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Anderson Street station
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Anderson Street is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line. The station is one of two rail stations in Hackensack (the other being Essex Street) and located at Anderson Street near Linden Street.
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![]() Anderson Street station in April 2014, after completion of the new shelter that replaced the old 1869 station depot. | |||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||
Location | Anderson Street and Linden Avenue Hackensack, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
Owned by | New Jersey Transit | ||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 (formerly 2[1]) | ||||||||||||
Connections | ![]() | ||||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||||
Parking | 50 spaces (at Anderson Street and Linden Avenue) | ||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Lockers available | ||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||
Station code | 769 (Erie Railroad)[2] | ||||||||||||
Fare zone | 5 | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
Opened | September 9, 1869 (154 years ago) (1869-09-09) | ||||||||||||
Key dates | |||||||||||||
January 10, 2009 | Station depot burned[3] | ||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||
2012 | 359 (average weekday)[4] | ||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||
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Formerly listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |||||||||||||
![]() Anderson Street station in 1910 looking to the northwest. | |||||||||||||
Location | Anderson Street, Hackensack, New Jersey | ||||||||||||
Coordinates | 40°53′39″N 74°02′40″W | ||||||||||||
Area | 0.3 acres (0.1 ha) | ||||||||||||
Built | 1869 | ||||||||||||
Architectural style | Carpenter Gothic | ||||||||||||
MPS | Operating Passenger Railroad Stations TR | ||||||||||||
NRHP reference No. | 84002520[5] | ||||||||||||
Significant dates | |||||||||||||
Added to NRHP | June 22, 1984 | ||||||||||||
Removed from NRHP | May 18, 2011 | ||||||||||||
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The station house was built in 1869 (and opened on September 9, 1869) by the Hackensack and New York Railroad on a track extension from Passaic Street in Hackensack. The station was turned over to the Erie Railroad in 1896 and New Jersey Transit in 1983. The next year, the station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The station building, which was 139 years old, was destroyed in a three-alarm fire and explosion at 5:55 a.m. on January 10, 2009. At the time, the station house was the second-oldest (active service) in New Jersey (second to Ramsey's Main Street station). The station building was also the site for the Green Caboose Thrift Shop, a charity gift shop maintained by a branch of the Hackensack University Medical Center from 1962 until the station depot burned in 2009.