Route 7 (New Jersey)
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Image:Circle sign 7.svg Route 7 is a state highway in New Jersey, United States. It has two sections.
Image:Wittpenn Bridge.jpg Section 1 runs from the U.S. Route 1 and U.S. 9 Truck routes in Jersey City, an intersection commonly known as the Charlotte Circle, to the line between Kearny and Belleville at the Passaic River. (This route was once the route of an aqueduct carrying water to Jersey City.) This stretch of road is known for most of its length as the Belleville Turnpike. East of its intersection with County Route 508, it carries that route's name, Newark and Jersey City Turnpike. NJ 7 crosses the Hackensack River between Kearny and Jersey City on the Wittpenn Bridge.
Section 2 runs from the border between Newark and Belleville at the Second River to the border between Essex and Passaic counties in Nutley. This section uses Washington Avenue in Belleville, Nutley, and Clifton, Kingsland Road in Clifton, Kingsland Street and Cathedral Avenue in Nutley, and the section ends less than one-half mile from Route 3. Prior to the 1950s, NJ 7 was signed south to Newark and north to Paterson along Section 2.
Rutgers Street in Belleville, named for Colonel Henry Rutgers, is used to connect the two sections. It is signed as part of NJ 7, but it is officially part of County Route 506. Section 2 of NJ 7 is not signed between the Second River and Rutgers Street except on overhead signs suspended from traffic signals.