Lincoln Harbor station

Lincoln Harbor Station
Lincoln Harbor station platform in August 2009
General information
Location1117 Waterfront Terrace
Weehawken, New Jersey
Coordinates40°45′42″N 74°01′26″W / 40.7616°N 74.0238°W / 40.7616; -74.0238
Owned byNew Jersey Transit
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections
Construction
Bicycle facilitiesYes[1]
AccessibleYes
Other information
Fare zone1
History
OpenedSeptember 7, 2004 (September 7, 2004)[2]
Passengers
508 per weekday (2022)
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station
9th Street–Congress Street
toward West Side Avenue
 West Side–Tonnelle Port Imperial
toward Tonnelle Avenue
9th Street–Congress Street
toward Hoboken
 Hoboken–Tonnelle
Location
Map

Lincoln Harbor is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at Waterfront Terrace, north of 19th Street, in Weehawken, New Jersey. The station opened on September 7, 2004. There are two tracks and an island platform.

A five minute walk southeast from the station, at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and 19th Street, is a ferry landing of the same name.[3] NY Waterway provides commuter ferry service to the West Midtown Ferry Terminal in Manhattan.[4]

It is the least used station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail at 508 boardings per weekday in 2022. [5]

Name and vicinity

The station's name is taken from the area along the Hudson Waterfront, with the Hudson River to the east, which in turn was named for the Lincoln Tunnel to the west. It is situated in the shadow of the Lincoln Tunnel Helix, which crosses the bluff at the end of the Hudson Palisades and descends in a circle to the art deco toll plaza and portals. To the east lies commercial and residential district, partially redeveloped by Hartz Mountain Industries,[6][7][8] which had acquired the Erie Railroad yards that had once predominated the area north of Weehawken Cove in 1981.[9] In 2011, it announced that it would continue residential development with the construction of three rental apartment buildings adjacent to the station to open in 2013.[9] Erie's Pier D and Piershed is a remnant of the rail era listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1984,[10] and is now used as office space. While most of the route is at grade, just north of the station a bridge carries trains over a busy intersection at the foot of King's Bluff.[citation needed]

The municipal athletic fields of Weehawken Recreation Park are to the northeast, and north of that, Weehawken Port Imperial. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs along the shore of the North River, providing access to the water's edge and marinas for recreational boating, and New York Waterway ferries to the West Midtown Ferry Terminal. UBS,[11] Swatch Group USA,[12] Hartz Mountain[13] Telx (colocation center)[14][15] are among the corporations which maintain offices in the neighborhood, which also hosts a Sheraton Hotel.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Lincoln Harbor Station Weehawken". NJ Transit. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
  2. ^ "NJ Transit Set to Extend Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Weehawken" (Press release). New Jersey Transit. September 3, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  3. ^ "Lincoln Harbor" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
  4. ^ "Lincoln Harbor / Weehawken". NY Waterway. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  5. ^ "New Jersey Transit Friendly Data Application". njlutrans.org. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  6. ^ De Palma, Anthony (July 7, 1987). "River City is Planned for Jersey". The New York Times. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
  7. ^ Hartz Mountain Industries: Lincoln Harbor Archived December 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ De Palma, Anthony (December 10, 1988). "Bus or Blast? Developers View Hudson". The New York Times.
  9. ^ a b Heinis, John (December 12, 2011). "$200M rental complex planned for Weehawken waterfront in 2013". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  10. ^ New Jersey Register of Historic Places in Hudson County Archived July 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ "Directions to our US headquarters". UBS. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
  12. ^ "Subsidiaries in the Americas". Swatch Group. 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
  13. ^ "Major Employer's List" (PDF). Hudson County Economic Development Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
  14. ^ "300 Boulevard East". Telx. Archived from the original on January 28, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
  15. ^ Bowley, Graham (January 1, 2011). "The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets". The New York Times. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
  16. ^ "Sheraton Lincoln Harbor". Marriott International.

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