"New Jersey Route 22" redirects here. For the current highway called Route 22, see U.S. Route 22 in New Jersey.
Route 59
Lincoln Avenue
Alignment of Route 59 in red
Route information
Maintained by NJDOT
Length
0.15 mi[1] (240 m)
Existed
1953–present
Major junctions
South end
CR 610 in Cranford
North end
Route 28 on Cranford–Garwood line
Location
Country
United States
State
New Jersey
Counties
Union
Highway system
New Jersey State Highway Routes
Interstate
US
State
Scenic Byways
← Route 58
→ Route 60
← US 22
Route 22
→ Route 23
Route 59 is the shortest state highway in New Jersey, United States, at 0.15-mile (0.24 km) long.[2] The route consists entirely of a short block of Lincoln Avenue from Union County Route 610 (known locally as South Avenue) in Cranford to New Jersey Route 28 (known locally as North Avenue) along the Cranford–Garwood border. The route functions as an underpass under the Raritan Valley Line of NJ Transit, under which it crosses about halfway down the block, along the municipal border. Route 59 was originally a proposed alignment of Route 22, which was supposed to head from an intersection with current day New Jersey Route 159 in Morris County at the Pine Brook Bridge before heading through several counties, terminating at an intersection with New Jersey Route 27 in Rahway. Most of the route was not constructed, and a portion in Garwood and Cranford was re-designated Route 59 in the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering on January 1, 1953.
^"Route 59 Straight Line Diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. 2009. p. 1. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
^Roberts, Russell. New Jersey's Atlantic Shore: From Sandy Hook to Atlantic City & on to Cape May, p. 3. Hunter Publishing, 2011. ISBN 9781588439796. Accessed October 27, 2019. "The shortest highway in America is in New Jersey. Route 59, clocking in at a whopping 792 feet, is located on the border of Cranford and Garwood. It was originally built in 1931 to be part of Route 22, but plans changed."
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Global Information
CR 610 in Cranford
Route 28 on Cranford–Garwood line
