Lincoln Harbor station

Lincoln Harbor is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) located at Waterfront Terrace, north of 19th Street, in Weehawken, New Jersey. The station opened on September 7, 2004. There are two tracks and an island platform.

Lincoln Harbor
Hudson–Bergen Light Rail station
Location	1117 Waterfront Terrace Weehawken, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.7616°N 74.0238°W / 40.7616; -74.0238
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NY Waterway NJ Transit Bus: 23, 64, 67, 68, 156, 158, 159
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	September 7, 2004[1]
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead catenary
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	119,340  34%
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station 9th Street–Congress Street toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Port Imperial toward Tonnelle Avenue 9th Street–Congress Street toward Hoboken Hoboken–Tonnelle

Lincoln Harbor lies east of the Lincoln Tunnel and west of the Hudson River.

A five minute walk southeast from the station, at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and 19th Street, is a ferry landing of the same name.[2] NY Waterway provides commuter ferry service to the West Midtown Ferry Terminal in Manhattan.[3]

Platform layout

Ground/platform level Exit/entrance and buses
	Southbound	←      Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Hoboken (9th Street–Congress Street) ←      West Side–Tonnelle toward West Side Avenue (9th Street–Congress Street)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or right
	Northbound	Hoboken–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Port Imperial) →      West Side–Tonnelle toward Tonnelle Avenue (Port Imperial) →

Name and vicinity

The station's name is taken from the area along the Hudson River to the east, which in turn was named for the Lincoln Tunnel to the west. It is situated in the shadow of the Lincoln Tunnel Approach and Helix, which crosses the bluff at the end of the Hudson Palisades and descends in a circle to the art deco toll plaza and portals. To the east lies commercial and residential district, partially redeveloped by Hartz Mountain Industries,[4][5][6] which had acquired the Erie Railroad yards that had once predominated the area north of Weehawken Cove in 1981.[7] In 2011, it announced that it would continue residential development with the construction of three rental apartment buildings adjacent to the station to open in 2013.[7] Erie's Pier D and Piershed is a remnant of the rail era listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1984,[8] and is now used as office space. While most of the route is at grade, just north of the station a bridge carries trains over a busy intersection at the foot of King's Bluff.

The municipal athletic fields of Weehawken Recreation Park are to the northeast, and north of that, Weehawken Port Imperial. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs along the shore of the North River, providing access to the water's edge and marinas for recreational boating, and New York Waterway ferries to the West Midtown Ferry Terminal. UBS,[9] Swatch Group USA,[10] Hartz Mountain[11] Telx (colocation center)[12][13] are among the corporations which maintain offices in the neighborhood, which also hosts a Sheraton Hotel.[14]

References

1. "NJ Transit Set to Extend Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to Weehawken" (Press release). New Jersey Transit. September 3, 2004. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
2. Google (April 1, 2020). "Lincoln Harbor" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved April 1, 2020.
3. "Lincoln Harbor / Weehawken". NY Waterway. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
4. De Palma, Anthoney (July 7, 1987). "River City is Planned for Jersey". The New York Times. Retrieved May 10, 2010.
5. Hartz Mountain Industries: Lincoln Harbor Archived December 31, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
6. De Palma, Anthony (December 10, 1988). "Bus or Blast? Developers View Hudson". The New York Times.
7. Heinis, John (December 12, 2011), "$200M rental complex planned for Weehawken waterfront in 2013", The Jersey Journal, retrieved December 12, 2011
8. New Jersey Register of Historic Places in Hudson County Archived July 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
9. "Directions to our US headquarters". UBS. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
10. "Subsidiaries in the Americas". Swatch Group. 2011. Retrieved March 18, 2011.
11. "Major Employer's List" (PDF). Hudson County Economic Development Corporation. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2011. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
12. "300 Boulevard East". Telx. Archived from the original on January 28, 2011. Retrieved March 21, 2011.
13. Bowley, Graham (January 1, 2011), "The New Speed of Money, Reshaping Markets", The New York Times, retrieved March 21, 2011
14. "Sheraton Lincoln Harbor". www.starwoodhotels.com. Retrieved March 21, 2011.

External links

Media related to Lincoln Harbor (HBLR station) at Wikimedia Commons

• Subway Nut station info and photos
• Waterfront Terrace entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Platform from Google Maps Street View