{"id":9301,"date":"2026-03-31T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2026-03-31T13:43:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:43:29","slug":"riverfront-stadium-nlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/riverfront-stadium-nlr\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverfront Stadium (NLR)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Riverfront Stadium was a baseball stadium built for Newark’s Atlantic League baseball team. Unfortunately, it was torn down in 2019, and there lies absolutely NOTHING here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Signage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The station consists of a hunk of concrete, a sign, another sign that tells you HOW to pay your fare (yikes!), and an emergency call point. That’s it. That’s the whole station. At this point, just walk to Broad Street. There isn’t even a saving grace for this sorry excuse of a station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Where’s the station?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oh…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I’m almost certain this was taken at Broad Street instead of Riverfront Stadium, but I have to pad out the photo count somehow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The good:

The bad: Existence.

Nearby points of interest: Broad Street Station<\/a> and Atlantic Street Station.

Transit connections:
NJT (Newark Light Rail)

Overall, this station should not exist.

Rating: 0.25\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riverfront Stadium was a baseball stadium built for Newark’s Atlantic League baseball team. Unfortunately, it was torn down in 2019, and there lies absolutely NOTHING here. The station consists of a hunk of concrete, a sign, another sign that tells you HOW to pay your fare (yikes!), and an emergency call point. That’s it. That’s … Continue reading “Riverfront Stadium (NLR)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-extra","category-othertransit","category-public-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9301\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseascorner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}