9th Street (PATH station)

9th Street
View of the Hoboken and Journal Square bound tracks from the platform
Location	Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue Manhattan, New York
Coordinates	40°44′03″N 73°59′56″W / 40.734210°N 73.998944°W / 40.734210; -73.998944Coordinates: 40°44′03″N 73°59′56″W / 40.734210°N 73.998944°W / 40.734210; -73.998944
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)	PATH:   HOB–33   JSQ–33   JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	New York City Subway: at West Fourth Street – Washington Square NYCT Bus: M5 NB, M8
History
Opened	1908
Electrified	600V (DC) Third Rail
Traffic
Passengers (2015)	1,681,876  7.2%
Services
Preceding station   PATH   Following station   Regular service   Christopher Street toward Hoboken HOB–33 14th Street toward 33rd Street Christopher Street toward Journal Square JSQ–33   Nights and weekends   Christopher Street toward Journal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) 14th Street toward 33rd Street

The 9th Street PATH station, opened on February 25, 1908, is located on Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas), in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood. It is served by the Journal Square – 33rd Street and Hoboken – 33rd Street services.

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 center island platform. It is located under Christopher Street, just South/West of where the PATH tracks curve under 6th Avenue. The IND Sixth Avenue Line's local tracks are to the outside of the PATH tracks, and the express tracks underneath, and are not visible from this station. Until 1941 there was an exit on the west side of Sixth Avenue between Waverly Place and Greenwich Avenue, currently a newsstand.

After the September 11, 2001 attacks, which resulted in the destruction of the vital World 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. While a new station near the World Trade Center has since reopened, the Port Authority plans to build a second entrance (pending environmental review) at this station, despite local opposition to the project. Residents are concerned that the project will endanger the surrounding neighborhood's fragile historic buildings (through the vibrations that major construction would cause) and disrupt business and traffic in the Village.

North of this station, at the curve, there are tunnel headings for a level junction with a never-built branch line that would have run to Astor Place on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line. The bellmouth for the proposed Astor Place connection north of this station runs for about 250 feet. 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.