9th Street–Congress Street station

Preceding station	NJ Transit			Following station
2nd Street toward West Side Avenue		West Side–Tonnelle		Lincoln Harbor toward Tonnelle Avenue
2nd Street toward Hoboken		Hoboken–Tonnelle

Location

9th Street–Congress Street station is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) operated by New Jersey Transit which opened on September 7, 2004. Located at Ninth Street, west of Jackson Street, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the station also serves the Heights of Jersey City. There are two tracks and two side platforms.

Elevator

9th Street–Congress Street station is notable for having a pair of elevators that runs along the face of the Palisades cliffs between the platforms at their base and Paterson Plank Road at their crest. Use of the elevators is free. Before its construction, travel between Jersey City Heights and Hoboken was along Paterson Plank Road, Mountain Road, 14th Street Viaduct or paths along the cliffs now made inaccessible by fencing along the right of way.^[3]

Station layout

M	Mezzanine	Entrance/exit at Paterson Plank Road, buses
P Platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Southbound	←      Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Hoboken (2nd Street) ←      West Side–Tonnelle toward West Side Avenue (2nd Street)
	Northbound	→      Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Lincoln Harbor) → →      West Side–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Lincoln Harbor) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

References

External links

Media related to 9th Street-Congress Street (HBLR station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Subway Nut station info and photos Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
• 9th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Patterson Plank Road and Congress Street entrance from Google Maps Street View