The Desbrosses Street station was an express station on the demolished
IRT Ninth Avenue Line in
Manhattan
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,
New York City
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. It had three tracks, one
island platform
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and two
side platforms
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 ...
. It was served by trains from the
IRT Ninth Avenue Line. It opened on November 23, 1873 and closed on June 11, 1940. The next southbound stop was
Franklin Street, while the next southbound express stop was
Warren Street
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History
The street is crossed b ...
. The next northbound stop was
Houston Street
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, while the next northbound express stop was
Christopher Street
Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is the continuation of 9th Street west of Sixth Avenue.
It is most notable for the Stonewall Inn, which is located on Christopher S ...
. The station was located one block east of the
Desbrosses Street Ferry
The Desbrosses Street Ferry was a ferry route across the Hudson River (then called the North River) in the 19th and 20th centuries. It provided passengers with ferry service between the Pennsylvania Railroad's Exchange Place station at Jersey Cit ...
's slip which provided connections to the railroad terminals in at
Exchange Place and
Pavonia.
References
IRT Ninth Avenue Line stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1873
Railway stations closed in 1940
Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan
1873 establishments in New York (state)
1940 disestablishments in New York (state)
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