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Hoboken PATH station shuts for a month on Thursday night. Here's how to get around.
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Louis C. Hochman
Published Jan 30, 2025
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Hoboken's PATH station will close for repairs on Thursday night for 25 days, shuttering a critical transit point between Manhattan and New Jersey for hundreds of thousands of monthly riders.
Port Authority officials are pointing riders to expanded ferry service, free shuttle buses, expanded service at other PATH stations and additional NJ Transit light rail and bus service. All of these modes of transit are expected to be cross-honored, according to officials, meaning they should cost no more than the $3 PATH ride.
Officials say the closure will let them complete what would have otherwise been a year’s worth of track improvements and station rehabilitation in just under a month. In a description of the work it published last week, the Port Authority described its plans for the closure as “meticulous, almost down-to-the-minute,” saying workers would be on site 24 hours a day.
Officials said they’re committed to resuming service at 5 a.m. on Feb. 25.
Nearly 400,000 riders used the Hoboken station in February 2024, with more than 16,000 riders on an average weekday, according to Port figures. But officials said they chose February for the repairs because other months are busier — some months last year approached or topped 500,000 riders. They described the monthlong closure, the first in the PATH’s modern history, as the “least painful” way to make repairs, avoiding prolonged and shifting detours.
Workers will replace the station’s track system, ballast (the rocks underneath that drain moisture and keep the tracks situated) and “third rail” that feeds electricity to trains, along with signal fixes and other measures.
Workers will replace concrete public walking areas in the station and four staircases. The closure begins at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday.
How to get around during the shutdown
Routes for alternative transit options are here. They include:
- Increased PATH service at other stations: PATH will offer additional service at its Exchange Place and Newport stations during the shutdown. Officials say that will mean trains arriving at Newport Station every two to four minutes, and at Exchange Place every five minutes or faster. On weekdays, PATH will also run a temporary line between 33rd Street and the World Trade Center.
- Shuttle buses: Free, ADA-accessible buses will run at all hours between Hoboken, Newport and Exchange Place stations every five to 15 minutes, depending on the time of day.
- New York Waterway Ferry: On weekdays, the ferry will offer additional peak period service every 10 minutes from both Hoboken terminals, and extend service to Midtown/West 39th Street to 10 p.m. On weekends, the Waterway will extend service to Midtown/West 39th Street to 11:59 p.m. Riders will need to buy special PATH ferry tickets for $3, the same fee as a one-way PATH fare. Tickets can be purchased at terminal counters or on the Waterway’s app.
- NJ Transit bus and light rail: The 126 bus, which connects Hoboken Station with the Port Authority Midtown Bus Terminal, will be on an increased schedule. The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail between Hoboken, Newport and Exchange Place will also be available to connect riders to PATH services, with additional service on weekdays between 6 and 10 a.m., and 3 and 7 p.m. Information on ticket prices and schedules is here.
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Louis C. Hochman
After about two decades in (mostly) New Jersey-focused commercial print, digital and digital-but-radio-adjacent news, Lou stumbled into member-supported news in early 2021, as the editor and CEO of Montclair Local. There, he (hopes he) expanded enterprise, brought more sophistication to digital storytelling and moved the nonprofit newsroom closer to long-term financial sustainability. He helped lead the Local to its fourth consecutive General Excellence award from the New Jersey Press Association — the NJPA's highest honor with judges noting the paper's work to strip away layers of government opacity, to hold power to account, to make news accessible for more members of the community, to share the stories and concerns of more facets of the community and to tell compelling stories across multiple media. He's excited to continue the same ethic — news as a public service — at NYPR as the New Jersey and suburbs editor, drawing on the extraordinary talents of reporters including Karen Yi and Nancy Solomon. Lou lives in Philly (that commute!) with his partner and their two cats, about whom and about which he speaks incessantly.
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