9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station)

9th Street Congress Street
Station platforms with elevator to Jersey City Heights
Station statistics
Address	Ninth & Jackson Streets Hoboken, NJ
Coordinates	40.7487°N 74.0387°W / 40.7487; -74.0387
Lines	West Side–Tonnelle   Hoboken–Tonnelle
Connections	NJT Bus: 85, 87, 89 and, 123 (on Congress Street) 22, 84, and 86 (on Palisade Avenue) Red & Tan in Hudson County: 10/99S (on Palisade Avenue)
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	7 September 2004
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead catenary
Accessible
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Fare zone	1
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	211,120  24%
Services
Preceding station   Hudson–Bergen Light Rail   Following station 2nd Street toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue 2nd Street toward Hoboken Hoboken–Tonnelle Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue

9th Street-Congress Street is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) operated by New Jersey Transit which opened on September 7, 2004. Located at Ninth Street, west of Jackson Street, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the station also serves the Heights of Jersey City. There are two tracks and two side platforms.

Elevator

9th Street-Congress Street station is notable for having an elevator which runs along the face of the Palisades cliffs between the platforms at their base and Paterson Plank Road at their crest. Use of the elevator is free. Before its construction, travel between Jersey City Heights and Hoboken was along Paterson Plank Road, Mountain Road, 14th Street Viaduct or paths along the cliffs now made inaccessible by fencing along the right of way.

Train

destination	route	transfers
Tonnelle northbound	Lincoln Harbor Port Imperial Bergenline	At Port Imperial: New York Waterway At Bergenline: NJT buses and guaguas
Hoboken Terminal southbound	Hoboken	At Hoboken Terminal: PATH to Midtown Manhattan & WTC, NJT/MTA regrional rail Hudson Place bus station New York Waterway
Jersey City West Side southbound	Newport Mall Exchange Place Paulus Hook Liberty State Park	At Exchange Place: PATH to WTC, Journal Square, Newark Penn Station NJT buses Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal
Bayonne	Greenville and Bayonne require transfer at stations between Pavonia-Newport and Liberty State Park.

External links

• NJT Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station information page for 9th Street-Congress Street
• Hudson–Bergen Light Rail schedule
• Subway Nut station info and photos
• 9th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Patterson Plank Road and Congress Street entrance from Google Maps Street View