The Federal Transit Administration awarded an $83.3 million grant to NJ Transit supporting a project to revitalize the historic Brick Church Station in East Orange, which opened in 1921.

Moynihan Train Hall, as it’s called, opened Friday, and it’s part of a $1.6 billion project that will include elaborate lounges, restaurants and passageways to Penn Station.

Trinity Episcopal Church in the Southport section of town was established nearly 300 years ago. Twenty families met for worship at its first meeting house on Mill Plain Road on Thanksgiving Day ...