 What is now the easternmost part of I @-@ 280 was legislated as Route 25A in 1939 . This route was a branch of Route 25 ( US 1 / 9 ) that ran from Jersey City west through Kearny and Harrison across the Passaic River and into Newark , connecting with Route 21 and Clifton Avenue . The William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge opened in 1949 , with approaches stretching east to Harrison Avenue ( now CR 508 ) in Harrison ( crossing Cleveland Avenue and Hamilton Street at @-@ grade ) and west beyond Route 21 to Broad Street . Route 25A was redesignated as Route 58 in the 1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering , and the next year an extension opened west beyond Clifton Avenue to Orange Street east of Duryea Street . 
