Johnston Avenue

County Route 614
Johnston Avenue
Route information
Length:	0.81 mi[1] (1.3 km)
Highway system
County routes in New Jersey 500-series • County routes in Hudson County ← CR 613 CR 615 →

Johnston Avenue in lower Jersey City, carries the designation Hudson County Route 614 for a 0.81 miles (1.30 km) section of its length. Johnston Avenue begins in the west at the foot of Bergen Hill close to Communipaw Junction and ends at the Liberty State Park Station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail. The street continues under New Jersey Turnpike Newark Bay Extension, having been re-named in the 1970s. The cobblestoned portion of Johnston Avenue in Liberty State Park to the Communipaw Terminal on the Upper New York Bay was is named Audrey Zapp Drive^[2] to honor the local environmentalist influential in the development of the park.^[3]

The name Johnston is connected to the era when the area was dominated by rail infrastructure and is taken from John Taylor Johnston, president of the Central Railroad of New Jersey from 1848 to 1877. The Port Johnston Coal Docks on Constable Hook in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1864 also bears his name. The former Johnston Avenue Yard was the terminus for the Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway.

See also

Etymologies of place names in Hudson County, New Jersey

References

1. ^ "Hudson County 614 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/sldiag/09000614__-.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-29. 
2. ^ Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 0-88097-763-9. 
3. ^ Warren Zapp obituary. Jersey Journal (02-17-2001)

Coordinates: 40°42′40″N 74°3′20″W / 40.71111°N 74.05556°W / 40.71111; -74.05556