Watsessing Avenue (NJT Station) - Station Layout and Services

Station Layout and Services

Watsessing Avenue station is located on the corner of Watsessing Avenue and Orange Street at Westinghouse Plaza in Bloomfield and is just blocks from the East Orange city line. The former depot is currently used by the Bloomfield Police Benevolent Association. There are two below-street-level platforms at the Watsessing station. Ticket vending machines are available at street level on Watsessing Avenue and a $5 surcharge applies if riders buy them on the train; the Montclair-Boonton Line added vending machines to the remaining stations that did not have them in 2011.

The Watsessing Avenue station is not handicap accessible, and people have to use the Newark Broad Street Station or Bay Street Station for handicap accessibility. The station also has two parking lots for use. Maintained by the Bloomfield Parking Authority, the first is on Westinghouse Plaza (near the former Westinghouse Lamp Plant) and has fourteen parking spaces. The parking uses daily parking rules, paying six days a week at $0.25 an hour, except for Sunday, when parking is free. A second lot is available at the intersection of Myrtle Street and Walnut Street. It has forty-five parking spots, two of which are handicap accessible. The lot also contains permit spaces six days a week and free on Sundays, with a cost of $20 parking per quarter (three months).

The station sees service on the Montclair-Boonton Line on a common basis, with twenty-three of thirty inbound trains serving the station, the first starting from Montclair State University Station at Little Falls at 5:38 am. The last inbound train to service the station stops at Watsessing Avenue at 9:30 pm. The first outbound train that serves Watsessing Avenue departs from Hoboken Terminal at 6:54 am. The last outbound train on weekdays to serve the station is which serves the station at 1:05 am the next morning. On weekends, service via trains stops at Watsessing Avenue (one of five stops made by Montclair-Boonton trains to Bay Street. The first inbound train stops at Watsessing Avenue station at 7:12 am while the bi-hourly service ends at 12:12 am the next morning. The station's outbound service to Bay Street begins at Hoboken Terminal at 6:08 am, stopping at Watsessing Avenue 22 minutes later. The last train begins at Hoboken at 1:17 am the next morning, arriving at Watsessing Avenue at 1:47 am. One way tickets from New York cost $6.25, reduced is $2.75, while a monthly pass is $169.00. From Hoboken, the costs are reduced to $4.75 one way, reduced costing only $2.25 and $133.00 for a monthly pass. From Newark Broad Street Station, its $2.25 for a one-way ticket, $1.00 reduced and $55.00 for a monthly pass. Only one local New Jersey Transit bus runs by Watsessing Avenue station, the 94, which also serves Bloomfield station.