Sitting just to the east, and across from the Lehigh Valley station on the opposite side of the Lehigh River is this historic survivor, the Central of New Jersey's 1873 built Bethlehem passenger station.

Passenger service to Bethlehem over the Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad (L&S) began in 1868. The CNJ leased the L&S in 1871 in order to better compete with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, whose tracks ran along the opposite side of the Lehigh River. Easton was the preceding station, while Allentown was the following station, heading west. The current three-story building opened in 1873. The Bethlehem chapter of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce (the Jaycees) leased the second floor in 1962 and undertook a restoration of the structure. Passenger service ended on August 18, 1967. The CNJ's Harrisburg-Jersey City, New Jersey Queen of the Valley, and local service to Jersey City, New Jersey were the last trains out of the station.

The "Lehigh Street Depot" restaurant, later known as the "Main Street Depot", opened on the first floor in 1976. Conrail, successor to the CNJ, formally sold the property to the restaurant owners in 1982. The Main Street Depot closed in 2010; a new restaurant, "The Wooden Match", opened in 2011 and remains there to this day.