Hoboken Terminal

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Hoboken Terminal
The newly-renovated waiting room in 2004.
Station statistics
Address	1 Hudson Place Hoboken, NJ
Coordinates	40°44′06″N 74°01′40″W / 40.7349°N 74.0278°W / 40.7349; -74.0278Coordinates: 40°44′06″N 74°01′40″W / 40.7349°N 74.0278°W / 40.7349; -74.0278
Lines	New Jersey Transit commuter rail:      Bergen County Line      Gladstone Branch      Main Line      Meadowlands Rail Line      Montclair-Boonton Line      Morristown Line      North Jersey Coast Line      Pascack Valley Line      Raritan Valley Line Metro-North Railroad      Port Jervis Line New Jersey Transit light rail:      22nd Street–Hoboken      Hoboken–Tonnelle PATH:      HOB–WTC      HOB–33      JSQ–33 (via HOB)
Connections	BillyBey Ferry Company NJT Bus: 22, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89, and 126
Levels	1
Platforms	9 island platforms and 1 side platform
Tracks	18
Parking	available within area
Bicycle facilities	88 spaces
Baggage check	n/a
Other information
Opened	February 25, 1907
Electrified	1930
Accessible
Code	HOB
Owned by	Street level: New Jersey Transit Underground: PATH
Fare zone	1
Traffic
Passengers (2005)	4.507 million ▬ 0% (NJT)
Passengers (2006)	1.212 million ▲ 20% (HBLR)
Services
Preceding station   NJ Transit Rail   Following station Newark Penn Station toward Bay Head North Jersey Coast Line Terminus Newark Penn Station toward High Bridge Raritan Valley Line Newark Broad Street toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Morristown Line Newark Broad Street toward Gladstone Gladstone Branch Secaucus Junction toward Spring Valley Pascack Valley Line Secaucus Junction toward Port Jervis Main Line Bergen County Line Secaucus Junction toward Meadowlands Meadowlands Rail Line Preceding station   Metro-North Railroad   Following station Secaucus Junction toward Port Jervis Port Jervis Line Terminus Preceding station   Hudson–Bergen Light Rail   Following station Terminus Hoboken–Tonnelle 2nd Street toward Tonnelle Avenue Pavonia-Newport toward 8th Street 22nd Street–Hoboken Terminus Preceding station   PATH   Following station     Regular service     Terminus HOB–33 Christopher Street toward 33rd Street Terminus HOB–WTC Pavonia/Newport toward World Trade Center     Nights and weekends     Pavonia/Newport toward Journal Square JSQ–33 (via HOB) Christopher Street toward 33rd Street

Hoboken Terminal is one of the New York Metropolitan area's major transportation hubs. The commuter-oriented intermodal facility, is located on the Hudson River in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is served by nine New Jersey Transit (NJT) commuter rail lines, one Metro-North Railroad line, various NJT buses and private bus lines, the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail, the Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) rapid transit system and NY Waterway-operated ferries. More than 50,000 people use the terminal daily.^[1]

Contents 1 Services 1.1 Commuter rail 1.2 Rapid transit rail 1.3 Light rail 1.4 Ferry 1.5 Bus 2 Design, designation, and restoration 3 History 4 Environs and access 5 Gallery 6 Notes 7 External links

[edit] Services

[edit] Commuter rail

• Main Line
• Bergen County Line
• Pascack Valley Line
• Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex Lines
• Montclair-Boonton Line
• North Jersey Coast Line (limited service)
• Raritan Valley Line (limited service)
• Meadowlands Rail Line (event service)
• Port Jervis Line

Access to other New Jersey Transit rail lines is available at Newark Penn Station (which also serves Amtrak), Secaucus Junction, or Newark Broad Street.

[edit] Rapid transit rail

PATH trains provide 24 hour service on three routes from a three track underground station located north of the platforms below the street level Hudson Place bus station which is accessible from the concourse or street entrances. Travel to Newark Penn Station always requires a transfer, as does weekday service to Journal Square Transporation Center.

• Hoboken-33rd Street
• Hoboken-World Trade Center
• Journal Square-33rd Street (via Hoboken) (late night & weekend service)

[edit] Light rail

Hoboken Terminal is the terminus for two of the three Hudson-Bergen Light Rail routes, platforms for which are located south of Track 18 and are numbered H1, H2, and H4. The southern route (including the express Bayonne Flyer) travels through Downtown Jersey City, Greenville and Bayonne to 22nd Street (with a planned extension to 8th Street). The northern route travels through Hoboken and North Hudson to Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. Travel from the West Side Branch requires passengers to transfer at stations between Pavonia-Newport and Liberty State Park.

[edit] Ferry

Weekday ferry service is operated by NY Waterway to the World Financial Center in Battery Park City and the Wall Street Ferry Pier in the Financial District.

[edit] Bus

New Jersey Transit bus routes from the adjacent Hudson Place bus terminal are the ^[2] 22, 64, 68, 85, 87, 89 to destinations within Hudson County and 126, with continuing service to Port Authority Bus Terminal. The local Hoboken Downtown and Uptown bus includes the terminal in their loop routes.^[3][4]

[edit] Design, designation, and restoration

Designed by architect Kenneth M. Murchison in the Beaux-Arts style, the rail and ferry terminal buildings were constructed in 1907 as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. The terminal building is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places^[5] and the National Register of Historic Places (added in 1973 as #73001102 as the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad and Ferry Terminal).^[6] It has been undergoing extensive renovations which are projected for completion in 2011.^[1]

The large main waiting room, with its floral and Greek Revival motifs in tiled stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany set atop bands of pale cement, is generally considered one of the finest in the U.S. aesthetically. The terminal exterior extends to over four stories and has a distinguished copper-clad façade with ornate detailing. Its single-story base is constructed of rusticated Indiana limestone. A grand double stair with decorative cast-iron railings within the main waiting room provides an entrance to the upper-level ferry concourse.

