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{{Short description|Former Manhattan Railway elevated station (closed 1938)}}
{{Other uses|14th Street (disambiguation){{!}}14th Street}}
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{{Infobox station
| style = IRT
| name = 14th St.
| image = 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
| image_caption = Metropolitan Elevated Railroad station, 1882
| type = Former [[Manhattan Railway]] elevated station
| operator = [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company]]
| line = [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue Line]]
| platforms = 2 [[side platform]]s
| tracks = 2
| address = West 14th Street and 6th Avenue<br>New York, NY
| borough = [[Midtown Manhattan]], [[Manhattan]]
| coordinates = {{coord|40.7373|N|73.9969|W|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| opened = {{start date and age|June 5, 1878}}
| closed = {{start date and age|December 4, 1938}}<ref>{{cite news |title=Days of Yore Recalled as 'L' Line Goes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33411485/sixth_avenue_el_december_5_1938/ |accessdate=June 30, 2019 |work=Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |date=December 5, 1938 |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com |archive-date=July 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701021951/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33411485/sixth_avenue_el_december_5_1938/ |url-status=live }} {{open access}}</ref>
| other_services_header=Former services
| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=IRT
|line2=Sixth Avenue|left2=18th Street|right2=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 platform]]s, 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.<ref name="NYT5">{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Roberta |title=Critic's Notebook; Home Is Where the Easel and Quirks Are |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/arts/critic-s-notebook-home-is-where-the-easel-and-quirks-are.html |date=August 28, 1998 |accessdate=April 29, 2018 |archive-date=May 1, 2018 |archive-url=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 |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 1907, the station had a connection to the [[14th Street (PATH station)|14th Street subway station]] of the [[Hudson and Manhattan Railroad]]. It closed on December 4, 1938. The next southbound stop was [[Eighth Street (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)|Eighth Street]]. The next northbound stop was [[18th Street (IRT Sixth Avenue Line)|18th Street]]. Two years later the station was replaced by the IND Sixth Avenue Line platforms of the [[14th Street / Sixth Avenue (New York City Subway)|14th Street / Sixth Avenue Subway station complex]].

==References==
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*{{cite web |url=http://stationreporter.net/6avl.htm |title=Sixth Avenue Local |work=Station Reporter |accessdate=January 25, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724082930/http://stationreporter.net/6avl.htm |archivedate=July 24, 2011}}



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[[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]]

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