Pennsylvania Station (Newark)

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Newark Penn Station
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Penn Station's main entrance in June 2015
General information
Other namesNewark (PATH)
Location1 Raymond Plaza West
Newark, New Jersey
United States
Owned by NJ Transit
Line(s) Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Platforms
Tracks6 (Northeast Corridor), 2 (PATH), 5 (Newark Light Rail)
Train operators Amtrak, NJ Transit, Newark Light Rail, PATH
Bus stands12
Connections
Construction
ParkingPaid parking nearby
Bicycle facilitiesNo
AccessibleYes
Other information
Station code Amtrak: NWK
IATA code ZRP
Fare zone1 (NJT)
History
OpenedMarch 24, 1935
Rebuilt2007
Passengers
201727,695 avg. weekday [3] [4] (NJT)
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toward Chicago
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Trenton
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weekends
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toward St. Albans
Trenton
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Raritan Valley Line Secaucus Junction
limited service
Hoboken
limited service
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North Jersey Coast Line Secaucus Junction
Hoboken
limited service
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1995–2005
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Newark Penn Station
Coordinates 40°44′5″N74°9′51″W / 40.73472°N 74.16417°W / 40.73472; -74.16417 Area5 acres (2 ha)Built1935Architect McKim, Mead & White Architectural styleClassical Revival, Art DecoNRHP reference No. 78001760 [7] Added to NRHPDecember 20, 1978

Pennsylvania Station, also known as Newark Penn Station, is an intermodal passenger station in Newark, New Jersey. [8] One of the New York metropolitan area's major transportation hubs, Newark Penn Station is served by multiple rail and bus carriers, making it the seventh busiest rail station in the United States, and the fourth busiest in the New York City metropolitan area.

Contents

Located at Raymond Plaza between Market Street and Raymond Boulevard, the station is served by three NJ Transit commuter rail lines, the Newark Light Rail, [9] the PATH rapid transit system, and all 11 of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor services, including the Acela . The station is also Newark's main intercity bus terminal; it is served by carriers Greyhound, Bolt, and Fullington Trailways. Additionally, it is served by 33 local and regional bus lines operated by NJ Transit Bus Operations and Coach USA (Orange-Newark-Elizabeth).

History

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Market Street Station, 1911
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Market Street under Newark Penn Station, June 1935

Designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, the same team behind the Pennsylvania Railroad's famed original New York Penn Station twelve miles to the east, the station has Art Deco and Neo-Classical features. The main waiting room has medallions showing the history of transportation, from wagons to steamships to cars and airplanes, the eventual doom of the railroad age. Chandeliers are decorated with Zodiac signs. [10] The building was dedicated on March 23, 1935; the first regular train to use it was a New York–Philadelphia express at 10:17 on March 24. [11] [12]

The new station was built alongside (northwest of) the old station, which was then demolished and replaced by the southeast half of the present station, completed in 1937. Except for the separate, underground Newark Light Rail station, all tracks are above street level.

It was to be one of the centerpieces of Pennsylvania Railroad's (PRR's) train network, and to become a transfer point to the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad (now PATH), which was partially funded by the PRR, for travel to lower Manhattan. PRR then scheduled 232 weekday trains through Newark, about two-thirds of them to or from New York Penn Station and the rest to/from Jersey City.

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CNJ train at Newark Penn Station, July 1969

The station itself, the adjacent 230-foot Dock Bridge over the Passaic River (the longest three-track railway lift span in existence at the time) and the realignments of the Newark City Subway (now Newark Light Rail) and H&M cost $42 million, borne almost evenly by the PRR and the City of Newark. The City Subway extension and H&M realignment opened on June 20, 1937, and the nearby Manhattan Transfer station was closed, along with the H&M's original Park Place station. [13]

The Port of New York Authority (now the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey) bought the bankrupt H&M Railroad and reorganized it as Port Authority Trans-Hudson in 1962. New Jersey Department of Transportation's Aldene Plan redirected Central Railroad of New Jersey and Reading Railroad trains from Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City to Newark Penn Station in 1967. The Pennsylvania Railroad merged with longtime rival New York Central Railroad in 1968 to form Penn Central Railroad, but Newark kept the name "Penn Station." In 1970, Penn Station became the sole intercity station in Newark when the Erie Lackawanna ran its last intercity trains through Broad Street Station.

