Hanover Square station
{{Short description|Former Manhattan Railway elevated station (closed 1950)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox station | style = IRT
| type = Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
| operator = Interborough Rapid Transit Company
City of New York (after 1940)
| line = Third Avenue Line
| name = Hanover Square
| image = File:Hanover Square, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482822).jpg
| image_caption = Hanover Square station, 1936
| platforms = 1 island platform
| tracks = 2
| address = Pearl Street and Hanover Square
New York, New York
| borough = Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|16.78|N|74|0|33.36|W|region:US|display=inline,title}}
| structure = Elevated
| opened = {{start date and age|August 26, 1878}}
| closed = {{start date and age|December 22, 1950}}
| other_services_header=Former services
| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=IRT
|line1=Second Avenue|type1=Local|left1=Fulton Street|right1=South Ferry
|line2=Third Avenue|type2=Local|left2=Fulton Street|right2=South Ferry}}
}}
The Hanover Square station was an express station on the demolished IRT Third Avenue Line in Manhattan, New York City. It had two tracks and one island platform. The station was originally built in 1878 by the New York Elevated Railroad. The next stop to the north was Fulton Street. The next stop to the south was South Ferry. The station closed on December 22, 1950.{{cite news |title=Old 'El' Link Ends Its 72-Year Uproar |first=Richard H. |last=Parke
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/12/23/archives/old-el-link-ends-its-72year-uproar-lower-east-side-residents-are.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 23, 1950 |page=23 |accessdate=2011-11-02}}
In popular culture
Hanover Square station is immortalised in the last movement of Orchestral Set No. 2 by Charles Ives, a recollection of the day the news broke that the liner the Lusitania had been sunk in 1915.
References
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External links
- [https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/showpix?nsta=311110 The Third Avenue Elevated (NYCSubway.org)]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20100609061601/http://www.stationreporter.net/3avl.htm
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Category:IRT Third Avenue Line stations
Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878
Category:1878 establishments in New York (state)
Category:1950 disestablishments in New York (state)
Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan
Category:Railway stations in the United States closed in 1950
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