9th Street station (PATH)

9th Street
PATH rapid transit station
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: M8, M55 NB
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

9th Street is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of 9th Street and Sixth Avenue 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.

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 east of the PATH tracks, and the express tracks underneath, and are not visible from this station. Just east of the station, the tracks curve north onto Sixth Avenue, while the tunnel continues straight, a provision 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.