Teterboro is a commuter railroad station for NJ Transit in the borough of Hasbrouck Heights, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The station is located on the Pascack Valley Line near U.S. Route 46 (US 46) and Teterboro Airport between Wood-Ridge and Essex Street. Teterboro station consists of one low-level platform with a shelter accessible at the Catherine Street and US 46 ramps.
Teterboro | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Teterboro station in August 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Green Street at US 46, Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°51′53″N 74°03′46″W / 40.8648°N 74.0628°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | NJ Transit | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | |||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 767 (Erie Railroad)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 4[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 29, 1904[3] | |||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1967[4] | |||||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Williams Avenue[5] | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 104 (average weekday)[6] | |||||||||||||||||
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History
editThe station opened on the Erie Railroad's New Jersey and New York Railroad Division on May 29, 1904, as Williams Avenue, named after the street in Hasbrouck Heights that used to cross at the station. The station was one of two in Hasbrouck Heights, with the other station at Malcolm Avenue. The namesake street, Williams Avenue, was cut off at the railroad tracks in August 1934. In 1967, as part of consolidation efforts, the railroad closed the Hasbrouck Heights station and demolished it due to construction of Route 17.[7] Under NJ Transit, Teterboro had no weekend service, and with the exception for one late-night outbound local train from Hoboken. However, on November 8, 2020, NJ Transit introduced full weekend service.[8]
Station layout
editThe station has one track and one low-level side platform four cars long to its east. Although it was formerly named Williams Avenue, that street dead-ends on the line on the opposite side of the platform (since August 17, 1934)[9] which can only be accessed by Green Street that runs alongside it. Since there is no way to reach the station from its west side, customers from there often illegally crossed the tracks from the Williams Avenue dead-end to reach the platform. In February 2013, New Jersey Transit built a barbed-wire fence on this dead-end, forcing riders from the west side to loop around the station through Route 46 and Route 17, neither of which have sidewalks, to reach it.[10][11]
The platform has a wide painted yellow line below track level and a silver highway guard rail (with gaps to enter it) separating it from the 27-space parking lot that is in between it and Green Street. The southern end of the platform in the tiny area south of the parking lot's end has a bike rack for two behind a single wooden bench. There is a tiny silver shelter that has another bench next to the station's only ticket vending machine.
References
edit- ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 23, 2010.
- ^ "Pascack Valley Line Timetables" (PDF) (November 7, 2010 ed.). New Jersey Transit Rail Operations. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- ^ "Miscellaneous Locals". The Evening Record and Bergen County Herald. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 28, 1904. p. 3. Retrieved February 15, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Stations of Erie to Be Merged". The Bergen Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. May 24, 1967. p. 19. Retrieved February 15, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Yanosey, Robert J. (2006). Erie Railroad Facilities (In Color). Vol. 1. Scotch Plains, New Jersey: Morning Sun Books Inc. pp. 100–101. ISBN 1-58248-183-0.
- ^ Kiefer, Eric (February 21, 2018). "Here Are New Jersey Transit's Most, Least-Used Train Stations". patch.com. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
- ^ "Stations of Erie to be Merged". The Bergen Record. May 24, 1967. p. 19. Retrieved May 9, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "NJ Transit Enhances Weekend Rail Service at Select Stations" (Press release). NJ Transit. November 5, 2020. Retrieved May 8, 2022.
- ^ "Heights Street Changed". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. August 18, 1934. p. 4. Retrieved November 27, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Dude Where's My Train Station?". Systemic Failure. February 26, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ "Great Moments in NJ Transit: It costs what to build a fence?". Second Ave. Sagas. February 27, 2013. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
