Benson Street
The Benson Street station in February 2015.
General information
Location	77 Benson Street,Glen Ridge,New Jersey 07028
Owned by	Norfolk Southern (formerlyErie Railroad,Conrail,New Jersey Transit)
Line	Boonton Line
Platforms	2 ground-level
Tracks	2
Construction
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	1735 (Erie Railroad)[6]
History
Opened	January 1, 1873[1][2][3]
Closed	September 20, 2002; 23 years ago (2002-09-20)[4]
Rebuilt	1883[5]
Electrified	Not electrified
Previous names	Glen Ridge,[7] Chestnut Hill
Former services
Preceding station NJ Transit Following station Walnut Street towardHackettstown Boonton Line Rowe Street towardHoboken Preceding station Erie Railroad Following station Montclair towardSterling Forest New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Bloomfield towardJersey City
Location

Benson Street is a former train station located in a residential section of the borough ofGlen Ridge,New Jersey.

The station was constructed in 1883 in a unique English Tudor design with stucco facades and a slate roof^[5] as part of theNew York and Greenwood Lake Railway, anErie Railroad operation, and was known as Glenwood. It had a two platform, two track station with the gas lights on the side of tracks.^[7] It later became a stop onNew Jersey Transit Rail OperationsBoonton Line, which runs fromHoboken Terminal toHackettstown, and renamed Benson Street. Service was discontinued to Benson Street (along withRowe Street inBloomfield andArlington inKearny) on September 20, 2002^[4] when theMontclair Connection was opened.^[8] Glen Ridge is serviced to the south atGlen Ridge station in the downtown commercial district.

In May 2009, the Benson Street station was sold to private owners byNew Jersey Transit to rehabilitate the aging structure, and the new owners began stabilizing the structure which had been damaged by a fire in the 1980s and was in serious disrepair. The building is part of theGlen Ridge Historic District. On December 2, 2009, after a review from theNew Jersey State Historical Preservation Organization, the new owners received approval to begin preliminary reconstruction of the former Benson Street Station. This rehabilitation project started by restructuring the basement of the building.^[9] By June 2010, the station had received new gutters, new walls and brand new roofing. Parts of the building's first floor paneling was kept, although the second story requires brand new paneling as it is converted into a new single family home.^[5] The restoration of the building was completed around May 2012. As of 2013 it is now a single family home, although one platform in the building is still present today.^[10]

• Operating Passenger Railroad Stations Thematic Resource (New Jersey)
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New Jersey

• Baxter, Raymond J.; Adams, Arthur G. (1999).Railroad Ferries of the Hudson: And Stories of a Deckhand.Fordham, New York:Fordham University Press.ISBN 9780823219544.
• Catlin, George L. (1873).Homes on the Montclair Railway, for New York Business Men. A Description of the Country Adjacent to the Montclair Railway, Between Jersey City and Greenwood Lake.New York, New York: Montclair Railway Company.
• Whittemore, Henry (1894).History of Montclair Township, State of New Jersey: Including the History of Families who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Prosperity. New York, New York: The Suburban Publishing Company. RetrievedFebruary 6, 2020.

• Media related toBenson Street (NJT station) at Wikimedia Commons

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