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Watsessing Avenue station (also known as Watsessing) is a New Jersey Transit rail station in Bloomfield, New Jersey, along the Montclair-Boonton Line.It is located beneath the Bloomfield Police Benevolent Association meeting hall (which formerly served as the station building) near the corner of Watsessing Avenue and Orange Street in Bloomfield.
Bloomfield is a township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and an inner-ring suburb of Newark.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 53,105, [8] [9] an increase of 5,790 (+12.2%) from the 2010 census count of 47,315, [18] [19] which in turn reflected a decline of 368 (-0.8%) from the 47,683 counted in the 2000 census. [20]
In 1868 the Morris & Essex leased the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad, which connected Roseville Avenue to Bloomfield and Montclair, then West Bloomfield. In 1876 the new tunnel under Bergen Hill opened, after hostilities including a frog war in late 1870 and early 1871, caused by the M&E's attempts to modify the connection between their Boonton ...
The Morris & Essex began running services on the line, which was renamed the "Montclair Branch" when West Bloomfield was similarly renamed to "Montclair" shortly after. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad soon gained trackage rights, and by the turn of the 20th century, the railroad had begun constructing track depressions and raises ...
Voters in the Village of Essex Junction on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to separate from Essex town; the charter change now needs legislative approval
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These tracks ran between Orange Street and Seventh Avenue, until the Morris & Essex line branched off at Roseville Avenue and continued northwest, the original station serving both branches. [8] The station was designed with two platforms, one along each line, the Morris & Essex first made use of the Montclair Branch property in April 1868 ...
A Vermont post office, located on New England Drive in Essex Junction, is getting a pricey makeover, courtesy of the U.S Postal Service. Essex Junction post office tapped for $9 million makeover ...