Glen Ridge is a New Jersey Transit station at the intersection of Bloomfield Avenue and Ridgewood Avenue in Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey along the Montclair-Boonton Line. Service through Glen Ridge comes from Hoboken Terminal and New York Penn Station and goes through to one of four termini, Bay Street (on weekends), Montclair State University, Dover and Hackettstown. The station depot is on-grade level with Ridgewood Avenue, with the platform and tracks below street-level.

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Glen Ridge
Glen Ridge station
General information
Location	224 Ridgewood Avenue (CR 653), Glen Ridge, New Jersey
Coordinates	40.8002°N 74.2043°W / 40.8002; -74.2043
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 11, 28, and 29 (all buses on Bloomfield Avenue)
Other information
Station code	603 (Delaware, Lackawanna and Western)[1]
Fare zone	4
History
Opened	1860[2]
Rebuilt	1872;[2] 1887[2]
Electrified	September 3, 1930[3]
Previous names	Ridgewood[4]
Passengers
2017	1,410 (average weekday)[5][6]
Services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Bay Street toward Hackettstown Montclair-Boonton Line Bloomfield toward New York or Hoboken
Former services Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Bay Street Terminus Montclair Branch Bloomfield toward Hoboken Preceding station Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Following station Montclair Terminus Montclair Branch Bloomfield toward Hoboken

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Railroad service through Glen Ridge began in 1860 with the construction of a platform on the Newark and Bloomfield Railroad at Prospect Street (modern-day Ridgewood Avenue) known as Ridgewood. The tracks were built eight years prior and no service in the area began until a nearby flag stop opened for a private entrepreneur in 1857. The railroad built a new wooden station at Ridgewood Avenue in 1872, replacing that in 1887.^[2]

The platforms at Glen Ridge, along with the stations at Bloomfield and Watsessing Avenue stations along the Montclair Branch were all built in 1912 during a grade separation program by the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. The Glen Ridge station, like the Watsessing Avenue station, was set below street level. It is a contributing property to the Glen Ridge Historic District and the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.^[7]

Glen Ridge's low-level side platforms are not accessible.

Glen Ridge the site of the train station scene in the 2003 film Mona Lisa Smile that starred Julia Roberts. It also appeared in Far From Heaven.

• Benson Street station
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey