The Christopher Street station was an express station on the demolished

IRT Ninth Avenue Line The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track Cable car ...

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in New York City. It had three tracks, one

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and two

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. It was served by trains from the IRT Ninth Avenue Line. It opened on November 3, 1873 and closed on June 11, 1940. On February 25, 1908, the

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad The Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City, and Hoboken, as well as Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owne ...

built a subway station just east of this station as part of the extension between Hoboken and 33rd Street. The next southbound local stop was

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. The next southbound express stop was Desbrosses Street. The next northbound stop was 14th Street for all trains.

References

External links

NYCsubway.org - The IRT Ninth Avenue Elevated Line-Polo Grounds Shuttle
IRT Ninth Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1873 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan 1873 establishments in New York (state) 1940 disestablishments in New York (state) Railway stations in the United States closed in 1940 {{Manhattan-railstation-stub