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{{Short description|Port Authority Trans-Hudson rail station}}
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| name               = Exchange Place
| style              = PATH
| image              = Exchange Place PATH platform.JPG
| image_caption      = View of the station platform
| address            = [[Exchange Place (Jersey City)|Exchange Place]]
| borough            = [[Jersey City, New Jersey]]
| coordinates        = {{coord|40.7162|-74.032981|type:railwaystation_region:US-NJ|display=inline,title}}
| owned              = [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]]
| line               = [[Downtown Hudson Tubes]]
| platform           = 2 inter-connected [[side platform]]s<br>[[cross-platform interchange]]
| tracks             = 2
| connections        = {{Unbulleted list
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   | {{bus icon}} [[NJ Transit Bus]]: {{NJ bus link|1|63|64|68|80|81}}
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| parking            = 480 space [[parking garage]]
| accessible         = Yes
| opened             = {{Start date|1909|07|19}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 20, 1909 |title=M'Adoo Tunnels Are Thrown Open |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39474494/hm_opens_july_20_1909/ 12] |work=The Paterson Morning Call |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/39474477/hm_opens_july_20_1909/ |access-date=November 23, 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}</ref>
| rebuilt            = 1989<ref>{{Cite book |last=French |first=Kenneth |title=Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City |publisher=[[Arcadia Publishing]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0738509662 |pages=93}}</ref>
| pass_year          = 2018
| passengers         = 5,129,804<ref name="PATH Ridership">{{Cite web |date=2018 |title=PATH Ridership Report |url=https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/about/stats.html |access-date=February 22, 2023 |website=Port Authority NY NJ |publisher=Port Authority of New York and New Jersey}}</ref>
| pass_percent       = 3.8
| pass_rank          = 8 of 13
| services           = {{Adjacent stations|system=PATH
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|line2=HOB-WTC|left2=Newport|right2=World Trade Center|note-mid2=(Weekdays)
}}
| other_services_header = Former services
| other_services_collapsible = yes
| other_services     = {{Adjacent stations|system=Hudson and Manhattan Railroad|line=Park Place-Hudson|left=Grove-Henderson Streets|right=Hudson Terminal}}
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The '''Exchange Place station''' is a [[metro station|station]] on the [[Port Authority Trans–Hudson]] (PATH) rail system in the [[Paulus Hook]] neighborhood of [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]], [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]], [[New Jersey]]. The station is on the [[Newark–World Trade Center]] line between [[Pennsylvania Station (Newark)|Newark Penn Station]] and [[World Trade Center station (PATH)|World Trade Center]] all week and the [[Hoboken–World Trade Center]] line during the day on weekdays to service [[Hoboken Terminal]]. Exchange Place provides access to the Jersey City waterfront and [[Exchange Place station (Hudson–Bergen Light Rail)|a station]] on the [[Hudson–Bergen Light Rail]], where connections are available to [[Bayonne, New Jersey|Bayonne]] and [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen]].

Exchange Place station opened on July 19, 1909, as part of the original opening of the [[Hudson and Manhattan Railroad]] between the former [[Exchange Place station (Pennsylvania Railroad)|Pennsylvania Railroad terminal]] at Exchange Place and [[Hudson Terminal]]. The station headhouse was rebuilt in 1989. Exchange Place station flooded after the [[September 11 attacks]] and was closed until June 29, 2003, when it became a temporary terminal. Service returned to World Trade Center on November&nbsp;23, 2003.

==History==

===Original station===
The original Exchange Place station opened on July 19, 1909 at the western end of the [[Downtown Hudson Tubes]] adjacent to the [[Exchange Place (PRR station)|Pennsylvania Railroad station]] and [[ferry slip|ferry terminal]]. The above-ground entrance and platforms were refurbished in the late 1960s and early 1970s<!--if you call replacing a sign "refurbishing" that is, although rebuilding the elevators may qualify.--> after the [[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]] took over operations of the [[Hudson and Manhattan Railroad]].<!--The westernmost elevators were rebuilt in the 1960s, the old hydraulic manual units replaced by automatic cars in the old shafts.-->

