Bergenline Avenue station
Bergenline Avenue is a station on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR). The intermodal facility is located on 49th Street between Bergenline Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard at the border of Union City, West New York and North Bergen, New Jersey The station is the first and only completely underground station on the network and opened for service on February 25, 2006. Platform layout. Bergenline is the only stop on in the HBLR system with an underground platform. Located 160 feet below ridge of the Hudson Palisades in the former Weehawken Terminal tunnel of the West Shore Railroad , it is reached by elevators traveling from street-level entrances located just north of busbays. The station was designed by FXFOWLE Architects. The four porcelain enamel on steel murals which adorn the complex are entitled "Between Manhattan and Meadowlands", and were created by Maria Mijares. Vicinity. Bergenline Avenue is the main shopping district in North Hudson. Just over the city line it narrows from a two way thoroughfare to a narrower one way avenue heading south (with New York Avenue one block west used for northbound travel). The Bergenline Avenue Commercial Historic District, listed on the New Jersey Register of  Historic Places, continues to 32nd Street. The Hudson County Community College maintains a location next to the station complex on Kennedy Boulevard, with Flower Hill Cemetery across the street. Grove Church Cemetery and North Bergen Town Hall are few blocks south on the boulevard.