02. Center Street Station

A melting pot of business and pleasure travelers, blue- and white-collar workers and cultures, Center Street Station hosts a little bit of everything at any given time. Lawyers ride the elevated train to the rail station next to freight handlers; vacationing families board the coach cars while finance consultants travel first class. Center Street Station is the second most vital commuter center in town, the place from which interstate trains depart and the most traveled local transit route deploys. Central Street Station is cluttered and busy, but with the honest debris accumulated over the course of a business day. Scores of newsstands, fast-food joints, corner shops and street vendors all vie for attention here, seemingly without pause.

Background

Center Street Station focuses all the character of Newcastle into a single, kinetic burst of pedestrian experience. Everything in the city is here because everybody passes through it sooner or later. The neighborhood occasionally ghettoizes in response with whichever ethnicity or nationality has made particularly heavy emigration to Newcastle, but that turns over every five to seven years, changing to accommodate a new cultural demographic. Right now it’s cycling out of a strong North African phase and into a Czech tenancy.

Alternative Name(s)

Rail Station

Type

District

Location under

New Castle