A derailment on April 26, 1942 at this station resulted in five deaths and over 200 injuries. In that incident, the train operator Louis Vierbucken was charged with manslaughter, as he was under the influence of liquor. Court records recount that he "began to go faster and faster, disregarding warning signals and curves" and then the train derailed at the station.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 15, 1942 |title=Motorman on Trial in Fatal Tube Crash |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/12/15/archives/motorman-on-trial-in-fatal-tube-crash-prosecutor-charges-in-opening.html<!--Old URL: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E1EFA3D59147B93C7A81789D95F468485F9 -->|access-date=September 4, 2009}}</ref>

===Present day===
The platforms were lengthened in 1987 to allow the station to accommodate eight-car trains.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1987-06-25|title='Longer' Waiting for PATH Riders|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-longer-waiting-for/161330678/|access-date=2024-12-21|work=The Jersey Journal|pages=53}}</ref> The present-day station entrance pavilion at Exchange Place was constructed at a cost of $66 million,<ref name="jj19890912">{{cite news |last=Stapinski |first=Helen |title='Exchange Place Day' will celebrate years of change |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-exchange-place-day/160884919/ |work=[[The Jersey Journal]] |date=1989-09-12 |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-exchange-place-day/160884919/ 1], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-exchange-place-day/160884941/ 6] |access-date=2024-12-14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> and was dedicated on September 13, 1989. At this time, the surrounding [[Paulus Hook]] area was beginning to undergo [[urban renewal|revitalization]] with new office building construction. In April 1994, a new entrance to the Exchange Place station was opened, making the station ADA accessible. The new entrance was glass-enclosed and featured two elevators which led to a lower-level passageway {{Convert|63|feet|meters}} down, from where another elevator went down the short distance to platform level.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=April 1994 |title=New Exchange Place Entrance Improves Access to Station |journal=Pathways |publisher=Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation |volume=26 |issue=1 |pages=1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Ross, Bruce |date=May 1991 |title=Access for the disabled; Port Authority of New York and New Jersey policy for disabled passengers |page=Vol. 18; No. 4–5; Pg. 40 |publisher=Mass Transit}}</ref>
[[File:PATH exchange entrance.jpg|left|thumb|Exchange Place station exterior]]
The Exchange Place station was closed as a result of the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], due to water from firefighting flooding the tunnels. Before the attacks, the station served 16,000 passengers daily.<ref name="reopen">{{Cite news |last=Weiser |first=Benjamin |date=June 29, 2003 |title=Closed Since 9/11, a PATH Station Is Set to Reopen Today |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/nyregion/closed-since-9-11-a-path-station-is-set-to-reopen-today.html |access-date=September 4, 2009}}</ref> The [[World Trade Center (PATH station)|World Trade Center]] station was also crucial, as that station contained a loop that enabled trains to turn around and reverse direction. New trackwork was installed at a cost of $160 million,<ref name="reopen" /> which included an [[interlocking]] to allow the trains to switch tracks, thus enabling trains to terminate at Exchange Place.<ref name="tracks">{{NYCS const|trackref|trackbook3}}</ref> While the station was closed, the eight-car-long station platforms were lengthened by two car lengths so they could accommodate 10-car trains.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chapter 1: Restoring and Renewing Lower Manhattan's Transportation Infrastructure |url=http://www.renewnyc.com/plan_des_dev/transportation/pdf/chapter1_part1.pdf |access-date=October 31, 2018 |website=Renew NYC |publisher=Lower Manhattan Development Corporation}}</ref> On June 29, 2003, the Exchange Place PATH station reopened, restoring services to Newark and Hoboken.<ref name="reopen" /> On November 23, 2003, service was restored to the [[World Trade Center site]] with the reopening of the [[World Trade Center (PATH station)|World Trade Center]] station.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=November 24, 2003 |title=Again, Trains Put the World In Trade Center |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/nyregion/again-trains-put-the-world-in-trade-center.html |access-date=January 25, 2018 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

In February 2006, the [[Transportation Security Administration]] (TSA) established a pilot project to test airport-style security screening at the Exchange Place station.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Garcia |first=Michelle |date=February 8, 2006 |title=Rail Passengers Screened In Test of Tighter Security |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020701816.html |access-date=September 4, 2009}}</ref>

