Garfield Avenue station

Garfield Avenue
Garfield Avenue station platforms in April 2015, facing toward West Side Avenue
General information
Location	Garfield Avenue & Randolph Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°42′38″N 74°04′16″W / 40.7105°N 74.0710°W / 40.7105; -74.0710
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJ Transit Bus: 6
Construction
Bicycle facilities	Yes[1]
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	April 15, 2000 (April 15, 2000)[2]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Martin Luther King Drive toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Liberty State Park toward Tonnelle Avenue
Former services Preceding station Central Railroad of New Jersey Following station Jackson Avenue toward Newark Newark and New York Branch Local Arlington Avenue Pacific Avenue toward Jersey City
Location

Garfield Avenue station is a station on the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) in the Claremont section of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Located between the grade crossing at Randolph Avenue and the bridge at Garfield Avenue, the station in a double side platform and two track structure. The station is on the West Side Avenue branch of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail, which goes from West Side Avenue station to Tonnelle Avenue station in North Bergen. The station is accessible for handicapped people as per the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. An elevator is present to get people from Garfield Avenue to track level and the platforms are even with the train cars. The station opened to the public on April 15, 2000 as part of the original operating segment of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail.^[2]

Garfield Avenue station is a block east of the former Arlington Avenue stop of the Newark and New York Railroad, a branch of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. This branch went from the Lafayette Street Terminal in Newark to the junction at Communipaw station in Jersey City, where it met up with the main line to Communipaw Terminal. Garfield Avenue is also two blocks west of the former Pacific Avenue station. Pacific Avenue station, formerly known as Lafayette,^[3] contained a 36-by-17-foot (11.0 m × 5.2 m) station depot.^[4] Service on the line began on July 23, 1869.^[5] The station depot westbound at Arlington Avenue was built in 1889 and the eastbound station in 1910.^[6][3] Service to Newark ended abruptly on February 3, 1946 when a steamship knocked two spans of the bridge over the Hackensack River into the water below. Passenger service at Arlington Avenue ended on May 6, 1948.^[7]