Albany–Rensselaer station

Albany–Rensselaer
Amtrak intercity rail station CDTA bus stop
View of station from the parking deck
Location	525 East Street Rensselaer, New York
Coordinates	42°38′29″N 73°44′28″W / 42.64139°N 73.74111°W / 42.64139; -73.74111Coordinates: 42°38′29″N 73°44′28″W / 42.64139°N 73.74111°W / 42.64139; -73.74111
Owned by	Capital District Transportation Authority
Operated by	Capital District Transportation Authority
Line(s)	Empire Corridor (Hudson Subdivision)
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	CDTA: 114, 214 Megabus: M27
Construction
Parking	512 spaces
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	ALB
History
Opened	September 2002
Traffic
Passengers (2016)	855,176  3.6%
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Schenectady toward Montreal Adirondack Hudson toward New York City Schenectady toward Niagara Falls, NY Empire Service Schenectady toward Rutland Ethan Allen Express Schenectady toward Toronto Maple Leaf Schenectady toward Chicago Lake Shore Limited Poughkeepsie toward New York City Pittsfield toward Boston South Station

Rensselaer Rail Station is a train station in Rensselaer, New York, located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from downtown Albany across the Hudson River. As of 2007^[update], the station was Amtrak's tenth-busiest station and by 2010 it had become the ninth-busiest, as well as the busiest to serve a metro area with a population smaller than 2 million. It is served by Amtrak's Empire Corridor routes, including the Lake Shore Limited, whose Boston and New York branches diverge at the station.

In order to distinguish this station from the Rensselaer station in Indiana, it is branded for Amtrak services as Albany–Rensselaer.

Operated by the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA), the current structure was completed in September 2002 and opened on the 22nd of that month. It features a Coffee Beanery coffeeshop, a newsstand, and a post office. It was designed by the Schenectady architecture firm Stracher–Roth Gilmore and the New York firm Vollmer Associates, with Ryan-Biggs of Troy providing structural engineering, Sage/Engineering Associates providing MEP engineering services, Erdman Anthony of Troy providing facilities engineering, and constructed by U. W. Marx/Bovis joint venture.

The intermodal station replaced two previous terminal buildings, one built in 1968 and the other in 1980. The 1968 building was torn down in order to expand the station's parking facility. Before 1968, trains stopped at Union Station in Albany. That building, located on Broadway, now houses the northeast headquarters of Bank of America (via predecessors Fleet Bank and Norstar Bank). The New York Central Railroad had plans to leave Albany, in part because Interstate 787 needed the space occupied by a rail yard, but the move took place under Penn Central's watch.