The highway was constructed into Interstate 280 in the 1950s, and the route persisted internally until the 1990s, when it was finally removed as a designation.

The highway interchanged with Clifton Avenue heading westbound and Martin Luther King Boulevard a short distance later.

The interchange with Martin Luther King Boulevard accessed the nearby Newark Broad Street Station.

[5] That year, the New Jersey State Highway Department proposed construction of a new freeway to help alleviate traffic on the State Highway Route 10 corridor, designated as the Essex Freeway from the New Jersey Turnpike in Hudson County westward to U.S. Route 46 in Morris County.

[7] In 1958, the State Highway Department gave Route 58 its official new designation, Interstate 280, when construction began on an extended Essex Freeway.