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Station Review #82: Watsessing Avenue (NJT)

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Watsessing Avenue is a station on NJT's Montclair-Boonton Line located at Watsetting Avenue and Moiter Place in Watsetting, NJ. Watsetting Avenue station is in zone 4.  History Watsessing Avenue was a station built by the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad in 1856. The line was then bought out by the Morris and Essex railroad in 1868, the entirety of which was then later bought out by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. Every grade crossing was eliminated between 1912 and 1913. In that time, the current station was built.  Tour The station from the outside  Watsessing is an average station along the Montclair-Boonton line. There's not much to this place, really. Most of the station house is now used for a police department's union building. Watsessing Avenue is incredibly similar to Kingsland station, albeit slightly less bad.   Back of station house I think this used to be a ticket office of some sort yea...