In 2012, the station was inundated by {{convert|13|e6gal|m3}} of saltwater from the Hudson River, which had overflowed as a result of [[Hurricane Sandy]]. The PANYNJ later announced a resiliency project in which it planned to replace the glass revolving doors and windows that surround the turnstiles with a seven-foot-high concrete wall and aquarium glass several inches thick. The project would include in the installation of two [[Kevlar]] curtains.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=McGeehan |first1=Patrick |last2=Hu |first2=Winnie |date=October 29, 2017 |title=Five Years After Sandy, Are We Better Prepared? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/nyregion/five-years-after-sandy-are-we-better-prepared.html |access-date=October 1, 2018 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

In June 2019, the Port Authority released the PATH Improvement Plan.<ref name=":27">{{Cite web |title=PATH Implementation Plan |url=http://www.panynj.gov/path/pdf/PATH_Implementation_Plan.pdf |access-date=June 20, 2019 |website=PANYNJ |archive-date=June 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621003726/http://www.panynj.gov/path/pdf/PATH_Implementation_Plan.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2019 |title=Port Authority announces plan to increase PATH capacity, reduce delays |url=https://abc7ny.com/5355269/ |access-date=June 21, 2019 |website=ABC7 New York}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Higgs |first=Larry |date=June 20, 2019 |title=PATH will spend $1B to ease overcrowding, delays that mess up your commute |url=https://www.nj.com/traffic/2019/06/path-will-spend-1b-to-ease-overcrowding-delays-that-mess-up-your-commute.html |access-date=June 21, 2019 |website=nj.com}}</ref> As part of the plan, two additional cross-corridors were to be added at Exchange Place.<ref name=":27" /> The construction of the cross-corridors was expected to be completed by 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bringing PATH into the 21st Century |url=https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/modernizing-path.html |access-date=February 25, 2020 |website=panynj.gov}}</ref>

From January 2019 until June 2020, the Newark-World Trade Center route terminated at Exchange Place on almost all weekends for Sandy-related repairs, except on holiday weekends.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Ameena |date=2018-12-05 |title=World Trade Center's PATH station will close for 45 weekends for repairs |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2018/12/5/18127560/world-trade-center-path-station-weekend-closures |access-date=2019-01-03 |website=Curbed NY}}</ref> The truncation was initially expected to last through all of 2020, but ended in June 2020, six months ahead of schedule.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 5, 2020 |title=Six Months Ahead of Schedule, PATH WTC Station Reopens on Weekends Following Extensive Tunnel Repairs Necessitated by Superstorm Sandy |url=https://www.panynj.gov/port-authority/en/press-room/press-release-archives/2020-press-releases/six-months-ahead-of-schedule--path-wtc-station-reopens-on-weeken.html |publisher=[[Port Authority of New York and New Jersey]]}}</ref>

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==Station layout==
The station entrance is located approximately {{convert|100|ft|m}} west of the former, original station entrance. The station features three {{convert|150|ft|m|adj=on}}-long escalators that go down long and  provide access to the platform level, located {{convert|75|ft|m}} beneath street level.<ref name="jj19890912" /> Connections are available to the [[Hudson-Bergen Light Rail]] at street level.

West of the station (railroad north), there are five trackways: two outer tracks for Hoboken, two inner tracks for Newark, and one stub-end track connecting each of the Newark tracks. East of the station (railroad south), both lines continue into their weekday terminus.

The station has two vestibules, each containing one [[side platform]] and one track for trains in a given direction.<ref name="tracks" /> The platforms are connected through several corridors. There are [[railroad switch|switch]]es within the platform at the far western end of the station, where the HOB-WTC line's tracks diverge. As a result, only NWK-WTC trains can serve the whole platform.

==Nearby attractions==
Nearby attractions include the [[Colgate Clock (Jersey City)|Colgate Clock]], [[30 Hudson Street|Goldman Sachs Tower]], [[Harborside (Jersey City)|Harborside Financial Center]], [[Paulus Hook]], and the [[Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse]].

==References==
{{Commons category|Exchange Place (PATH station)}}
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==External links==
*[https://www.panynj.gov/path/en/stations/exchange-place-station.html PATH - Exchange Place]
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20071013022533/http://www.hudsoncity.net/tubesenglish/carleton-exchangeplaceentrance-800.jpg 1970s image of the former Exchange Place H&M Station with PATH Signage (Hudson Tubes Website)]}}

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