Owned by New Jersey Transit Owner NJ Transit | Tracks 2 Platforms in use 2 | |
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Location Norfolk Street & Clifton Avenue
Newark, New Jersey Line(s) Grove Street – Newark Penn Connections NJT Bus: 99
ONE Bus: 24, 44 Electrified 750 V (DC) overhead lines Address Newark, NJ 07103, United States Similar Warren Street/NJIT Light Rail, Grove Street Light Rail Station, W Market St at Central A, Springfield Ave at MLK Jr Blvd, Park Avenue Newark L | ||
Norfolk Street Station is an open-cut station on the Newark City Subway Line of the Newark Light Rail system. and the first following the line leaving the Raymond Boulevard tunnel. It is located on Norfolk Street just south of Central Avenue in University Heights.
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History
Norfolk Street station was originally built by Public Service Corporation of New Jersey on May 26, 1935, and contained a connection to the Central Avenue line until December 14, 1947 when the route was converted into bus route #23.
Vicinity
Institutions near the station include Science Park High School, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the New Jersey Medical School, the New Jersey Dental School, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, the School of Health Related Professions, and the School of Nursing. The historic, and now abandoned, Essex County Jail is adjacent to the station.