155th Street station (IRT Ninth Avenue Line)

New York City Subway station in Manhattan (closed 1958) 155th Street (disambiguation)155th Street April 2021 November 2020 IRT 155th St. Former Manhattan Railway elevated station Interborough Rapid Transit CompanyCity of New York (after 1940)New York City & Northern Railroad (starting 1881)New York & Northern RailwayNew York and Putnam RailroadNew York Central & Hudson River RailroadNew York Central Railroad (until 1918) Ninth Avenue LinePutnam Division (until 1918) 2 island platforms (1913–1940)1 island platform (1940-1958)http://nycsubway.org/perl/show?8296 Showing Image 8296 1950s August 4, 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090314015521/http://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?8296 March 14, 2009 live 5 (1913–1940)2 (1940–1958) West 155th Street and Frederick Douglass BoulevardNew York, New York Harlem and Coogan's Bluff, Manhattan 40.8301 N 73.9382 W type:railwaystation_region:US-NY inline,title 1879 12 1http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach/chapter18.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161013210008/http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach/chapter18.html October 13, 2016 November 13, 2022 "The two roads are in perfect accord" 1878-1879 Joseph Brennan 1958 08 31Polo Grounds El is Doomed https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33413392/9th_ave_doomed_august_20_1958/ June 30, 2019 New York Daily News August 20, 1958 C8 Newspapers.com Former services IRT Ninth Avenue Express Sedgwick Avenue 145th Street Sixth Avenue 151st Street Ninth Avenue Local 151st Street New York Central Railroad Putnam Division High Bridge (until 1918) The 155th Street station was an elevated railway station in Manhattan, New York City, that operated from 1870 until 1958. It served as the north terminal of the IRT Ninth Avenue Line from its opening until 1918 and then as the southern terminal of a surviving stub portion from 1940 until its closure in 1958. It had two tracks and one island platform. History When the Ninth Avenue El was extended to Harlem in 1879http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_9th_Avenue_Elevated-Polo_Grounds_Shuttle The 9th Avenue Elevated-Polo Grounds Shuttle nycsubway.org 2012 November 13, 2022 it terminated at 155th Street as a matter of geographic necessity (the hills of Washington Heights and Highbridge would have made a northward expansion difficult) and demand (northern Manhattan and the Bronx were still sparsely populated). Development came to the area with the New York City and Northern Railroad (later known as the Putnam Division) building its terminal at 155th Street in 1881 and the Polo Grounds relocating to a site just west of the station in 1889. The line expanded into The Bronx on June 1, 1918, when the Putnam Bridge, which had been built in 1881 to carry the Putnam Division across the Harlem River, was leased by the IRT and connected to the 9th Avenue line, allowing it to join the IRT Jerome Avenue Line and add intermediate stops at Sedgwick Avenue and Anderson–Jerome Avenues. With the building of the Eighth Avenue Line and Concourse Line by the city-owned Independent Subway System in the 1930s, the Ninth Avenue El was rendered redundant. On June 12, 1940, the el was closed entirely except for the portion from this station north to provide a connection from the Jerome Avenue Line to the Polo Grounds. The retained service, known as the Polo Grounds Shuttle, ran from 155th Street to the 167th Street on the IRT Jerome Avenue Line. Though still moderately successful at its outset, the Polo Grounds Shuttle eventually suffered at the hands of the Concourse line and declining ridership of the New York Central's Putnam Division, the successor to New York and Northern. The need for the shuttle decreased when the Polo Grounds went vacant in 1957 after the baseball Giants moved to San Francisco and football Giants moved across the river to Yankee Stadium. On May 29, 1958, the New York Central ceased operations on the Putnam Division, which rendered the shuttle unnecessary. Three months later, at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 31, the shuttle was shut down and the elevated portion of the line demolished. The two underground stations were abandoned, but remain intact.December 2017 References External links nycsubway.org — The 9th Avenue Elevated Polo Grounds Shuttle http://stationreporter.net/9avl.htm Ninth Avenue Local Station Reporter January 26, 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110724082945/http://stationreporter.net/9avl.htm July 24, 2011 http://www.stationreporter.net/9avx.htm Ninth Avenue Express Station Reporter January 25, 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110609002545/https://www.stationreporter.net/9avx.htm June 9, 2011 Category:IRT Ninth Avenue Line stations Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1879 Category:1879 establishments in New York (state) Category:1958 disestablishments in New York (state) Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1958