Anderson Street is a New Jersey Transit rail station on the Pascack Valley Line.

The original alignment of the Anderson Street station dates back to the chartering of the Hackensack and New York Railroad in 1856 by David P. Patterson and other investors.

Construction on the new 21-mile (34 km) long line began in 1866, with trains heading from New York City to the Passaic Street station in Hackensack.

[6] Although Hackensack was not a large hub, there were several rail lines serving the city, including the New Jersey Midland Line (now the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad) with stops at Main Street (at the Mercer Street intersection) and at Prospect Avenue.

Residents from the Anderson Street area donated $2,600 (1869 USD) to have a new station depot constructed along new tracks heading northward.

No official style of architecture was mentioned for Anderson Street in the 1920 Final Engineering Report due to lack of design.

[1] By 1870, the tracks had been extended northward to Hillsdale, and public service began on the line on March 4 of that year.

The service was extended northward to the community of Haverstraw, New York, and in 1896, the rail line was leased by the private company to the Erie Railroad.

The nearby watchman's shanty, closed on Sundays, were repainted to tan and green with a red roof.

Service on the Pascack Valley Line had to be stopped indefinitely until they could demolish the unsafe site of the former station building and inspect the area to allow train usage.

Hackensack city manager Stephen Lo Iacono was notified of the fire and deemed it a "devastating loss for the community."