Suburban Station is an underground, art deco, commuter rail station in the Penn Center district of Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its official SEPTA address is 16th Street and JFK Boulevard. The station is operated by SEPTA and is one of the three core Center City stations on the SEPTA Regional Rail. It was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad to replace the original Broad Street Station and opened on September 28, 1930.
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