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Re: (erielack) Tad's Steaks (in NYC)

From: walter smith

>    As far as the Pavonia Ave. station of the Hudson Tubes 
> goes................. U got to think when this was built, 
> there was ONLY the ERIE Station & roundhouse, >so YES it 
> probly means the ERIE. Man, sometimes it was scary going 
> down into that station late at night. No more crowds for 
> the ERIE commuter trains, just >us few ERIE/EL employees. 
> Not like at Hoboken where thee was a crowd late at night 
> or early in the AM. I noticed that PATH had one track OOS 
> & there was >cable rels piled up on the platforms on the 
> other side. I guess they were replacing wiring & figured 
> this was a good place to stash it until used. After all, 
> what >would the crooks do??? Roll a huge cable reel up the 
> steps???

Walt,

PATH renamed this "Newport" after "Pavonia-Newport" after 
"Pavonia" after "Erie-Pavonia" after "Erie."

No tracks have been regularly out of service, but the 
platform on the east side used to separate uptown waiting 
passengers from downtown waiting passengers in Erie days was 
OOS from the end of passenger service in 1960 until a few 
years ago. It was used for maintenance storage, as you note.

Some will remember the pioneering moving sidewalk that the 
Erie/H&M installed in the early 1950s -- although, as you 
say, the idea of rolling those cable reels around might be 
daunting, but it didn’t stop vandals from taking the 
moving-sidewalk motor out and rolling it down onto the 
tracks, attempting to derail a PATH train one night.

Until the start of redevelopment of the area after sale of 
property by the [post conveyance] EL Corp., the mezzanine 
was there al the way to the former under-track concourse. 
About 1967, I walked through and up to the former Erie 
station platforms. This was very interesting, filled with 
trash and debris, but open to the public nonetheless.

For some years, the station was closed altogether nights and 
weekends, but with the redevelopment, both platforms are now 
in use again and busy, 24/7.

But the "E" remains in the support posts on the platform.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie
ELHS #1296 


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