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Anderson Street

Hackensack, Italy

Anderson Street

Anderson Street station is an active commuter railroad station in the city of Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Located at the junction of the eponymous Anderson Street and Railroad Avenue, the station services trains of NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line between Spring Valley station in Spring V

alley, New York and Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey. Anderson Street is the northern of two stations in Hackensack, the other being Essex Street station several blocks south. The station consists of a low-level side platform and a large station shelter to facilitate coverage for passengers. Anderson Street station has a 50-space parking lot on Railroad Avenue. Anderson Street station opened on September 7, 1869 when service on the Hackensack and New York Railroad was extended north from the Passaic Street station in Hackensack, which opened in 1866. Railroad service ended at Anderson Street until March 4, 1870, when service was extended to Hillsdale. At the time of opening, the railroad built a wooden-frame station depot on Anderson Street to service customers. The station depot would become the home of the Green Caboose, a thrift shop that opened in May 1966 to fund the Hackensack...

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