Harriet Tubman Square Station | |||||||||||
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 Harriet Tubman Square station in 2024 | |||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Broad Street and Bridge Street Newark, New Jersey | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°44′37.95″N 74°10′12.27″W / 40.7438750°N 74.1700750°W | ||||||||||
| Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
| Connections |  NJ Transit Bus: 1, 11, 13, 27, 28, go28, 29, 30, 41, 59, 76, 378[1] | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes[2] | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 1 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | July 17, 2006[3] | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Washington Park | ||||||||||
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Harriet Tubman Square station (formerly Washington Park) is a light rail station on the Newark Light Rail system. It is located in Downtown Newark, New Jersey, United States, on the southbound side of Broad Street between Bridge and Lombardy Streets adjacent to Harriet Tubman Square. The station is only served by southbound trains; the nearby Atlantic Street station is its northbound counterpart. It opened on July 17, 2006, as part of the extension to Newark Broad Street station.[4]
The station also features two installations of public art by Willie Cole, a native Newarker and African American conceptual and visual artist.[5]
- ^ "Broad Street Station Area" (PDF) (Map). NJ Transit. August 2021. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
- ^ "Harriet Tubman Square Station". NJ Transit. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
- ^ "Broad Street Extension of Newark Light Rail Celebrates 10 Years". New Jersey Transit (Press release). Newark, New Jersey. July 18, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
- ^ New Jersey Transit Travel Alert announcing opening of Newark Light Rail Extended service.
- ^ WASHINGTON PARK STATION; NEWARK, NEW JERSEY