World Trade Center station (PATH)

World Trade Center
Port Authority Trans-Hudson PATH rapid transit station
Interior of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in August 2016
General information
Location70 Vesey Street
Manhattan, New York City
Coordinates40°42′41″N 74°00′41″W / 40.7115°N 74.0114°W / 40.7115; -74.0114
Owned byPort Authority of New York and New Jersey
Line(s)Downtown Hudson Tubes
Platforms3 island platforms, 1 side platform
Tracks5
Connections
Construction
AccessibleYes
Other information
Websiteofficialworldtradecenter.com/oculus
History
Opened1971 (1971)
Rebuilt2003 (temporary), 2016
Passengers
201818,539,767[1]Increase 8%
Rank1 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station
Exchange Place
toward Newark
NWK–WTC Terminus
Exchange Place
toward Hoboken
HOB–WTC
(Weekdays)
Location
Map

World Trade Center station is a terminal station on the PATH system, within the World Trade Center complex in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It is served by the Newark–World Trade Center line at all times, as well as by the Hoboken–World Trade Center line on weekdays, and is the eastern terminus of both.

The World Trade Center station is near the site of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad's (H&M) Hudson Terminal, which opened in 1909. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey bought the bankrupt H&M system in 1961, rebranded it as PATH, and redeveloped Hudson Terminal as part of the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center station opened on July 6, 1971, as a replacement for Hudson Terminal, which was closed and demolished as part of the construction of the World Trade Center. Following the September 11 attacks, a temporary PATH station opened in 2003 while the World Trade Center complex was being rebuilt. Work on a permanent station building commenced in 2008. The main station house, the Oculus, opened on March 3, 2016, and the terminal was renamed the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, or "World Trade Center" for short.

The station has five tracks and four platforms in the middle of a turning loop. Trains from New Jersey use the loop to turn around and head back to New Jersey. The platforms are four floors below ground level. The floor immediately above the platforms is occupied by the station's fare mezzanine. The New York City Subway's WTC Cortlandt station is adjacent to and above the mezzanine.

The $4 billion Oculus station house, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, consists of white ribs that interlock high above the ground. The interior of the station house contains two underground floors, which house part of the Westfield World Trade Center mall. The transportation hub connects the various modes of transportation in Lower Manhattan, from the Fulton Center in the east to the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal in the west, and includes connections to various New York City Subway stations. It is the fifth-busiest transportation hub in the New York metropolitan area. The new station has received mixed reviews: although the hub has been praised for its design, it has also been criticized for its high costs and extended delays.

  1. ^ "PATH Ridership Report". Port Authority NY NJ. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 2018. Retrieved February 22, 2023.