The 18th Street station was a station on the demolished

IRT Sixth Avenue Line The IRT Sixth Avenue Line, often called the Sixth Avenue Elevated or Sixth Avenue El, was the second elevated railway in Manhattan in New York City, following the Ninth Avenue Elevated. The line ran south of Central Park, mainly along Sixth A ...

Manhattan, New York City Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five Boroughs of New York City, boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the List of co ...

. It had two tracks and two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s. It was served by trains from the

and opened in 1892. It closed on December 4, 1938, and was not replaced with a subway station on the

IND Sixth Avenue Line The IND Sixth Avenue Line is a rapid transit line of the B Division of the New York City Subway in the United States. It runs mainly under Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, and continues south to Brooklyn. The B, D, F, and M trains, which use th ...

. However, one block north of the station there was a 19th Street station on the

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) is a rapid transit system in the northeastern New Jersey cities of Newark, Harrison, Jersey City, and Hoboken, as well as Lower and Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is operated as a wholly owned subsid ...

that operated between 1908 and 1954. The next southbound stop was 14th Street. The next northbound stop was 23rd Street.

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IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations Railway stations in the United States opened in 1892 Railway stations closed in 1938 Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan 1938 disestablishments in New York (state) {{Manhattan-railstation-stub Sixth Avenue 1892 establishments in New York (state)