HOBOKEN TERMINAL

'Hoboken Terminal', located on the Hudson River waterfront in Hoboken, New Jersey is a major transportation hub. Designed by architect Kenneth M. Murchison in the Beaux-Arts style, the rail and ferry terminal buildings were constructed in 1907 as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Terminal Complex. The terminal building is listed on the State Register and the National Register of Historic Places (added in 1973 as #73001102).^[1]
The large main waiting room, with its floral and Greek Revival motifs in tiled stained glass by Louis Comfort Tiffany set atop bands of pale cement, is generally considered one of the finest in the U.S. aesthetically. The terminal exterior extends to over four stories and has a distinguished copper-clad façade with ornate detailing. Its single-story base is constructed of rusticated Indiana limestone. A grand double stair with decorative cast-iron railings within the main waiting room provides an entrance to the upper-level ferry concourse. The terminal is considered a milestone in American transportation development, combining rail, ferry, tram, and pedestrian facilities in one of the most innovatively designed and engineered structures in the nation. Hoboken Terminal was also one of the first stations in the world to employ the Bush-type train shed, which quickly became ubiquitous with station design.
Hoboken Terminal, like Hoboken itself, is a place of "firsts". One year before his death, Thomas Edison was at the controls for the first departure, in 1930, of a regular-service electrified train from Hoboken Terminal to Montclair, New Jersey. The first installation of central air-conditioning in a public space was at Hoboken Terminal, as was the first non-experimental use of mobile phones.^[2]
The station has been used for film shoots, including ''Once Upon a Time in America'', ''The Station Agent'' and Eric Clapton's video for his 1996 single ''Change the World''.

Contents

Services

New Jersey Transit commuter rail

New Jersey Transit bus

Port Authority Trans-Hudson

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail

NY Waterway/Billy Bey Ferry

Coach USA

TransportAzumah

References

See also

External links

Gallery

Services

Hoboken is served by the most rail routes in the entire New Jersey Transit system.

New Jersey Transit commuter rail

★ Main Line

★ Bergen County Line

★ Pascack Valley Line

★ Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch of the Morris and Essex Lines

★ Montclair-Boonton Line

★ North Jersey Coast Line (limited service)

★ Raritan Valley Line (limited service)

New Jersey Transit bus

New Jersey Transit bus routes from the terminal are:^[3]

★ 22 to North Bergen via Bergenline Avenue

★ 23 to North Bergen (limited service)

★ 64 to Lakewood (limited service)

★ 68 to Old Bridge (limited service)

★ 85 to Secaucus - Harmon Meadow - Mill Creek

★ 87 to Jersey City (Gates Avenue) via Journal Square

★ 89 to North Bergen via Park Avenue

★ 126 to Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown Manhattan via Lincoln Tunnel

★ 181 to George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal

Port Authority Trans-Hudson

★ Hoboken-33rd Street

★ Hoboken-World Trade Center

★ Journal Square-33rd Street (via Hoboken) (late hour service)

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail

Hoboken Terminal is the terminus for two of the three Hudson-Bergen Light Rail services. The Hoboken Terminal-Tonnelle Avenue service to North Bergen and the 22nd Street-Hoboken Terminal service to Bayonne (including Bayonne Flyer service) both operate from the south end of the terminal concourse. The West Side Avenue-Tonnelle Avenue service bypasses Hoboken Terminal, requiring passengers from stations on the West Side Branch to transfer at stations between Pavonia-Newport and Liberty State Park.

NY Waterway/Billy Bey Ferry

Passengers can connect to ferries traveling between Hoboken and Midtown Manhattan (West 38th Street), the World Financial Center or Pier 11.

Coach USA

★ 5 to Lincoln Harbor or Jersey City (on Washington Street, limited service)

TransportAzumah

★ 144 to Staten Island

References

1. New Jersey - Hudson County, National Register of Historic Places. Accessed June 13, 2007.
2. La Gorce, Tammy. "Cool Is a State of Mind (and Relief)", ''The New York Times'', May 23, 2004. Accessed June 13, 2007. "Several decades later, the Hoboken Terminal distinguished itself as the nation's first centrally air-conditioned public space."
3. Hudson County bus and train service, New Jersey Transit. Accessed June 13, 2007.

See also

★ Hoboken (PATH station)

External links

★ Light Rail Station details

★ Subway Nut station info and photos

Gallery