Vreeland Avenue (NYS&W station)

Vreeland Avenue

Location

Vreeland Avenue at 21st Avenue
Paterson, New Jersey

Owned by

Line(s)

New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad

Platforms

1 side platform

Tracks

Other information

Station code

1113 (Erie Railroad)

History

Opened

1873; 144 years ago

Closed

June 30, 1966; 51 years ago

Electrified

Not electrified

Services

Preceding station		Erie Railroad		Following station
East Paterson toward Susquehanna Transfer or Pavonia Terminal		New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad		Broadway-Paterson toward Stroudsburg

Vreeland Avenue was railroad station in Paterson, New Jersey served by the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (NYS&W). Opened in 1873 by the New Jersey Midland, a predecessor to the NYS&W, it closed in 1966. Other existing original station buildings from the New Jersey Midland can be found at Vreeland Avenue, Wortendyke, Butler, and Newfoundland among other places.

The location in the People's Park neighborhood is planned station on the proposed Passaic–Bergen Rail Line, a dormant New Jersey Transit Rail Operations project.