McCarter Highway through the years...

 

Route 21 aka McCarter Highway looking east - 1957.

1950.

McCarter Highway & Cherry Street in 1959.

McCarter Hwy in 1961. 

McCarter Highway dedication in 1943. 

McCarter Highway with a locomotive GG1 speeding up to hell...

Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, Freight Station. Then, Ward Street & Mechanic Street; now, McCarter Highway & Edison Place.

Vincent Boniello wrote:from what I understand it was a refrigeration warehouse and it was less expensive to retrofit it than to knock it down. It was what I believe built like a fortress. It opened on 1st August 1907.

Luis Arroyo answers Mark Arritola: Yes! here is a map of the second story indoor rail yard. Today Mechanic Street is Edison Place. Ward Street is now NJ Route 21 - McCarter Hwy. Lawrence Street is now Columbia Avenue.