New Brunswick (NJT station)

New Brunswick
The 1903 station building as seen from Albany Street
Location	French and Albany Streets at Easton Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States
Owned by	NJT
Line(s)	Northeast Corridor
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	4
Connections	NJT Bus: 810, 811, 813, 815, 818 Rutgers Campus Buses Brunsquick Shuttles DASH 1 & 2 Suburban Trails: Line 100, Dunellen local
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Station code	NBK
Fare zone	14
History
Opened	1903
Traffic
Passengers (2012)	4,976 (average weekday) (NJT)
Passengers (FY 2015)	8,365  6% (Amtrak)
Services
Preceding station   Amtrak   Following station Princeton Junction toward Harrisburg Keystone Service Metropark toward New York City Princeton Junction toward Norfolk, Newport News, or Lynchburg Northeast Regional Metropark toward Boston South Station or Springfield Princeton Junction toward Savannah Palmetto Metropark toward New York City NJ Transit Rail Jersey Avenue toward Trenton Northeast Corridor Line Edison toward New York Penn Station   Former services   Pennsylvania Railroad Adams toward Chicago Main Line Stelton toward New York City or Exchange Place
New Brunswick Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
New Jersey Register of Historic Places
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Coordinates	40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°W / 40.49639; -74.44639Coordinates: 40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°W / 40.49639; -74.44639
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1903 (1903)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival
MPS	Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR
NRHP Reference #	84002732
NJRHP #	1875
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	June 22, 1984
Designated NJRHP	March 17, 1984

New Brunswick station is a railroad station in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It serves Amtrak and NJ Transit trains on the Northeast Corridor. The station at the intersection of Easton Avenue and French and Albany Streets near the Old Queens campus of Rutgers University.

Train service to New Brunswick was begun by the New Jersey Railroad, northbound in 1838 and southbound in 1839. Its successor, Pennsylvania Railroad, built the current station in 1903 when the tracks were raised above street level. Service was eventually taken over by Penn Central and then Amtrak and New Jersey Transit. In 2005, the Clocker trains, a popular commuter service serving the station, were transferred to NJT. In October 2015 the southbound Palmetto began stopping here.

The depot was designed in the Colonial Revival style and includes walls of light brown brick, hipped roof with gabled dormers and a deep cornice with dentil molding at its base. Brick quoins at the corners of the building convey an impression of strength and solidity. Windows display a popular Georgian Revival pattern of 9-over-1. Sills are incorporated into a stone belt course that wraps around the building, while lintels are embellished with prominent keystones.

The station building has been listed in the state and federal registers of historic places since 1984 and is part of the Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource.

In 2005 the station was designated the core of the New Brunswick transit village, a smart growth initiative to promote transit-oriented development which can include government incentives to encourage compact, higher density, mixed-use development within walking distance of the station.