2nd Street (HBLR station)

Infobox Station
name=2nd Street
style=NJT Rail


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address=2nd Street and Marshall Street
Hoboken, NJ
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other=NJT Bus: 85, 87, and 89
(on Paterson Avenue)
platform=2 side platforms
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tracks=2
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baggage_check=
passengers=72,800
pass_year=2006
pass_percent=43
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opened=September 7, 2004
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electrified=
ADA=yes
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owned=New Jersey Transit
zone=1
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2nd Street is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located west of Marshall Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. The station opened on September 7, 2004.

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

*Routes 85, 87, and 89 stop on Paterson Avenue.

tation art

Station Art was installed at the same time that the station opened. A "Planetary Park", with an educational element as well as a visual one, has been installed at NJ Transit's Hudson Bergen Light Rail Transit System at 2nd Street and Marshall Avenue in Hoboken. Nine planets are depicted in their relative scale and position to the sun. The artist, John van Alstine constructed the sun and a sundial, which can actually be used to tell time, like people did for most of ancient history, establishing a link with our historical past. Grace Graupe-Pillard fabricated nine colorful fiberglass planets with painted steel figurative attachments, creating a metaphor for the celebration of the individual and his/her connection to the world-at-large be it human, environmental or global. Visually the “solar system” can be experienced on two different levels. From the Jackson Housing Apartment buildings the viewer sees the “whole picture” and at ground level there is a more human/intimate involvement.

References

External links

* [http://www.mylightrail.com/index.php?option=com_hblr&task=station&Itemid=102&id=7 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/2nd/index.html Subway Nut station info and photos]