Hanover Square station

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.^[1]

Hanover Square
Former Manhattan Railway elevated station
Hanover Square station, 1936
General information
Location	Pearl Street and Hanover Square New York, New York Lower Manhattan, Manhattan
Coordinates	40°42′16.78″N 74°0′33.36″W
Operated by	Interborough Rapid Transit Company City of New York (after 1940)
Line(s)	Third Avenue Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
History
Opened	August 26, 1878; 146 years ago (August 26, 1878)
Closed	December 22, 1950; 73 years ago (December 22, 1950)
Former services
Preceding station Interborough Rapid Transit Following station Fulton Street toward 129th Street Second Avenue Local South Ferry Terminus Third Avenue Local

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

1. Parke, Richard H. (December 23, 1950). "Old 'El' Link Ends Its 72-Year Uproar". The New York Times. p. 23. Retrieved November 2, 2011.

External links

• The Third Avenue Elevated (NYCSubway.org)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100609061601/http://www.stationreporter.net/3avl.htm