Second Street | |||||||||||||||
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 2nd Street station platforms in August 2009 | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | 204 Marshall Street Hoboken, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′30″N74°02′34″W / 40.7416°N 74.0428°W /40.7416; -74.0428 | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Connections |  NJ Transit Bus:85,87,89 | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | September 7, 2004 (2004-09-07)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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2nd Street station is a station on theHudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located west of Marshall Street near the foot ofPaterson Plank Road inHoboken, New Jersey. There are two tracks and twoside platforms.
The station opened on September 7, 2004. The right of way on which it is situated was originally part of theNew York CentralNew Jersey Junction Railroad, which maintained a station there. It was later used by thePenn Central River Division and[3] theConrailRiver Line before being abandoned to make way for the current system.[4] The station is located at the foot of theHudson Palisades. In 2003,Jersey City agreed with a developer of a nearby factory-to-housing conversion to cover the cost of an outdoor public stairway fromJersey City Heights to the station. The stairway was never built and in June 2011 the city took responsibility for the project.[5] The steel steps were opened in November 2013.[6]
Station art was installed at the same time that the station opened.A Planetary Park features nine planets depicted in their relative scale and position to the sun. Artist John van Alstine constructed theSun and a functioning sundial.Grace Graupe-Pillard fabricated the nine fiberglass planets with painted steel figurative attachments, as a metaphor for the celebration of the individual and his/her connection to the world.
