Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility is located on 49th Street between

Bergenline Avenue Bergenline Avenue is a major commercial district in the North Hudson section of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The north–south streets passes through Union City, West New York, Guttenberg, North Bergen. Its southern end is at Uni ...

and Kennedy Boulevard in

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and

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. The station is the first and only completely underground station on the network and opened for service on February 25, 2006.

Platform layout

Bergenline Avenue is the only stop on in the HBLR system with an underground platform. Located 160 feet below ridge of the

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in the former

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tunnel of the

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, it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of busbays. The station was designed by

FXFOWLE Architects FXCollaborative is an American architecture, planning, and interior design firm founded in 1978 by Robert F. Fox Jr. and Bruce S. Fowle as Fox & Fowle Architects. The firm merged with Jambhekar Strauss in 2000 and was renamed to FXFOWLE Architec ...

. The four porcelain enamel on steel murals which adorn the complex are entitled ''Between Manhattan and Meadowlands'', and were created by Maria Mijares.

Vicinity

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

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, continues to 32nd Street. The

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maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard, with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street.

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and North Bergen Town HallBergen Township website
/ref> 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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