington Square ​ atChristopher Street–Stonewall NYCT Bus:M8,M55
Construction
Accessible	No
History
Opened	February 25, 1908[1]
Passengers
2024	1,192,086[2]  10%
Rank	13 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station Weekdays Christopher Street towardHoboken HOB–33 14th Street toward33rd Street Christopher Street towardJournal Square JSQ–33 Weeknights, Weekends, Holidays Christopher Street towardJournal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) 14th Street toward33rd Street
Track layout Legend Never-built spur toAstor Place to14th Street toChristopher Street
Location

TheNinth Street station is astation on thePATH system. Located at the intersection of9th Street andSixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) in theGreenwich Village neighborhood ofManhattan,New York City, it is served by theHoboken–33rd Street andJournal Square–33rd Street lines on weekdays, and by theJournal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) line on weekends.

The construction of the Ninth Street station was particularly difficult. In 1900, construction workers for theHudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M), the PATH's predecessor, had to navigatequicksand formed from the water of the formerMinetta Creek above it. They could not break the surface of Sixth Avenue, which would have disrupted traffic.^[3] In 1907, the Degnon Contracting Company was building an extension to the H&M Railroad north of 9th Street and declared the water to have dried up, to the relief of area property owners who had previously spent thousands of dollars on pumps to rid their properties of water.^[4]

The station opened on February 25, 1908, as part of the H&M extension between New Jersey and33rd Street.^[1] Originally, there was an exit on the west side of Sixth Avenue between Waverly Place and Greenwich Avenue. The exit had been removed by 1941.^[5]

After theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks, which resulted in the destruction of the vitalWorld Trade Center station, Ninth Street experienced serious overcrowding. In 2002, Ninth Street was used by an average of 8,900 people per day, about 3.248 million per annum. This was 54% higher than the 1.496 million passengers that utilized this station in 2001.^[6]

In 2002, the Port Authority announced plans to build a second entrance at Christopher Street and Waverly Place (two blocks west of the current entrance), to ease overcrowding at the station.^[7][8] The project would have included a 75-by-25-foot (22.9 by 7.6 m) mezzanine,^[8] in addition to a staircase.^[7] The Port Authority would have spent $29.6 million on the project, which also included new entrances at theChristopher Street station.^[7] Residents expressed concerns that the project would endanger the surrounding neighborhood's fragile historic buildings (through the vibrations that a major construction project would cause) and disrupt business and traffic.^[5] Furthermore, the new entrances would have been within an intersection that was protected as part of a historic district around theStonewall Inn. Though theNew York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation had determined that the new entrances would not affect the historic district's appearance, preservationists opposed the entrances.^[7] Local opposition caused the project to be canceled.^[9] After a new station near the World Trade Center reopened in 2003, the Port Authority again planned to build a second entrance at the station.^[6]

In keeping with the "style" of PATH station entrances in Manhattan, the Ninth Street entrance is in the side of a building on the east side of Sixth Avenue. Passengers travel down a number of stairwells and through a narrow curved tunnel before descending to the north end of the platform. This underground station has two tracks and a centerisland platform. It is located under Christopher Street, just southwest of where the PATH tracks curve under 6th Avenue. TheIND Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks are to the east of the PATH tracks, and the express tracks underneath, and are not visible from this station.^[10]

Just east of the station, the tracks curve north onto Sixth Avenue, while the tunnel continues straight, a provision for alevel junction with a never-built branch line that would have run toAstor Place on theIRT Lexington Avenue Line.^{[11][12]: 22} Thebellmouth for the proposed Astor Place connection north of this station runs for about 250 feet (76 m). Large portions of the ring erecting machine from the original tunnel construction is in the bellmouth for the proposed extension, and the tunnel is also filled with equipment.^{[12]: 20 [13]}

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