14th Street station (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)

14th St.
Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
Metropolitan Elevated Railroad station, 1882
General information
LocationWest 14th Street and 6th Avenue
New York, NY
Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan
Coordinates40°44′14″N 73°59′49″W / 40.7373°N 73.9969°W / 40.7373; -73.9969
Operated byInterborough Rapid Transit Company
Line(s)Sixth Avenue Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
History
OpenedJune 5, 1878; 146 years ago (June 5, 1878)
ClosedDecember 4, 1938; 85 years ago (December 4, 1938)[1]
Former services
Preceding station Interborough Rapid Transit Following station
18th Street Sixth Avenue Eighth Street

The 14th Street station was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two tracks and two side platforms, and was served by trains from the IRT Sixth Avenue Line. The station opened on June 5, 1878, and was designed by famed Hudson River School painter Jasper Francis Cropsey, a trained architect.[2] Beginning in 1907, the station had a connection to the 14th Street subway station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. It closed on December 4, 1938. The next southbound stop was Eighth Street. The next northbound stop was 18th Street. Two years later the station was replaced by the IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms of the 14th Street / Sixth Avenue Subway station complex.

  1. ^ "Days of Yore Recalled as 'L' Line Goes". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. December 5, 1938. p. 9. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  2. ^ Smith, Roberta (August 28, 1998). "Critic's Notebook; Home Is Where the Easel and Quirks Are". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 1, 2018. Retrieved April 29, 2018.