Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility[2] is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, New Jersey, near its border with West New York and North Bergen.[3] The station is the first and only completely underground station on the network and opened for service on February 25, 2006.

Bergenline Avenue
Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station
General information
Location	Bergenline Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets Union City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.782077°N 74.02185°W / 40.782077; -74.02185
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 22, 84, 86, 89, 156, 159, 181
Construction
Depth	160 feet (49 m)
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	February 25, 2006[1]
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead catenary
Passengers
2006	325,520  0%
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Port Imperial toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Tonnelle Avenue Terminus Port Imperial toward Hoboken Hoboken–Tonnelle

Platform layout

Bergenline Avenue is the only stop on in the HBLR system with an underground platform. Located 160 feet below ridge of the Hudson Palisades in the former Weehawken Terminal tunnel of the West Shore Railroad,[4] it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of busbays.[5] The station was designed by FXFOWLE Architects.[6] The four porcelain enamel on steel murals which adorn the complex are entitled Between Manhattan and Meadowlands, and were created by Maria Mijares.[7][8][9]

G	Street level	Exit/entrance and buses
M	Mezzanine	Elevators
P Platform level	Southbound	←      Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Hoboken (Port Imperial) ←      West Side–Tonnelle toward West Side Avenue (Port Imperial)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Northbound	Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus) →      West Side–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus) →

Vicinity

Bergenline Avenue is the main shopping district in North Hudson. Just over the city line it narrows from a two way thoroughfare to a narrower one way avenue heading south (with New York Avenue one block west used for northbound travel). The Bergenline Avenue Commercial Historic District, listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places, continues to 32nd Street.[10] The Hudson County Community College maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard,[11] with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street. Grove Church Cemetery[12] and North Bergen Town Hall[13] are few blocks south on the boulevard.

References

External links

• Bergenline Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View

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