Editing New Jersey Route 7 (section)

=== Northern section ===
[[File:2018-07-18 15 20 26 View east along New Jersey State Route 7 (Kingsland Street) between Essex County Route 645 (Franklin Avenue) and Elm Place in Nutley Township, Essex County, New Jersey.jpg|right|thumb|Route&nbsp;7 eastbound through Nutley]]

The second section of Route 7, designated a north&ndash;south road, heads north on Washington Avenue from the [[Second River (New Jersey)|Second River]] crossing on the [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]/[[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]] border, passing through a business district.<ref name="gm2">{{google maps |url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=washington+avenue+and+mill+street+belleville+nj&daddr=cathedral+avenue+and+princeton+street+clifton+nj&hl=en&geocode=&mra=ls&sll=40.781224,-74.153895&sspn=0.007637,0.013733&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13 |title=overview of New Jersey Route 7 northern section |access-date=2009-04-01}}</ref> The route intersects [[County Route 506 (New Jersey)|County Route 506]] (Belleville Avenue), and that county route then forms a [[concurrency (road)|concurrency]] with Route 7 along the next block of Washington Avenue, to the intersection with Rutgers Street. At that point, County Route 506 heads to the east, ending at the intersection of Main Street, Rutgers Street, and bridge to Belleville (which is also the other section of Route 7).<ref name="SLD" />

[[File:2020-09-08 10 22 23 View west along New Jersey State Route 3 at the exit for New Jersey State Route 7-Passaic Avenue (Nutley, Passaic) in Clifton, Passaic County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|left|Signage for Route 7 on Route 3 in Clifton]]
Route 7 is not signed on Washington Avenue between the Second River bridge and Rutgers Street, except on some overhead signs suspended from traffic signals.<ref name="gm2" />

From the Rutgers Street intersection, Route 7 continues along Washington Avenue for about a mile and a half before reaching [[Nutley, New Jersey|Nutley]], still continuing on Washington Avenue into Nutley.<ref name="SLD" /> The road crosses Norfolk Southern's Newark Industrial Track line at an intersection with County Route 648 (Centre Street). At the intersection with County Route 646 (Park Avenue), Route 7 turns into a municipally maintained road and enters a more residential area.<ref name="SLD" /><ref name="gm2" /> Upon intersecting County Route 606 (Kingsland Road), Route 7 crosses into [[Clifton, New Jersey|Clifton]], [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic County]] and heads to the west on county-maintained Kingsland Street signed east&ndash;west.<ref name="SLD" /><ref name="gm2" /> Kingsland, carrying Route 7, crosses back into Nutley, regaining state maintenance. When Kingsland becomes County Route 644 at the intersection with Cathedral Avenue, Route 7 turns north from Kingsland onto Cathedral Avenue and comes to its terminus at Orange Street in Nutley. However, signage continues to indicate Route 7 up to the terminus of Cathedral Avenue at interchange with [[New Jersey Route 3|Route 3]] at the intersection of Cathedral Avenue, Passaic Avenue, and Ward Avenue.<ref name="SLD" /> Per NJDOT traffic regulations, the portion of Cathedral Avenue and Passaic Avenue within the vicinity of the Route 3 interchange in Clifton is under state jurisdiction.<ref name=CathedralNJDOT>{{cite web |url=https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/refdata/traffic_orders/speed/passaic_cathedral.shtm |title=Traffic Regulations - Orders of the Commissioner of Transportation; Passaic Avenue & Cathedral Avenue (vicinity of Route NJ 3) |publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation |date=November 19, 2012 |access-date=September 5, 2019}}</ref>