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Atop embankment at eastern end Retaining wall Stone support pier of viaduct which carried the line westward to what is now Journal Square. The Harsimus Stem Embankment, also called Sixth Street Embankment, is a half-mile-long historic railroad embankment, disused and largely overgrown with foliage, in the heart of the historic downtown of Jersey City, New Jersey in the United States.
Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christopher Columbus Drive on the south between Coles Street and Grove Street [3] or more broadly, to Marin Boulevard.
Various projects have been proposed for the abandoned track bed: for a four-lane or six-lane highway that would connect the New Jersey Turnpike and U.S. Route 1/9 bypassing traffic headed along New Jersey Route 139 for the Holland Tunnel, [4] extension of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail, or in conjunction with the Harsimus Stem Embankment, a recreational greenway.
The Passaic and Harsimus Line, part of Conrail Shared Assets Operations, serves freight in northeastern New Jersey. It takes trains from the Northeast Corridor and Lehigh Line near Newark Liberty International Airport northeast and east into Jersey City. It is part of CSX's main corridor from upstate New York to the rest of the east coast.
The Erie began developing the waterfront site in 1856. [3] The intermodal complex was open December 4, 1887. [4] Across the river-facing facade was New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad, the name of the entity that built it, though it was also called Jersey City Terminal Station [5] or Erie Railroad Station The colloquial name is taken from the 17th century European settlement of Pavonia ...
Exchange Place - "Jersey City: Past and Present" (New Jersey City University) Photo of depot as seen from the Hudson River; Jersey City Landmarks Committee: Harsimus Branch Embankment and Pennsylvania Main Stem Elevated; Photo of Exchange Place facing terminal and ferry slips, c. 1905; PRR system map 1899; Travellers description of cut 1800s
New Jersey Transit Port Authority Trans Hudson Newark line Harrison & Penn Station (Newark) Centre Street Bridge (defunct) New Jersey Railroad: Harrison & Newark: Bridge Street Bridge: County Route 508: Harrison & Newark: Newark Drawbridge [4] New Jersey Transit: Harrison & Newark Broad Street Station: William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge ...
Liberty State Park (LSP) is a park in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located on Upper New York Bay in Jersey City opposite Liberty Island and Ellis Island. The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations [1] and is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. Liberty State Park covers 1,212 acres ...