Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility[3] is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy BoulevardinUnion City, New Jersey, near its border with West New York and North Bergen.[4] The station is the first and only completely underground station on the network and opened for service on February 25, 2006.
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Bergenline Avenue station entrance/exit in August 2009
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| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Bergenline Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets Union City, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°46′55″N 74°01′19″W / 40.782077°N 74.02185°W / 40.782077; -74.02185 | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJ Transit Bus: 22, 84, 86, 89, 156, 159, 181 | ||||||||||||||
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| Bicycle facilities | Yes[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
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| Opened | February 25, 2006 (February 25, 2006)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Bergenline Avenue is the only stop in the HBLR system with an underground platform. Located 160 feet below the Hudson Palisades in the former Weehawken Terminal tunnel of the West Shore Railroad,[5] it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of bus bays.[6] The station was designed by FXFOWLE Architects.[7] The four porcelain enamel on steel murals that adorn the complex are entitled Between Manhattan and Meadowlands, and were created by Maria Mijares.[8][9][10]
| G | Street level | Exit/entrance and buses |
| M | Mezzanine | Elevators |
| P Platform level |
Southbound | ← Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Hoboken (Port Imperial) ← West Side–Tonnelle toward West Side Avenue (Port Imperial) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left or right 
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| Northbound | Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus) → West Side–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Terminus) → | |
Bergenline Avenue 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 New Jersey Register of Historic Places, continues to 32nd Street.[11] The Hudson County Community College maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard,[12] with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street. Grove Church Cemetery[13] and North Bergen Town Hall[14] are few blocks south on the boulevard.
