Bergenline Avenue (HBLR station)
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Bergenline Avenue
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| Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Bergenline Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets Union City, NJ |
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| Coordinates | 40°46′55″N 74°01′19″W / 40.782077°N 74.02185°WCoordinates: 40°46′55″N 74°01′19″W / 40.782077°N 74.02185°W | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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 NJT Bus: 22, 84, 86, 89, 156, 159, 181
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| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | February 25, 2006 | ||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 750 V (DC) overhead catenary | ||||||||||||||
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| Passengers (2006) | 325,520  0% |
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Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard at the border of Union City, West New York and North Bergen, New Jersey The station opened for service on February 25, 2006.
Bergenline 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 West Shore Railroad Terminal tunnel, it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of busbays. The station was designed by FXFOWLE Architects. The four porcelain enamel on steel murals which adorn the complex are entitled Between Manhattan and Meadowlands, and were created by Maria Mijares.
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 New Jersey Register of Historic Places Bergenline Avenue Commercial Historic District continues to 32nd Street. The Hudson County Community College maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard, with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street. Grove Church Cemetery and North Bergen Town Hall are few blocks south on the boulevard, while Flower Hill Cemetery is a few blocks north.
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