NEWS |
85-99: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE , July 6, 1999
The four Manhattan stations to be renovated are Christopher Street, Ninth Street, 14th Street and 23rd Street. Each station entrance will be closed for about one month at a time while construction work proceeds from the platform level to each station's entrance.
"As part of our efforts to provide the best possible service, we want to create a clean, attractive and pleasant environment for our customers," said PATH Director and General Manager Michael P. DePallo. "This renovation program will brighten each station from its turnstiles to its platforms to its entrance areas with new coats of paint, new wall and floor tiles, new handrails and other improvements," he said.
This morning, the downtown side of the 14th Street station, on Sixth Avenue, was closed. During this phase of construction, trains will not stop at the downtown 14th Street platform; however, the 14th Street uptown entrance and platform will remain open. Travelers who want to take PATH downtown from 14th Street Station should use the uptown side of the 14th Street Station, go two stops to the 33rd Street Terminal, and change for the Journal Square - or Hoboken-bound train.
Station entrance closures will follow this approximate schedule and order:
--> July - 14th Street downtown
--> August - 14th Street uptown
--> September - Christopher Street
--> October - 23 Street uptown
--> November - 23 Street downtown
--> December - Ninth Street
Station public address announcements will be made, and posters and flyers will be distributed throughout the system before each station closes.
PATH, the rail transit operating subsidiary of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award from the American Public Transit Association last year. It served nearly 65 million riders last year, a record. It operates 24-hour service between terminals in Newark, Hoboken and lower and midtown Manhattan.