Raymond Boulevard is a major thoroughfare in

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. The eastern portion of the road acts as the westbound member of a

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; eastbound traffic uses Market Street and Ferry Street. Raymond Boulevard carries eastbound and westbound traffic west of Market Street, passing through Newark Penn Station and intersecting with McCarter Highway (

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), Broad Street, Halsey Street, Washington Street, among others.

History

The street was built on the filled-in

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, a portion of which became the underground right-of-way for the Newark City Subway. The eastern were part of the

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Route description

The road carries traffic from the interchange at the west end of the

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( U.S. Route 1/9) and U.S. Route 1-9 Truck in the Ironbound, passing thorough historic Riverbank Park and abutting

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on the

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. At Pennsylvania Station, it enters the high-tech corridor of

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and is lined with modern office

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s such as the Gateway Center, Newark Legal Center, One Newark Center, and 80 Park Plaza. The

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building, an

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office tower and one of the tallest buildings in Newark, is named for its Raymond Boulevard address, across from Military Park. The avenue crosses Broad Street two blocks north of

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, the traditional center of the city. Proceeding west, it passes the campuses of Rutgers–Newark and

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. At the Warren Street intersection, Raymond Boulevard ends when it merges into Lock Street.

Major intersections

References

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