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Christopher Street is a station on the PATH system. Located on Christopher Street between Greenwich and Hudson Streets in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of 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 weekends.

Christopher Street
PATH rapid transit station
The station platform as seen in 2007
General information
Location	137 Christopher Street Manhattan, New York
Coordinates	40.733602°N 74.006821°W / 40.733602; -74.006821
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	Uptown Hudson Tubes
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	New York City Subway: ​ at Christopher Street–Sheridan Square NYCT Bus: M8, M20 NB on Hudson Street
Construction
Disabled access	No
History
Opened	February 25, 1908
Passengers
2018	1,507,614[1]  4.6%
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station Weekdays Hoboken Terminus HOB–33 9th Street toward 33rd Street Newport toward Journal Square JSQ–33 Weeknights, Weekends, Holidays Hoboken toward Journal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) 9th Street toward 33rd Street
Track layout Legend to 9 St Hudson River to Newport or Hoboken

History

The station opened on February 25, 1908, as part of the H&M extension between New Jersey and 33rd Street.[2] It received a renovation in 1986, during which the station was closed completely for a period of time.[3]

The station has long seen heavy traffic not only from passengers going to Jersey City and Hoboken, but also by Manhattan residents traveling from Greenwich Village to Midtown.^{[citation needed]} The nearest subway station, Christopher Street-Sheridan Square, is a block away.[4]

The already busy station received even more passengers after the September 11, 2001 attacks, which resulted in the destruction of the World Trade Center PATH station. With Christopher Street now the closest PATH station to New Jersey, it experienced serious overcrowding. The Port Authority had to make it an exit-only station during the morning rush hour. The Port Authority planned to build a second entrance at Christopher and Bedford Street (a block and a half east of the current entrance), to ease overcrowding at the station, but local opposition caused the project to be canceled. Residents were concerned 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 in the Village.[5]

In 2002, Christopher Street station was used by an average of 7,400 people per day, or about 2.701 million per year. This was more than twice as many as the 1.314 million passengers that used the station during 2001. The Port Authority continues to look into the possibility of building a second entrance to service the 9th Street station, which is also opposed by some local residents.

Station layout

G	Street level	Exit/entrance, buses
B1	Mezzanine	Fare control
B2 Platform level	Southbound	←      HOB–33 (weekdays 6a-11p) toward Hoboken (Terminus) ←      JSQ–33 weekdays toward Journal Square (Newport) ←      JSQ–33 (via HOB) weekends toward Journal Square (Hoboken)
	Island platform
	Northbound	→      HOB–33 weekdays toward 33rd Street (9th Street) → →           JSQ–33 (via HOB weekends) toward 33rd Street (9th Street) →

The station entrance is in its own free-standing building, with a restored marquee displaying the original "Hudson Tunnels" name adorning the entranceway. Passengers descend a narrow stairway with a number of curves before arriving at the southwest end of the narrow center island platform.[6]

Biff Elrod's mural "Ascent-Descent" (showing images of users of the PATH trains, ascending or descending the stairs) originally painted on site in August 1986 as a temporary installation for the Public Art Fund, and later purchased by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was restored in 1999.

References

Notes

External links

• PATH - Christopher Street Station
• Hudson & Manhattan Railroad/Hudson Tubes
• PATH/Hudson & Manhattan Railroad at nycsubway.org
• Christopher Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

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