Riverfront Stadium | |||||||||||
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![]() Newark Light Rail car at Riverfront Stadium station in April 2009 | |||||||||||
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Location | Atlantic Street and Broad Street Newark, New Jersey | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°44′44″N74°10′09″W / 40.7456°N 74.1692°W | ||||||||||
Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | 30774 [2] | ||||||||||
Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | July 17, 2006[3] | ||||||||||
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Riverfront Stadium station is a light rail station in the Washington Park section of Newark, New Jersey, United States. The station is a single low-level platform for trains used by the Newark Light Rail branch to Newark Broad Street station. Riverfront Stadium station is a northbound-only stop, and the site of the former stadium is located across Broad Street from the terminus.
The station opened on July 17, 2006, when an extension from Newark Penn Station opened to Broad Street station. [4] Riverfront Stadium station attained its name from the Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, an independent baseball league ballpark. The station was located next to the entrance to Gate C; however, the stadium closed in 2013, and the city razed the stadium in 2019.
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