Englewood Route 4 station

Englewood Route 4 is a proposed station along NJ Transit's Northern Branch Corridor Project extension of Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in Englewood in lower reaches of the Northern Valley in Bergen County, New Jersey.^[1] The station site is along the CSX Transportation (CSXT) Northern Branch where it runs under New Jersey Route 4 at MP 8.8,^[2] east of Nordhoff Place and north of Sheffield Avenue.^[3]

Englewood Route 4
Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station
Route 4 as it crosses over the Northern Branch
General information
Location	Englewood, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.880412°N 73.984530°W / 40.880412; -73.984530
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	HBLR Northern Branch
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Parking	945
History
Opened	TBD
Proposed services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Leonia toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Northern Branch Englewood Town Center toward Englewood Hospital Leonia toward Hoboken Hoboken–Tonnelle Northern Branch

The station is designed to have an island platform, partially located under Route 4.^[4] It will include a parking deck for 945 vehicles incorporated into a storage and maintenance VBF (vehicle base facility).^[5] Vehicle access from Route 4 will be via Grand Avenue (concurrent County Route 501 and New Jersey Route 93). Approximately 6 acres (2.4 ha) of property will be acquired to build the parking deck and VBF.^[6] Two other HBLR stations are planned in the city further north of Englewood Route 4 at Englewood Town Center and at Englewood Hospital, the line's terminus.^[3]

The area radiating from the station site has been dubbed Englewood South. It is zoned for planned unit development (PUD) and consists mixed-use development that is undergoing a transformation from a warehouse distribution & manufacturing district into a residential, retail, and business neighborhood.^[7][8]

History

Nordhoff station circa 1900-1910

Rail service in Englewood began in 1859 when the region was still known as the English Neighborhood.^[9] By 1887 Erie Railroad's Northern Branch had three stops in the city: the southernmost at Nordhoff (#1919) (later Sheffield Avenue), the central depot at Englewood (#1921), and the northernmost at Highwood (#1923) (later Hudson Avenue).^{[10][11][12][13]}

See also

• Northern Branch (NJ Transit)

References

1. "Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS FINAL" (PDF). 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
2. "Route 4 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved April 8, 2007.
3. "Northern Branch Corridor Project". www.northernbranchcorridor.com.
4. Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS, March 2017, Chapter 3: Project Alternatives
5. Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS, March 2017, Chapter 9: Traffic and Parking 9-1 9. Traffic and Parking
6. Northern Branch Corridor SDEIS, March 2017, Chapter 5: Land Acquisition and Displacement
7. "City of Englewood NJ Municipal Master Plan 2014" (PDF). City of Englewood NJ. 2015. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
8. "Englewood South" (PDF). the-sheffield.com. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
9. "History". City of Englewood. Archived from the original on December 25, 2016. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
10. Northern Branch Corridor DEIS, December 2011, Appendix H: Historic Properties and Resources By 1887, the railroad had erected three stations... Van Brunts (later Nordhoff) in the south and Englewood and Highwood (near Ivy Lane) to the north.
11. "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
12. Adams, Arthur G. (January 1, 1981). The Hudson. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791494226 – via Google Books. With the coming of the Northern Valley Railroad of New Jersey, the name Englewood was adopted. The southwestern part of town was called Nordhoff and the northwestern part was call Highwood.
13. Bouton-Goldberg, Bobbie; Brown, Arnold; Buchbinder, Mary; Grossman, Betty; Levien, Lisa; Nacht, Irmari (November 24, 1998). Englewood and Englewood Cliffs. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738562025 – via Google Books.