Richard Street (or the Thomas and John Jackson Station as written beneath an entrance sign) is located in southern Jersey City and is the northernmost stop on the Bayonne Branch that fallows the bed of former Morris Canal, it serves a neighbrohood of houses. The station has a simple island platform engraved with a map of the original HBLR system (no 8th Street or Tonnelle Avenue extensions) on the station platform's by Nina Yankowitz and Barry Holden including platform benches. The windscreens have Coming and Going by Anne Dushanko-Dobek. To leave the platform, at the southern end is a pedestrian grade crossing that leads north. It leads up beneath a portal with a scupture by Tom Nussbaum and Charles Fahlen and down a few steps (with a ramp) to a turn-around loop at the dead end of Richard Street that heads north. In this plaza is a fence with decorative Wheels by Alastair Noble and more Immigrant Remnants by Karl Jensen.
Photos 1-14: June 14, 2008
Looking down the platform at Richard Street, by the enclosed waiting area with benches on the platform at Richard Street.
A sign beneath the station awning for trains to Bayonne at Richard Street.
Looking down the exposed northern end of the island platform at Richard Street.
The ground of the exposed portion of the island platform at Richard Street. A bench is quite decorative looking, and also a map of the HLBR system is also visible.
A close-up of the Bayonne branch still ending at 34th Street on the ground of the platform at Richard Street.
NJ LRV #2026B leads a northbound train to Hoboken Terminal towards the Richard Street Station.
Looking up the short ramp to the island platform at Richard Street
A close-up of the plaque for the arts installation called Wheelway 3 by Tom Nussbaum at Richard Street.
A decorative arch at the top of the staircase and ramp up to the Richard Street Station
Looking up the entrance staircase to Richard Street from the street-level entrance with the station's platform visible.
Some decorative concrete forms in the plaza at the entrance to Richard Street.
Another decorative concrete from in the station plaza entrance at Richard Street
A plaque for Art at Richard Street: Wheels: Steel Inserts by Alastair R. Noble and Kathy Bruce, 2000.
A sign for the Richard Street Station: Thomas and John Jackson Station.
Last Updated: 23 November, 2008
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