Grove Street station (PATH)

Grove Street
PATH rapid transit station
Grove Street station platform
General information
Location	Newark Avenue and Grove Street Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°43′11″N 74°02′35″W / 40.719671°N 74.043117°W / 40.719671; -74.043117
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 80, 81, 82, 86 A&C Bus: 31
Construction
Parking	Paid parking nearby
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	September 6, 1910 (1910-09-06)[1]
Rebuilt	2003
Previous names	Grove-Henderson Streets
Passengers
2018	6,289,356[2]  27.3%
Rank	6 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station Journal Square toward Newark NWK–WTC Exchange Place toward World Trade Center Weekdays Journal Square Terminus JSQ–33 Newport toward 33rd Street Weeknights, Weekends, Holidays Journal Square Terminus JSQ–33 (via HOB) Newport toward 33rd Street
Former services Preceding station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Following station Summit Avenue toward Park Place Park Place – Hudson Terminal Exchange Place toward Hudson Terminal
Track layout Legend to Exchange Place to Newport to former Henderson Yard to Journal Square

Grove Street station (originally Grove–Henderson Streets) is a station on the PATH system. Located at the intersection of Grove Street, Newark Avenue and Railroad Avenue in the Downtown neighborhood of Jersey City, New Jersey, it is served by the Newark–World Trade Center line at all times, the Journal Square–33rd Street line on weekdays (except for during the late-evening and early-morning hours), and the Journal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) line on weekends and during late-evening and early-morning weekday hours.

History

Eastern entrance at Marin Boulevard

Western entrance at Grove Street

The station opened on September 6, 1910.

Originally the station had exits at either end. The western stair led to the intersection of Grove Street and Newark Avenue and a simple kiosk underneath the Pennsylvania Railroad's mainline viaduct, which ran above what is now Christopher Columbus Drive. The station's easterly end exited to Henderson Street (now Marín Boulevard). The railroad viaduct was taken down in the late 1960s, and the station was reconfigured in the 1970s. As part of the reconstruction, the eastern and western exits were closed in favor of a mezzanine situated in a triangle formed by the intersections of Grove Street, Newark Avenue, and Columbus Drive. Two stairways from the platform level connect to the mezzanine, with fare turnstiles at the top of each stairway. Two exits lead to street level; one, with escalators, leads to the station's primary kiosk, while the other is a stairway that leads to the south side of Columbus Drive.

East of Grove Street Station was Henderson Street Yard, which closed in 1990 upon the opening of the Harrison Car Maintenance Facility in Harrison, New Jersey.^[3]

As a result of an increase in ridership, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) reopened the easterly exit and built a second kiosk at the corner of Columbus Drive and Marín Boulevard. Despite the fact that construction of the eastern entrance/exit took place between 2003–2005, the station was not made compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.^[4] In September 2011, a federal judge found that it was technically feasible to do so and ordered the PANYNJ to make the station accessible.^[5][6] In 2014, the PANYNJ agreed to install an elevator at the western end of the station.^[7] Construction of elevator access began in April 2015,^[8] and the elevator opened in June 2017. However, a month after opening, it experienced several breakdowns.^[9]

In June 2019, the Port Authority released the PATH Improvement Plan.^[10][11][12] As part of the plan, every train on the NWK-WTC route will consist of 9-car trains. To accomplish this, the platform at Grove Street will be extended at the Marin Boulevard end of the station.^[10] The platform extension was expected to be completed by 2022.^[13] The Port Authority put the contract to extend the platform out to bid on January 28, 2020, and expected the cost of the project to be between $15 and $20 million. To extend the platform 51.33 feet (15.65 m), structural walls will be replaced by support columns.^[14]

Station layout

The station has two tracks and one island platform.^[1]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance, buses
M	Mezzanine	Fare control, station agent
P Platform level	Westbound	←      NWK–WTC toward Newark (Journal Square) ←           JSQ-33 (weekends via HOB) toward Journal Square (Terminus)
	Island platform
	Eastbound	→      NWK–WTC toward World Trade Center (Exchange Place) → →           JSQ-33 (weekends via HOB) toward 33rd Street (Newport) →

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grove Street (PATH station).

• Grove Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Marin Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

This page was last edited on 1 April 2024, at 08:35