Eaton Ave. and Albany St., New Brunswick, New Jersey. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 22, 1984. NRIS 84002732.
Part of Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR (NRIS 64000496).
1 contributing building.
New Brunswick is an active commuter railroad train station in the city of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. The station services trains of New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and Amtrak's Keystone Service and Northeast Regional. For New Jersey Transit trains, the next station to the southwest (towards Trenton Transit Center) is Jersey Avenue, while the next station to the northeast (towards New York Penn Station) is Edison. For Amtrak services, the next station southwest is Princeton Junction, the next station to the northeast is Metropark. The station consists of two handicap-accessible side platforms surrounding the four tracks.
Railroad service in New Brunswick began on January 1, 1838, with the extension of the New Jersey Railroad from East Brunswick (modern-day Highland Park) over the Raritan River. Construction of the current station depot at the junction of Albany and French Streets (State Route 27) and Easton Avenue (County Route 527) began in October 1903, opening on September 28, 1904, for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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