 The station depot is on-grade level with Ridgewood Avenue, with the platform and tracks below street-level.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.