14th Street station (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)

Former Manhattan Railway elevated station (closed 1938) 14th Street (disambiguation)14th Street February 2025 IRT 14th St. File:New York by sunlight and gaslight - a work descriptive of the great American metropolis; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu (1882) (14593314449).jpg Metropolitan Elevated Railroad station, 1882 Former Manhattan Railway elevated station Interborough Rapid Transit Company Sixth Avenue Line 2 side platforms 2 West 14th Street and 6th Avenue Midtown Manhattan, Manhattan, New York 40.7373 N 73.9969 W dms inline,title June 5, 1878 December 4, 1938Days of Yore Recalled as 'L' Line Goes https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33411485/sixth_avenue_el_december_5_1938/ June 30, 2019 Rochester Democrat and Chronicle December 5, 1938 9 Newspapers.com July 1, 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190701021951/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33411485/sixth_avenue_el_december_5_1938/ live Former services IRT Sixth Avenue 18th Street Eighth Street The 14th Street station was a station on the demolished IRT Sixth Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two tracks and two side platforms, and was served by trains from the IRT Sixth Avenue Line. The station opened on June 5, 1878, and was designed by famed Hudson River School painter Jasper Francis Cropsey, a trained architect.Smith Roberta Critic's Notebook; Home Is Where the Easel and Quirks Are The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/arts/critic-s-notebook-home-is-where-the-easel-and-quirks-are.html August 28, 1998 April 29, 2018 May 1, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180501095653/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/arts/critic-s-notebook-home-is-where-the-easel-and-quirks-are.html live Beginning in 1907, the station had a connection to the 14th Street subway station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. It closed on December 4, 1938. The next southbound stop was Eighth Street. The next northbound stop was 18th Street. Two years later the station was replaced by the IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms of the 14th Street / Sixth Avenue Subway station complex. References http://stationreporter.net/6avl.htm Sixth Avenue Local Station Reporter January 25, 2009 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110724082930/http://stationreporter.net/6avl.htm July 24, 2011 Category:IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878 Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan Category:1878 establishments in New York (state) Category:1938 disestablishments in New York (state) Category:Sixth Avenue Category:14th Street (Manhattan) Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1938