New Brunswick
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The 1903 station building as seen from Albany Street
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Location | French and Albany Streets at Easton Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States |
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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 |
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Disabled access | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | NBK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1903 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Passengers (2012) | 4,976 (average weekday) (NJT) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Passengers (FY 2015) | 8,365 6% (Amtrak) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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New Brunswick Station
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Coordinates | 40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°WCoordinates: 40°29′47″N 74°26′47″W / 40.49639°N 74.44639°W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Built | 1903 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect | William H. Brown, chief engineer of the Pennsylvania Railroad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NRHP Reference # | 84002732 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NJRHP # | 1875 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Designated NJRHP | March 17, 1984 |
New Brunswick 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.