19th Street PATH Station (Closed 1954)

An abandoned station on the PATH midtown line. Spooky, but strangely fascinating. The station was closed in 1954 to speed the passage of the trains. It now houses ventilation equipment. Shot from the back of a downtown train departing 23rd street. The old station appears on the left about 17 seconds in.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• PATH
• New
• York
• NYC
• trains
• subway
• abandoned
• 1954
• Chelsea

[aruz134]

hay tribecaton please a negative version to see the station clearly

[tribecatom]

How do you do negative version?

[nhoverhaulinfan2]

Why was it closed

[tribecatom]

To speed up the trains and presumably it wasn't being used enough.

[Shinycelebi]

This and 28th st were both closed. Although 28th St was closed because it was right next to the old 33rd st, which then also moved abit further up. I wish I could find photos of 28th st but nothing seems to exist, especially now considering it's boarded up.

[Tubeboy732]

Interesting that someone actually go video of it, all I have is a really old picture of it. However today while I was on the PATH I good a good look at it because there was work being done on the tracks, nothing is there now but equipment but, you can definitely tell that it was a station at one point in time. Me being the enthusiast that I am I still wanna go there and get a really good look at things.

[Tubeboy732]

Yehah, I look at both ever time I get on PATH but, 28th street was pretty much pointless and 19th Street is still there but it's "Equipment Station" now...

[ahm84ss]

hey man how'd it go, I'd love to view those pics. I heard about this old station on nytimes i think. seems cool. lemme know if you put pics up online.

[koolgiy]

Darn. Ill find a way. lol.

Either that or Ill try taking photos of the 18th Street Station on the IRT East (4,5)

[tribecatom]

It was a decision made by the Port Authority after 9/11. There have been several plots to blow up the PATH and a ban on photography would make those plots that bit harder.