Journal Square
Journal Square Transportation Center and One PATH Plaza at street level
General information
Location	130 Magnolia Avenue[1] Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°43′56″N74°03′47″W / 40.732141°N 74.063114°W /40.732141; -74.063114
Owned by	Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Platforms	2island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJ Transit Bus Operations:1,2,6,8,9,10,14,16,80,83,84,87,88,119 (late nights),125,319 Academy Bus Community Bus Lines Spanish Transportation
Construction
Parking	464 spaceparking garage
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	April 14, 1912 (1912-04-14)[2]
Rebuilt	1926–1929, 1968–1975[3][4]
Previous names	Summit Avenue (1912–1925)[5]
Passengers
2024	6,868,655[6]  17.2%
Rank	2 of 13
Services
Preceding station PATH Following station Harrison towardNewark NWK–WTC Grove Street towardWorld Trade Center Weekdays Terminus JSQ–33 Grove Street toward33rd Street Weeknights, Weekends, Holidays Terminus JSQ–33 (via HOB) Grove Street toward33rd Street
Former services Preceding station Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Following station Manhattan Transfer towardPark Place Park Place – Hudson Terminal Grove-Henderson Streets towardHudson Terminal
Track layout Legend toGrove Street to storage yards east of station to storage yards east of station Long track section to storage yards east of station Summit Ave to storage yard north of station to storage yard north of station Kennedy Blvd to storage yard north of station Long track section to storage yard north of station toHarrison
Location

TheJournal Square Transportation Center is amulti-modaltransportation hub located on Magnolia Avenue andKennedy Boulevard^[1] atJournal Square inJersey City, New Jersey, United States.^[7] Owned and operated by thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey, the complex includes a ten-story tower, a retail plaza, a bus terminal, a two-level parking facility, and the Journal Square station of thePATH rail transit system. The underground station has a high ceiling and a mezzanine level connecting the platforms.

The transportation center is built over acut throughBergen Hill. The Bergen Hill cut was originally excavated in 1834–1838 by theNew Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company, later part of thePennsylvania Railroad (PRR), to access theHudson River waterfront.^[8] Passenger trains traveled to what becameExchange Place, while freight trains on theHarsimus Branch continued to theHarsimus Stem Embankment.

The center began as the Summit Avenue station of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (H&M), forerunner of PATH. The stop atSummit Avenue, located between Grove Street and Manhattan Transfer stations, opened on April 14, 1912, as aninfill station.^[2] At the time, only one platform, an island platform in the center of the station, was in use. The Summit Avenue station was not complete until February 23, 1913, when two outer side platforms in aSpanish solution opened, and an enclosed mezzanine opened.^[8] At the time, passengers traveling on the33rd Street line alighted and boarded on the outer side platforms, while passengers traveling on theNewark–Hudson Terminal line alighted and boarded on the center island platform. A bypass track for eastbound express trains was located to the south of the eastbound side platform.^[9]

The district was renamed Journal Square on January 1, 1925, after the newspaper,The Jersey Journal. Around that time, the Summit Avenue station was renovated and also rededicated as "Journal Square".^[8][5] The open-spandrel concretearch bridge carryingKennedy Boulevard and the station, built in 1926, is a pared-down version of a more ambitious elevated plaza scheme proposed by consulting engineerAbraham Burton Cohen. Passageways were suspended from the arches to connect the railroad station to bus stops on the bridge deck above (the bus stops were later removed).^[10] The storage yards northeast of the station were also expanded. The number of tracks in the station was increased from three to six to accommodate terminating trains from 33rd Street, as well as both local and express trains from Newark. There were two island platforms serving the station's four inner tracks, allowingcross-platform interchanges between Newark–Hudson Terminal and Journal Square–33rd Street trains, and bypass tracks for express trains that went around the four inner tracks.^[9] The Journal Square station was rededicated on June 1, 1929.^[8]

In 1962, the Port Authority bought the H&M and reorganized it as PATH. Reconstruction of the station began in 1968.^[11][3] Though the cornerstone was installed on September 20, 1972, the transportation center itself was opened in stages in 1973, 1974, and 1975^[12] during the late phases of theBrutalist architecture movement. The renovated station was dedicated on October 17, 1975.^[4] Astatue of Jackie Robinson was dedicated at the center in 1998.^[13][14][15]

Part of the ceiling at Journal Square fell onto the platform during the rush hour on August 8, 1983, killing two and injuring eight. The ceiling slab, a false ceiling that had been installed during the renovation ten years prior, had been observed to be sagging as early as that April.^[16][17]

PATH began testing out a new contactless payment system called TAPP, similar to theMetropolitan Transportation Authority'sOMNY system, at Journal Square and33rd Street in December 2023.^[18][19]

The PATH station is the southern terminus of two PATH lines,Journal Square–33rd Street on weekdays andJournal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) lines on weekends, late nights, and holidays. It is also a stop on theNewark-World Trade Center line. The station also serves as PATH's administrative headquarters.^[20][21]

At the platform level, the inside express tracks are typically used by trains on the Journal Square–33rd Street and Journal Square–33rd Street (via Hoboken) lines, while the outside local tracks are used by trains on the Newark–World Trade Center line.^[22]

Journal Square is one of three major terminals forNew Jersey Transit buses to and from Jersey City, the others beingExchange Place andHoboken Terminal. Buses operated by NJ Transit and private enterprises run to and from points throughoutHudson County and to thePort Authority Bus Terminal inMidtown Manhattan. There is also service toNewark,Hackensack, theJersey Shore, andAtlantic City.^[23] Bus arrivals and departures use platforms accessible from within the station or via Pavonia or Sip Avenues.

TheLoew's Jersey Theatre, theStanley Theater,Hudson County Community College,Journal Squared,One Journal Square,26 Journal Square,Hudson County Courthouse, andHudson County Administration Building are in the immediate vicinity.^[35] Nearby are the neighborhoodsBergen Square,India Square,Marion Section,Five Corners, theHilltop, andMcGinley Square, site ofBeacon andSaint Peter's College.

Wikimedia Commons has media related toJournal Square Transportation Center.

• PATH - Journal SquareArchived October 19, 2019, at theWayback Machine
• NJT Bus Routes in Hudson CountyArchived May 22, 2009, at theWayback Machine
• Kennedy Boulevard entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Entrance plaza from Google Maps Street View
• Platforms from Google Maps Street View

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