Hoboken or bust:

 

Manhattan financial district afternoon rush hour:

 

From this station you can go either to Hoboken or Jersey City/Newark:

 

My friend lives on the Palisades, here is the view from his apartment:

 

His street:

 

Crazy elevator thing:

 

 

 

Hudson-Bergen light rail:

 

 

We're in the historic area now.  This area is dead-on like Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati. Exact same architectural styles, exact same size (roughly 1 square mile total), exact same density:

 

Hoboken has more 5-story buildings than Over-the-Rhine, but probably not more than 30 total:

 

One or two blocks of NY-style brownstones:

 

A dead-on Cincinnati view:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This view is almost exactly like how SCPA sits in Over-the-Rhine:

 

 

Hoboken PATH terminal -- this leads either to the World Trade Center PATH station or the jank PATH subway into Manhattan:

 

Aforementioned jank PATH subway; this is I believe 14th St. in Manhattan:

 

 

Wall of rows right across from the PATH terminal:

 

Another view of the crazy elevator thing:

 

I'll be posting a full tour of the Hudson-Bergen light rail sometime in the future. 

Hoboken is one of my favorite cities in NJ to visit. I have relatives in Palisades Park and Jersey City, so I go by here all the time. I really like the light-rail network and how it has expanded so much in the past 5 years, and all of the new development that has followed it.

 

 

LIE!

*Kicking myself for never exploring east Jerz*

Awesome tour.  I wish I discovered this site before I moved to PA.  I would have been all over Jersey exploring.  Oh well.

Hoboken is one of the best urban'burbs of New York...next to New Roc City!

eerily like Cincinnati

Sherman I hope you were joking.  There are tons of new apartments along the Hudson-Bergon line.  I rode the whole thing and saw them for myself.  There are tons in Jersey City and tons in Hoboken. 

I like Hoboken.

Sherman I hope you were joking.  There are tons of new apartments along the Hudson-Bergon line.  I rode the whole thing and saw them for myself.  There are tons in Jersey City and tons in Hoboken. 

 

Yes :)

 

Jersey City has really come along too, especially post-9/11. Their financial center was pretty much non-existent ten years ago. IIRC, they are planning or have a streetcar.

Aforementioned jank PATH subway; this is I believe 14th St. in Manhattan:

 

The PATH station at 14th Street has side platforms. That looks like the 9th Street station.

 

I hate the fact that the typical PATH station is incredibly claustrophobic and generally an unpleasant place to be in, but I'll give them credit for being about a million times cleaner than the typical MTA subway station. PATH has also ordered an entirely new fleet of rolling stock, which is currently in testing.

Sherman I hope you were joking.  There are tons of new apartments along the Hudson-Bergon line.  I rode the whole thing and saw them for myself.  There are tons in Jersey City and tons in Hoboken. 

 

Yes :)

 

Jersey City has really come along too, especially post-9/11. Their financial center was pretty much non-existent ten years ago. IIRC, they are planning or have a streetcar.

 

That not exactly true.  There was a plan to move banking back office systems to NJ, prior to 9/11.  The attack  sped up things.  Since bank & other financial business had purchased space in Jersey, they were able to move office to those secondary/emergency space relatively quickly and not be to disruptive to businesses.

Any laws against taking the photos inside the train station? I was kind of surprised to see that.

 

Impressive people density in the first two pictures.

Well PATH has different rules than the MTA and is patrolled by the Port Authority's police force.  I wanted to take some photos in the temporary WTC PATH station but the fare machine ate my $10 bill and I was distracted with that. The temporary station has 8 escalators coming down from street level.  I think 5 were going down and 3 were going up when I was there and they were packed.  It's incredible to see this volume of people after the WTC destruction removed 50,000 daily workers from downtown. I'm sure the disruption for those people when PATH closed for a few years after the terrorist attack was a true pain, considering the midtown PATH subway doesn't interchange easily with the NYC subway.  I'm sure it added 30 minutes to a lot of people's commutes.   

 

I've been wanting to see a Hoboken photo thread, so thanks for posting this!  Certainly looks like the best place to live in Jersey. 

My friend lived in Jersey City pre 9/11 and I stayed there a lot. He later moved to Hoboken, which I liked better but I think the Jersey City view is better, especially before 9/11 but things will be changing.