IRT Ninth Avenue Line

The IRT Ninth Avenue Line, often called the Ninth Avenue Elevated or Ninth Avenue El, was the first elevated railway in New York City. It opened in July 1868 as the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway, as an experimental single-track cable-powered elevated railway from Battery Place, at the south end of Manhattan Island, northward up Greenwich Street to Cortlandt Street. By 1879 the line was extended to the Harlem River at 155th Street. It was electrified and taken over by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company in 1903.

Station listing

Station	Tracks	Opening date	Closing date	Transfers and notes
Anderson–Jerome Avenues	Express	July 1, 1918
Sedgwick Avenue	Express	July 1, 1918		Transfer point with New York Central Railroad's Putnam Division
155th Street	Express	December 1, 1879		Built next to NYC Putnam Division southern terminus, former transfer point until Putnam Division service to Manhattan ended in 1918
151st Street	Local	November 15, 1917
145th Street	Express	December 1, 1879
140th Street	Local	September 27, 1879
135th Street	Local	September 27, 1879
130th Street	Local	September 27, 1879
125th Street	Express	September 17, 1879
116th Street	Express	September 17, 1879
110th Street	Local	June 3, 1903
104th Street	Local	June 21, 1879
99th Street	Local	June 21, 1879
93rd Street	Local	June 21, 1879
86th Street	Local	June 21, 1879
81st Street	Local	June 9, 1879
72nd Street	Local	June 9, 1879
66th Street	Express
59th Street	Local	June 9, 1879		Transfer to Sixth Avenue Elevated
55th Street	Local	January 18, 1876	Before 1887
53rd Street	Local	June 2, 1878	Before 1887
50th Street	Local	January 18, 1876
42nd Street	Local	November 6, 1875
34th Street	Express	July 30, 1873
30th Street	Local	December 13, 1873
29th Street		July 3, 1868	1873	Original northern terminus
23rd Street	Local	October 21, 1873
21st Street	Local	October 21, 1873	Before 1887
14th Street	Express
Little West 12th Street	Local	June 17, 1872	1880?
Bethune Street	Local	November 5, 1875	Before 1887
Christopher Street	Express	November 3, 1873
Houston Street	Local	November 3, 1873
Watts Street	Local	May 6, 1872	Before 1887
Desbrosses Street	Express	November 23, 1873
Franklin Street	Local	January 21, 1873
Warren Street	Express	February 14, 1870
Barclay Street	Local	February 14, 1870
Dey Street		July 3, 1868	1874	Original southern terminus
Cortlandt Street	Express	May 25, 1874
Rector Street	Local	May 25, 1874
Morris Street	Local	August 15, 1872 April 15, 1877	March 19, 1873 September 27, 1879
Battery Place	Express	June 5, 1883		Sixth Avenue Line
South Ferry	Express	April 5, 1877		Second, Third and Sixth Avenue Lines; various ferries