Battery Place station

The Battery Place station was a station on the demolished Ninth Avenue and Sixth Avenue elevated train lines in Manhattan, New York City. It was located at the southern terminus of Greenwich Street at the north end of Battery Park.

Battery Place
Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
General information
LocationBattery Place
New York, NY
Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
Coordinates40°42′16.37″N 74°0′54.02″W
Operated byInterborough Rapid Transit Company
Line(s)Sixth Avenue Line
Ninth Avenue Line
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
OpenedJune 5, 1883 (June 5, 1883)[1]
ClosedJune 11, 1940 (June 11, 1940)[2]
Former services
Preceding station Interborough Rapid Transit Following station
Rector Street
(Trinity Place)
toward 155th Street or Burnside Avenue
 Sixth Avenue
Local
 South Ferry
Terminus
Rector Street
(Greenwich Street)
toward 155th Street or Burnside Avenue
 Ninth Avenue
Local

The station had two tracks and two side platforms. It was served by trains from the IRT Sixth Avenue Line and IRT Ninth Avenue Line. It opened June 5, 1883.[3] One block north of the station, the Sixth Avenue El diverged to the east at Morris Street. It closed on June 11, 1940, though Sixth Avenue line trains stopped serving it when that el line was closed in 1938.

The next southbound stop was South Ferry. The next northbound stops were Rector Street for Ninth Avenue Line trains (which replaced the earlier Morris Street station), Rector Street for local Sixth Avenue Line trains, and Park Place for Sixth Avenue Line express trains.

References
  1. "A Station at Battery Place". New York Times. June 5, 1883. p. 5. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
  2. "Tonight to See City Pass Goal of Unification". New York Daily News. June 10, 1940. p. 37. Retrieved June 30, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. open access
  3. "A Station at Battery Place". New York Times. June 5, 1883. p. 5. Retrieved September 22, 2020.

Battery Place station seen in a colorized film from 1916


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