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{{Short description|Former Manhattan Railway elevated station (closed 1938)}}<br />
{{Other uses|Eighth Street station (disambiguation){{!}}Eighth Street station}}<br />
{{Infobox station | style = IRT<br />
| name = Eighth St.<br />
| image = File:Jefferson Market Court, southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, looking north from southwest corner of Sixth Avenue and West 9th Street, Manhattan (NYPL b13668355-482552).jpg<br />
| image_caption = The [[Jefferson Market Courthouse]], just to the north of the Eighth Street station<br />
| type = Former [[Manhattan Railway]] elevated station<br />
| operator = [[Interborough Rapid Transit Company]]<br />
| line = [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line|Sixth Avenue Line]]<br />
| platforms = 2 [[side platform]]s<br />
| tracks = 2 <br />
| address = West 8th Street and 6th Avenue<br>New York, NY<br />
| borough = [[Lower Manhattan]], [[Manhattan]]<br />
| coordinates = {{coord|40|44|0.96|N|73|59|58.52|W|region:US|display=inline,title}}<br />
| structure = Elevated<br />
| opened = {{start date and age|June 5, 1878}}<br />
| closed = {{start date and age|December 4, 1938}}<ref name="closure">{{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}} {{open access}}</ref><br />
| other_services_header=Former services<br />
| other_services={{Adjacent stations|system=IRT<br />
|line2=Sixth Avenue|left2=14th Street|right2=Bleecker Street}}<br />
|}}<br />
The '''Eighth 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. It was served by trains from the [[IRT Sixth Avenue Line]] and opened on June 5, 1878.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RpL7h2MCpAC&q=%22June+5%2C+1878%22+ELEVATED&pg=RA30-PA195|title=Superior Court of the City of New York, General Term|date=1888|pages=195|language=en}}</ref> It closed on December 4, 1938.<ref name="closure"/><br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:IRT Sixth Avenue Line stations]]<br />
[[Category:Railway stations in the United States opened in 1878]]<br />
[[Category:Former elevated and subway stations in Manhattan]]<br />
[[Category:1878 establishments in New York (state)]]<br />
[[Category:1938 disestablishments in New York (state)]]<br />
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[[Category:Sixth Avenue]]<br />
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