9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station)

Infobox Station
name=9th Street
Congress Street
style=NJT Rail


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address=9th Street and Jackson Street
Hoboken, NJ
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other=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)
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tracks=2
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baggage_check=
passengers=211,120
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=24
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opened=7 September 2004
closed=
rebuilt=
electrified=750VDC
ADA=yes
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owned=New Jersey Transit
zone=1
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mpassengers=

9th Street-Congress Street is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at 9th Street, west of Jackson Street, in Hoboken, New Jersey. The station opened on September 7, 2004.

9th Street-Congress Street station is most notable for having an elevator that connects Congress Street on the Jersey City Heights with 9th Street in Hoboken. Use of the elevator is free but you do have to pay to ride the Light Rail. Before the elevator, the only way to get to the Jersey City Heights from Hoboken was to take Paterson Plank Road or Mountain Road in southern Hoboken, or the Viaduct in northern Hoboken.

Southbound service from the station is available to Hoboken Terminal and to West Side Avenue in Jersey City (bypassing Hoboken Terminal). Transfers for service to 22nd Street in Bayonne are available at station stops between Hoboken Terminal and Liberty State Park. Northbound service is available to Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen. Connections to PATH trains to Midtown Manhattan and to New Jersey Transit commuter train service are available at Hoboken Terminal. Transfers to PATH trains to Newark, Harrison, and Downtown Manhattan are available at Exchange Place. Transfers to PATH trains to Downtown Manhattan, Hoboken, and Midtown Manhattan are available at the Pavonia-Newport station.

Transfers

*New Jersey Transit bus routes 85, 87, 89 and, 123 stop on Congress Street, with the 22, 84, and 86 making a stop two blocks west on Palisade Avenue.
*The Red & Tan 10/99S line also stops on Palisade Avenue
*All transfers are accessible by an elevator from the station to Congress Street.

External links

* [http://www.mylightrail.com/index.php?option=com_hblr&task=station&Itemid=102&id=6 Station details]
* [http://www.njtransit.com/sf_lr.shtml New Jersey Transit - Light Rail]
* [http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0100.pdf Hudson-Bergen Light Rail schedule (PDF)]
* [http://subwaynut.com/hblr/9th/index.html Subway Nut station info and photos]