Danforth Avenue station

Danforth Avenue station is located north of the site of the former Central Railroad of New Jersey Greenville station. The former Greenville stop was located along the right of way at Linden Avenue, south of the current bridge over the railroad. The station opened on August 1, 1864 as part of a dummy railroad between the future Communipaw Terminal and Bergen Point until the CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge was built across Newark Bay.[3] A station built in 1866 at that location burned down on May 11, 1869, and replaced with a two-story wooden depot that was 21 by 51 feet (6.4 m × 15.5 m) large.[4] The later station depot lasted until 1964, when it was razed in favor of a shelter.[4] Passenger service to Greenville ended on April 30, 1967, when the Aldene Plan went into effect, moving CNJ commuter services through Newark Penn Station via the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Service through Bayonne was truncated from Communipaw Terminal to CNJ's East 33rd Street station.[5][6]

The current station opened on April 15, 2000, as part of the original operating segment of the HBLR.[2] A public art exhibition entitled Immigrant Remnants consists of concrete sculptures of luggage, with an accompanying plaque displaying a tongue-in-cheek newspaper article that suggests the sculptures are petrified remains of actual luggage discovered during construction of the station.[7]