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 (2014)	8,898  1.7% (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 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
Coordinates
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 is a railroad station on the New Jersey Transit Northeast Corridor Line and the Amtrak Northeast Corridor (NEC) in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The station at the intersection of Easton Avenue and French and Albany Streets near the Old Queens campus of Rutgers University.

History

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 Amtrak Clocker trains, a popular commuter service serving the station, were transferred to NJT.

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.

Urban transit hub

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.

In addition to New Jersey Transit bus operations and Rutgers Campus buses, the station is served by local shuttles known as Brunsquick and DASH. Studies are underway to develop the New Brunswick Bus Rapid Transit system, of which the station would be the hub. NJ 18 and NJ 27, which intersect at the station, would function as the two major corridors for a bus network that would connect downtown, residential neighborhoods, the five campuses of Rutgers in the city and Piscataway, and proximate communities.

New Brunswick is one of nine cities in New Jersey designated as eligible for Urban Transit Hub Tax Credits by the state's Economic Development Authority. Developers who invest a minimum of $50 million within 0.5 miles of a train station are eligible for pro-rated tax credit. The Gateway is one such project located just to the north of station and connected by a new pedestrian bridge, creating a direct link to the Rutgers campus. It is the tallest building in the city and one of several new projects in the vicinity of the station that has led to a revitalization of the city's downtown surrounding it. Another planned building, a 16 story residential tower at Somerset Street located one block north of the station, is the second UTHTC-approved project in the city.

High-speed rail corridor

Northeast Corridor at New Brunswick looking Northeast

In August 2011 the United States Department of Transportation obligated $450 million to a six-year project to improve 24 miles (39 km) of the Northeast Corridor between New Brunswick and Trenton. The Next Generation High-Speed project is to upgrade electrical power, signals, and overhead catenary wires to improve reliability and increase speed to 160 mph (260 km/h), and with new trains to 186 mph (299 km/h).

See also

• Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad
• List of New Jersey Transit stations

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons

• Amtrak – Stations – New Brunswick, NJ

• NJT rail station information page for New Brunswick
• DepartureVision real time train information for New Brunswick
• NJT Northeast Corridor Line schedule
• New Brunswick Amtrak & New Jersey Transit Station (USA RailGuide -- Train Web)
• NJ DoT project description
• George Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Easton Avenue entrance from Google Maps Street View
• Albany Street entrance from Google Maps Street View
• New Brunswick, NJ (NBK) (Amtrak's Great American Stations)