NJPAC/Center Street (NCS station)

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NJPAC/Center Street Station is a light rail station on the Newark City Subway's second line (the first segment of the proposed Newark-Elizabeth Rail Link). Service on this line opened on July 17, 2006, at 1:00 p.m. EDT. [New Jersey Transit Travel Alert announcing opening of Newark Light Rail Extended service.]

It is located in Downtown Newark, New Jersey, on the south west corner of the McCarter Highway and Center Street at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center at the northern end of Military Park. The station is above ground, as is the rest of the line to the north. To the south, after crossing Center Street, the train enters a tunnel to the underground station at Newark Penn Station. NJPAC/Center Street is the southernmost station on this line, which links two of Newark's three train stations. To the south of Center Street is Newark Penn Station and to the north is Broad Street Station with stops at Atlantic Street Station and Bears and Eagles Riverfront Stadium Station on game days. Riding southbound the train leaves Broad Street and stops at Washington Park Station, NJPAC/Center Street, and Penn Station.

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