Essex Street station (NJ Transit)

Essex Street station is an active commuter railroad station in the city of Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey. Located at the junction of the eponymous Essex Street (County Route 56) and Railroad Avenue, the station serves trains of NJ Transit's Pascack Valley Line between Hoboken Terminal and Spring Valley, New York. It is one of two active stations in Hackensack, with the station at Anderson Street at the other end of Railroad Avenue. Essex Street station serves as a park and ride, with a 221-space parking lot west of the single side platform. The platform is low-level except for a single section for those with disabilities.

Essex Street station, originally named Hackensack, marked the original terminus of the Hackensack and New York Railroad, a small branch line off the Erie Railroad from Rutherford to Hackensack. Service at the station began on January 21, 1861. The station served as the northern end of the line until September 9, 1869, when service was extended north to Anderson Street. After the railroad went into receivership in 1878, it became part of the New Jersey and New York Railroad, operated by the Erie after 1896. During Erie operation, the station served as one of four stops in Hackensack, with stations also operated at Central Avenue and Fairmount Avenue.

The station depot at Hackensack station burned on September 1, 1969 and after litigation to save the structure, the railroad razed the building on July 1970.