2nd Street | |||||||||||||||
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| Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | 204 Marshall Street Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′30″N 74°02′34″W / 40.7416°N 74.0428°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJT Bus: 85, 87, 89 (on Paterson Avenue) | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | September 7, 2004[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 750 V (DC) overhead catenary | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 72,800  43% | ||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||
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NJ Transit 2nd Street is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located west of Marshall Street near the foot of Paterson Plank Road in Hoboken, New Jersey. There are two tracks and two side platforms.
Station layout
| Ground/platform level Exit/entrance | |
Side platform, doors will open on the right  | |
| Southbound | ← Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Hoboken (Terminus) ← West Side–Tonnelle toward West Side Avenue (Newport) |
| Northbound | Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (9th Street–Congress Street) → West Side–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (9th Street–Congress Street) → |
| Side platform, doors will open on the right | |
History
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The station opened on September 7, 2004. The right of way on which it is situated was originally part of the New York Central New Jersey Junction Railroad, which maintained a station there. It was later used by the Penn Central River Division and[2] the Conrail River Line before being abandoned to make way for the current system.[3] The station is located at the foot of the Hudson Palisades. In 2003, Jersey City agreed with a developer of a nearby factory-to-housing conversion to cover the cost of an outdoor public stairway from Jersey City Heights to the station. The stairway was never built and in June 2011 the city took responsibility for the project.[4] The steel steps were opened in November 2013.[5]
Station art
Station art was installed at the same time that the station opened. "A Planetary Park" features nine planets depicted in their relative scale and position to the sun. Artist John van Alstine constructed the Sun and a functioning sundial. Grace Graupe-Pillard fabricated the nine fiberglass planets with painted steel figurative attachments, as a metaphor for the celebration of the individual and his/her connection to the world.
References
- ^ "NJ Transit Set to Extend Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Weehawken" (Press release). New Jersey Transit. September 3, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
- ^ Penn Central Rivier Division map
- ^ EPA-IMPACT 2000
- ^ Hunger, Matt (June 16, 2011). "Jersey City Takes Over '100 Steps' Project". Jersey City Independent. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-25.
- ^ http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2013/11/jersey_city_heights_gets_new_s.html