After Amtrak took over inter-city service in 1971, Penn Central continued to operate commuter service, despite being bankrupt. In 1976 the New Jersey Department of Transportation acquired Penn Central, Reading and Jersey Central passenger service, which included lines from as far away as Philadelphia's SEPTA diesel service along the West Trenton Line, with Conrail operating service under contract. New Jersey Transit acquired the rail line north of West Trenton in 1982, and established its rail operations division in 1983, acquiring almost all commuter rail service from Conrail within the state.

Newark Penn Station was extensively renovated in 2007, with restoration of the facade and historic interior materials (e.g., plaster ceilings, marble and limestone, windows, lighting fixtures), as well as train platform and equipment improvements. [14]

In August 2019 the United States Department of Transportation awarded $18.4 million to NJ Transit to rehabilitate and repair Platform "D" that serves Tracks 3 & 4 and is a major transfer point for Amtrak and NJ Transit. [15]

Current operations

Despite being 10 mi (16 km) from New York Penn, the busiest train station in North America, Newark Penn is a major station in its own right. In 2014 it was the 14th busiest station in the Amtrak system, the eighth busiest in the Mid-Atlantic region (behind New York Penn, Washington Union, Philadelphia, Baltimore Penn, Albany-Rensselaer, BWI Airport and Wilmington) and by far the busiest of the six Amtrak stations in New Jersey. This is mainly because since the 1970s, it has been the only intercity rail station in heavily populated northeastern New Jersey.

It is served by all 11 services running along the Northeast Corridor, providing a second option for Amtrak riders traveling through the New York area.

Newark Penn Station carries the IATA airport code of ZRP. [16]

NJ Transit commuter rail

Three NJ Transit commuter rail lines converge here: the Northeast Corridor Line, North Jersey Coast Line and the Raritan Valley Line. [17] The former two continue to New York at all times via Secaucus Junction. The Raritan Valley Line generally terminates here, with the exception of certain off-peak weekday trains that continue to New York and one inbound weekday train that continues to Hoboken. Formerly, the North Jersey Coast Line also offered limited service to Hoboken, though present-day schedules have eliminated this service. [18] [19] Due to the wide availability of these routes, as well as the Northeast Regional and Acela Express, passengers are not usually allowed to use Amtrak's long distance trains to Florida, New Orleans, or Chicago for local travel between Newark and New York. [20]

PATH

Newark Penn is the western terminus of the Newark–World Trade Center line of the PATH train, operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Trains discharge on Platform H (upper level) and return to service on the lower level (platform B/C). Until the opening of Secaucus Junction in 2003, NJ Transit commuter rail passengers and Amtrak intercity passengers had to transfer to PATH here in order to reach Jersey City or Hoboken.

Newark Light Rail

On the lower level is the southern terminus of the Newark Light Rail (formerly the Newark City Subway), with three outbound tracks and two inbound tracks. Passengers on this light rail system from Newark and its nearby suburbs can transfer to Amtrak, NJ Transit or PATH trains, or travel to Newark Broad Street or downtown Newark. The Broad Street extension, opened in 2006, was intended to ease transfers between the former Erie Lackawanna commuter routes that call at Broad Street and the Amtrak and former PRR commuter routes that call at Newark Penn. Previously, passengers had to make their own way (usually by taxi or bus) between the two stations.

Tracks and platforms

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Newark Penn has 8 tracks and 6 platforms for both NJT and PATH (Newark Light Rail not included), but PATH trains from NYC arrive on the upper level and ones from South Street arrive on the lower level. [21]

Sources and notes

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  12. "Newark Dedicates Its New Terminal". The New York Times. March 24, 1935. p. N1. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
  13. "New Station Open for Hudson Tubes". The New York Times. June 20, 1937. p. 1. Retrieved May 30, 2010.
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  20. "Select Your Trip". amtrak.com. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  21. 1 2 3 Dougherty, Peter (2006) [2002]. Tracks of the New York City Subway 2006 (3rd ed.). Dougherty. OCLC   49777633 via Google Books.
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