Warren Street/NJIT station

Warren Street/NJIT
Warren Street/NJIT
	Warren Street/NJIT station in March 2015.
General information
Location	Lock Street; at Warren Street; Newark, New Jersey
Coordinates	40°44′32.92″N 74°10′53.21″W / 40.7424778°N 74.1814472°W
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
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Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 71, 73, and 79; (to Orange and points west only)
History
Opened	1935
Rebuilt	2010 – 2011
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead lines
Services

Warren Street/NJIT Station is one of four underground stations on the Newark City Subway Line (blue) of the Newark Light Rail system. It is the furthest station from Downtown Newark that is underground. The station is owned and service is operated by New Jersey Transit. The station has entrances on both sides of Lock Street, just north of Warren Street in University Heights. The is decorated with beige tiles and colored tiles for borders, mosaics and street indicator signs. This station is not wheelchair accessible. The nearest accessible stations are Washington Street and Orange Street.

History

In 1910, the Public Service Railway planned to build two subway lines meeting at Broad Street (now Military Park). The east-west subway line (#7), which was eventually built in the old Morris Canal bed with Raymond Boulevard built over it. Construction on the line began in 1929 and service starting on the line on May 26, 1935 by the Public Service Corporation of New Jersey. Additionally, the station contained a connection to the Main Street line until March 30, 1952 when the route was converted into bus route #21.^[1]

On March 7, 2011, the station's name was officially changed from Warren Street to Warren Street/NJIT with the help of New Jersey Institute of Technology and its students who initiated (and paid for) the name-change/makeover project.^[2]