A 225-foot (69 m) clock tower was originally built with the terminal over a century ago, but was dismantled in the early 1950s due to structural damage and deterioration from weather damage. A new clock tower, replicating the original, was constructed during the terminal's centennial year of 2007 and was fully erect that November. The replica tower has four foot high copper letters spelling out "LACKAWANNA", which are lit at night.

The terminal is considered a milestone in American transportation development, combining rail, ferry, streetcar (later, bus; even later, bus on one side and light-rail on the other), and pedestrian facilities in one of the most innovatively designed and engineered structures in the nation. Hoboken Terminal was also one of the first stations in the world to employ the Bush-type train shed, designed by and named for Lincoln Bush of the DL&W, which quickly became ubiquitous in station design.^{[citation needed]}

The station is unusual for a New York City area commuter railroad terminal in that it still makes use of low-level platforms, which require passengers to make use of stairs on the train to board and disembark.

[edit] History

Prior to the opening of the North River Tunnels and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad tubes in the early 1900s,^[7] overland travel to Manhattan from most of continental USA required a transfer to ferry at the Hudson waterfront. The site of the terminal has been used as a landing since the colonial era, accessible via turnpike roads, and later plank roads (namely the Hackensack, the Paterson and a spur of the Newark Plank Road). John Stevens, founder of Hoboken and inventor, launched steamboat service in 1811. During the next 100 years cuts or tunnels were constructed through Bergen Hill to terminals on the west bank of the river and the Upper New York Bay. The Bergen Hill Tunnels under Jersey City Heights were opened in 1876 by the Morris and Essex Railroad and later used by Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad (DL&W) and Erie Lackawanna Railway.

Hoboken Terminal was one of several train stations with ferry slips, each belonging to a competing railroad company. It is one of two still standing (the other being the Central Railroad of New Jersey Communipaw Terminal) and the only one still in use. Numerous streetcar lines (eventually owned and operated by the Public Service Railway), including the Hoboken Inclined Cable Railway, originated/terminated at the station until bustitution was completed on August 7, 1949.^[8] The Phoebe Snow was a premiere passenger train that departed daily from the station.^{[citation needed]} In 1956, four years before its merger with the DL&W, the Erie Railroad began the relocation of its operations to the terminal. Long distance trains to Chicago and Buffalo were permanently discontinued on January 5, 1970.

Hoboken Terminal, like Hoboken itself, is a place of "firsts". One year before his death, Thomas Edison was at the controls for the first departure, in 1930, of a regular-service electrified train from Hoboken Terminal to Montclair, New Jersey. The first installation of central air-conditioning in a public space was at Hoboken Terminal, as was the first non-experimental use of mobile phones.^[9]

The station has been used for film shoots, including Funny Girl, Three Days of the Condor, Once Upon a Time in America, The Station Agent, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Julie & Julia, Rod Stewart's Downtown Train video (1990) and Eric Clapton's video for his 1996 single "Change the World".

[edit] Environs and access

Though the passenger facilities are located within Hoboken, a large part of the infrastructure that supports them are located over the Jersey City city line, which cuts across the rail yard at a northwest diagonal from the river to the intersection of Grove Street and Newark Street. It is at this corner that Observer Highway begins running parallel to the tracks and creating a de facto border for Hoboken.^[10] The Long Slip (created with the landfilling of Harsimus Cove) creates the southern perimeter of the station, separating it from Newport, Jersey City. Motor vehicle access to the station is extremely limited. At the eastern end of Observer Highway buses are permitted to enter their terminal. Other vehicles are required to do a dog-leg turn onto Hudson Place. This 0.05 mile long^[11] street (designated CR 736) is the only one with motor vehicle traffic adjacent to the station and acts as a pick-up/drop off point, and hosts a dedicated taxi stand. Egress from the terminal requires travelling north (for at least one block) on River Street. Hudson Place ends at Warringtron Plaza. On this square one finds the main entrance to the waiting room and the vehicle entrances to the currently unused original ferry slips. A statue of Sam Sloan, president of the DL&W, moved during renovations faces the loading docks of the nearby post office. The plaza was named in honor of George Warrington, influential in the creation of New Jersey Transit, and as its executive director enabled the purchase and preservation of the station. In 2009, pedestrian access to the terminal from the south was made possible with the opening of a new segment of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway.^[12] The closing of this gap along the promenade nearly completes the stretch from the Morris Canal to Weehawken Cove, with signage along the concourse at the rail head inside the terminal indicating that it is officially part of the walkway.

[edit] Gallery

HBLR platform at tracks H1 and H2	Hoboken Terminal was one of many that dotted the west shore of Hudson River	Original ferry slips as seen from the Hudson River
Current ferry terminal for WFC-bound boats	Clock tower being replaced as part of extensive renovations

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hoboken Terminal

• New Jersey Transit - Hoboken Terminal
• New Jersey Transit schedules (PDF links)
  • Main Line & Bergen County Line
  • Montclair & Boonton Lines
  • Morris & Essex Lines (Morristown Line & Gladstone Branch)
  • North Jersey Coach Line
  • Pscack Valley Line
• Light Rail Station details
• PATH Subway Station details
• Subway Nut station info and photos
• Redevelopment Study of Hoboken Terminal & Yard for the of the City Hoboken
• Erie Lackwanna Railroad and Predecessors
• NJT:Hoboken Terminal Turns 100

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