Grove St. new entrance construction

[blasito]

I was quite suprised yesterday when I walked past the new Grove St PATH station entrance at Marin Blvd and C.Columbus Drive. I knew they were looking into building this, but didn't know they had even broken ground on it. It looks like most of the steel frame is up, and the PATH website says it will be open this spring, which looks likely. I bet they'd be this far along in Greenwich Village as well if the community opposition hadn't stalled it.

[Ken W2KB]

Used to be the station and entrance was under the PRR 'el' a bit to the west and then replaced by the present entrance. Where is the new entrance relative to the present one?

[Rich T]

It is on the east side of Marin Blvd (Henderson St) on the site of the Henderson Street Shops. Possibly a portion of the abandoned tunnel is being used as the location would be about the same.

[blasito]

www.panynj.gov/AboutthePortAuthority/PressCenter/
PressReleases/PressRelease/index.php?id=683

PORT AUTHORITY TO OPEN NEW GROVE STREET PATH STATION ENTRANCE ON SUNDAY, MAY 15

Date: May 13, 2005
Press Release Number: 55-2005

New Entrance Allows Passengers to Enter and Exit Station More Easily

The Port Authority will open a second entrance at PATH’s Grove Street Station in Jersey City at noon on Sunday, May 15, part of an ongoing program to improve customer service and increase capacity and safety at PATH facilities.

The glass-enclosed entrance is located at the east end of the station, on the corner of Marin Boulevard and Christopher Columbus Drive. It will allow the 10,000 passengers who use the station each weekday to enter and exit more easily.

Construction on the entrance began in late 2003. The $12.5 million project was completed by VRH Construction Corporation.

[communipaw]

www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/
base/news-0/111623474554960.xml

Little fanfare for opening of new PATH entrance

Monday, May 16, 2005
By BONNIE FRIEDMAN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
The glass-enclosed PATH entrance on Luis Muñoz Marin Boulevard and Christopher Columbus Drive opened amid little fanfare yesterday, as a handful of workers and Port Authority police officers looked on.

Joseph A. Riopel, manager of operations and support for the Port Authority, unlocked the metal gates at 12:30 p.m. - a half-hour later than expected. The opening was delayed because workers did not have the proper keys to activate the turnstiles Construction on the $12.5 million project began in late 2003. The old entrance at Grove Street and Newark Avenue will still be used, but the additional entrance is designed to alleviate the rush-hour crunch at the station, which serves 10,000 passengers each week day.

The new entrance may be bustling today, but riders looking to try out the new digs were few and far between yesterday. Emit Susurla, 30, a software engineer who lives near the station, said he only just learned that the modern-looking structure is in fact an entrance to the PATH train. "It looks better than the other," said Susurla, who was the first person to "officially" exit the turnstiles yesterday. "The other one's dingy. This looks cleaner and brighter." Susurla was not the only person who seemed surprised to find out about the project.

Bill Conklin, 42, who lives near the Grove Street PATH station, said he kept wondering what was being built at the site. "They did a nice job of it," said Conklin, as he strolled through the passageway that connects with the eastern end of PATH's Grove Street platform. "It gets so crowded down here."