Penn Station to Broad Street Station

NJ PAC- Center Street has two side platforms and two tracks. On the East side is NJ State Highway 21 (McCarter highway) separated via a small grass area and glass rear walls of the platform and the NJ-PAC is on the west and merges into the Southbound platform. The station is specially designed with a dual floating track bed to isolate train noise from the nearby performing arts center.

The platforms are granite with chevron brick accents facing the direction of normal traffic. The NJ PAC approach features a Walk of Fame with performers at the NJ-PAC and other famous New Jersey residents or those born in New Jersey.

The track bed features a multi color granite inlay and is entitled "Riding with Sarah [Vaughan] and Wayne [Shorter] by Athena Tacha, 2004 . The edge of the platform behind the tactile ADA edging has the words to Body and Soul as sung by Sarah Vaughan and was used to launch her career

New Jersey Walk of Fame

Name Birth/Death NJ Connection Occupation

Lou Costello 1906-1954 Born in Paterson Comedian. Abbott & Costello

Bud Abbott 1895-1974 Born in Asbury Park Comedian. Abbott & Costello

Eddie Murphy 1961- Lives in Englewood Comedian

Celeste Holm Lives in Port Murray Actress

John Travolta 1954 Born in Englewood Performer, TV Star

Sawion Glover 1973 Born in Newark Tap Dancer

Sarah Vaughan 1924-1990 Born in Newark Singer

Daniel M "Danny" DeVito 11/17/1924- Born in Neptune Actor, Director, Producer, writer

Meryl Streep 1949- Born in Summit Actress

Jack Nicholson 1937- Born in Neptune Actor

Ernie Kovacs 1919- Born in Trenton TV personality

Susan Sarandon 1946- Grew up in Edison- Edison High School class of 1964 Actress, activist

Queen Latifah Talk Show Host, author, singer, entrepreneur

Nathan Lane 1956- Born in Jersey City Broadway performer

Frank Sinatra 1915-1998 Born in Hoboken Singer

Celia Cruz 1924?-2003 Lives in Fort Lee Queen of Salsa (Singer)

Bruce Springsteen 1949 Born in Freehold Singer

Jerry Lewis 1926- Born in Newark Movies, MDA Telethon

Dionne Warwick 1940- Born in East Orange Singer

Ben Vereen Lives in Saddle River Performer

Whitney Houston 1963 Born In Newark Singer. Former member New Hope Baptist Church Junior Choir

Franki Valli 1957 Born in Newark Singer- The Four Seasons

Frederica Von Stade "Flicka" 1945 Born in Somerville Opera Singer

Tony Bennett 1926- Lived in Englewood Singer, painter, humanitarian

Neeme Järvi Lived in Rumson for a while 12^th musical director of the NJ Symphony Orchestra

Kathleen Battle 1948- Opera singer

Judith Jamison 1943- Dancer, Choreographer

Wynton Marsalis 1961- Band leader

Itzhak Perlman 1945- Violinist

Yo-Yo Ma 1955- Cellist

the line now splits into two separate lines running on Atlantic Street (Street running) and onto Division Street and turning North onto Broad Street (Also street running). The two tracks are separated by the Verizon and IDT Buildings. In fact, IF you had a pass to one of the buildings you could walk through the building to the other station

Atlantic STREET

Atlantic Street (NORTHBOUND ONLY) - Atlantic Street and Bridge Street (Street running) has one side platform (East side). The station honors a nearby post office with a post card and postmark theme. The artwork is entitled "Postcards from the Past" by Kate Dodd (No date found). The scenes are:

Newark, NJ The Renaissance City
Regeneration for the next generation
Passing through Port Newark
Seduced by the suburbs
Ensuring Insurance? A capital idea
A house of knowledge for all
A Town known for its fine breweries
What goes in must come out
Newark shoes keep the southerners on their toes
Running to, through, and from New Jersey
The Boyden Buzz is contagious
Outsiders needing cider
Fair trade
Theocracy comes alive
Lenapes headed to Newark shellfish season



WASHINGTON PARK

Washington Park (SOUTHBOUND ONLY) Broad Street and Bridge Street has one side platform (West side) The park is just beyond the platform which features wagon wheel with zigzag art and is made of bluestone



RIVERFRONT STADIUM

Riverfront Stadium (NORTHBOUND ONLY) Atlantic Street at the Stadium has one side platform (East side). This station is a disappointment due to missing an obvious theme for artwork of baseball. There is NO art here! If your webmaster had their say a whimsical baseball theme would be installed with Bears playing baseball - either bronze statue figures or on the platform mosaic. The minor league team is called the Newark Bears.

The two tracks meet (The northbound curves towards the Southbound track with both briefly running on Broad Street and we curve onto Lackawanna Avenue at the intersection Lackawanna and University and enter our last stop (For now at least).\



BROAD STREET

Newark Broad Street Rail Station is also street running and has two tracks with an island platform. The NJT Heavy rail station is across the street.The artwork is by Ik Joong Kahn and is entitled Happy Newark and is a colorful array of 100 images with Children featuring magical powers of winter becoming spring, walls becoming windows, and strangers becoming friends. Behind the tactile edge are the words to Send in the Clowns. Leaving the station towards the geographic west, the two tracks merge into one and descend to a slight cut and end at a bump block and wall at Martin Luther King Blvd. Your webmaster questioned NJT personnel as to whether this could be for a future extension and was told they did not know. AT one time, NJT did plan an extension to Newark Liberty International Airport and to Elizabeth tying in with a proposed Union County Light Rail. This project has been removed from the NJT web site. This site will not deal with speculation but just note the apparent provision

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Last revised 11/22/2011

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