Owned by New Jersey Transit Area 6,100 m² Added to NRHP 22 June 1984 | Opened 19 November 1836 Owner NJ Transit Architect Frank J. Nies | |
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Location Lackawanna Avenue and Broad Street Line(s) Gladstone Branch
Montclair-Boonton Line
Morristown Line
Broad Street – Newark Penn Platforms Commuter rail: 1 island, 1 side
Light rail: 1 island Tracks 3 (Commuter Rail)
2 (Light rail) Connections NJT Bus: 11, 13, 27, 28, 29, 30, 41, 72, 76, 78, and 108 Address 25 University Avenue, Newark, NY 07102, USA Architectural styles Colonial Revival architecture, Renaissance architecture Similar Pennsylvania Station, Brick Church station, Secaucus Junction, Watsessing Avenue station, Bay Street station | ||
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Newark Broad Street is a New Jersey Transit commuter rail and light rail station at 25 University Avenue in Newark in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1901-03 on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line from Hoboken to Denville, Scranton and Buffalo, the station's historic architecture includes an elegant clock tower and a brick and stone façade on the station's main building.
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History
Newark Broad Street opened on 19 November 1836 at the east end of the opening segment of the Morris and Essex Railroad to Orange; for the first couple of decades trains east of Newark ran over the New Jersey Rail Road to Jersey City. The Newark Drawbridge connecting to the station and crossing the Passaic River to the east was opened in 1903. A number of western expansions were built, and Hoboken Terminal, the current eastern end of the line, opened in 1907. In 1945, the Morris and Essex Railroad officially merged into the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (its identity had been largely lost years before). DL&W merged with the Erie Railroad in 1960 to form the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, which was absorbed by Conrail in 1976; New Jersey Transit has operated all passenger service since 1983.
The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.
Renovation
From 2004 to 2008 the station was renovated. The station changed from having 2 outside low platforms, with walkways across one track to the middle track, to having 2 high platforms, one of them an island platform, to facilitate cross-platform transfers. The historic westbound shelter was removed in the project and new westbound waiting areas were built.
Rail
Broad Street Station is currently served by the Montclair-Boonton Line and both branches of the Morris and Essex Lines (Morristown Line and Gladstone Branch).
Light Rail
This station is the northern terminus of the Newark Light Rail Broad Street Extension line from Newark Penn Station. Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006. Light Rail trains operate from about 5 a.m. to midnight, daily. Light rail service was unavailable from March 2008 until July 2008 due to a partial collapse of the former Westinghouse factory adjacent to the station during demolition. Demolition was completed, and service resumed, in July 2008.