Pavonia/Newport (PATH station)

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Pavonia/Newport

Station statistics

Address

Pavonia and Washington
Newport, Jersey City, NJ

Lines

PATH:

HOB-WTC

JSQ-33

JSQ-33 (via HOB)

Other service

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, NY Waterway

Other information

Opened

1909

Services

Previous station		PATH	Next station
	Regular service
Grove Street toward Journal Square		JSQ-33	Christopher Street toward 33rd Street
Exchange Place toward World Trade Center		HOB-WTC	Hoboken Terminus
	Nights and weekends
Grove Street toward Journal Square		JSQ-33 (via HOB)	Hoboken toward 33rd Street

Pavonia/Newport is a PATH station located on Pavonia Avenue at the corner of Washington Boulevard in Newport, Jersey City, New Jersey.

1 History
2 Service
3 Nearby attractions
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

Opened on August 2, 1909 as the Erie station ^[1] (and later renamed to Pavonia Avenue, a street in the vicinity, until its present name was given in 1988), Pavonia/Newport has undergone a number of transformations. The station was originally constructed to connect to the Erie Railroad Terminal, which stood above the station. (The capitals of the station's columns still display the "E" of the Erie Railroad.) During this period, the station was so busy that a second platform had to be added to manage the flow of passengers from the over 30 passenger trains that ran in and out of the station hourly.

The station was not closely integrated into the Erie Railroad Terminal (the Erie had planned to build a new terminal near the H&M station but was prevented by a lack of funds), and a lengthy walk through tunnels was necessary in order to connect to the passenger trains above-ground. In response to this, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad installed a 100-foot long moving passageway known as "the Travelator". It was the first such moving walkway built in the United States; ^[1] it has long since been removed.

In 1956, the Erie Railroad consolidated their operations with the Lackawanna Railroad and moved to their terminal in Hoboken. A few years later, the small New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway ceased their operations at the Erie Terminal, which was torn down soon afterwards. Ridership at the Erie tube station declined sharply. For nearly 30 years, the station served only as a transfer station from one PATH line to another, and was totally closed on evenings and weekends.^[1]

However, beginning in the late 1980s the once-vacant railyards at Pavonia (on the west bank of the Hudson River) were replaced with high-density residential, office, and retail, which would later become known as Newport. Also in the late 1980s, the Pavonia Station underwent renovations, including improved lighting, artwork, and installation of an elevator. ^[2] The station underwent further renovations in 2003, with The LeFrak Organization, the primary developer of the Newport community, contributing toward the project. ^[3] This precipitated the re-opening of the side platform, which had been closed since the 1960s, on August 10, 2003. ^[4]

[edit] Service

During daytime and evening hours, trains bound for Hoboken and 33rd Street call at the side platform. The center platform is used for trains bound for the World Trade Center and Journal Square, and for all trains during the overnight hours.

The station is served by the Hoboken-World Trade Center and Journal Square-33rd Street trains.