NJ Transit Preps For Major Renovations At New Brunswick Train Station

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — NJ Transit will hold a press conference Tuesday to kick off the impending major renovation of the New Brunswick train station.

This is a multi-year, multi-phase renovation. Gov. Phil Murphy and NJ Transit president Kris Kolluri will be at the train station Tuesday, where they will reveal specifics of the first phase.

The New Brunswick train station is getting a major makeover as Rutgers and the state of New Jersey aim to open the HELIX, a five-acre science/tech/"innovation campus" currently under construction across the street. The HELIX will be the new home of Rutgers Medical School; Nokia Bell Labs and Tel Aviv University are also confirmed as tenants.

In the future, many more changes to the New Brunswick train station are coming, including renovations to the eastbound and westbound platforms.

This is the first major renovation done to the New Brunswick station in its 120-year history.

The New Brunswick train station will remain fully open and operational while the work is done.

NJ Transit called the upgrades "crucial" and said the New Brunswick train station is a key stop on its busy Northeast Corridor line.

Both NJ Transit and Amtrak trains stop at the New Brunswick station.

“The modernization of the New Brunswick train station will provide much-needed updates to the 120-year-old-station,” said Middlesex County Commissioner Charles Kenny. “This will encourage the use of mass transit to travel to and from New Brunswick whether for the arts, work, medical care or recreation."