Garfield Avenue (HBLR station)

Garfield Avenue
Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station
The Garfield Avenue station in April 2015, facing toward West Side Avenue.
Location	Union Street & Carteret Avenue Jersey City, NJ
Coordinates	40°42′38″N 74°04′16″W / 40.7105°N 74.0710°W / 40.7105; -74.0710Coordinates: 40°42′38″N 74°04′16″W / 40.7105°N 74.0710°W / 40.7105; -74.0710
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	West Side–Tonnelle
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	April 22, 2000
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead catenary
Services
Preceding station   Hudson–Bergen Light Rail   Following station Martin Luther King Drive toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Liberty State Park toward Tonnelle Avenue

Garfield Avenue is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at Union Street CR 610 in the Claremont Section of Jersey City, New Jersey. The station opened on April 22, 2000. It is at the eastern end of a railroad cut originally excavated in Bergen Hill in 1869 for the Central Railroad of New Jersey Newark and New York Railroad Branch. Garfield Avenue, presumably named for assassinated president James A. Garfield, was once part of Bergen Point Plank Road, which itself had once been a major colonial post road. A decorative theme for the station is two dimensional "cut-outs" of adults ad children, some of whom are playing.