đź«’INTEL: STATION SIX BAKERY-CAFE OPENS IN ALBANY. (The cold brew lattes are your reason to go.)
Jordan Cambron has designed kitchens, worked in interior design + architecture, and made traditional coffee and hot chocolate in a bar in his home city of Morelia, Mexico. Now the young designer has opened Station Six, a bakery-cafe, at 125 Jefferson Street in downtown Albany.
The former fire house within view of the NYS Museum and Empire State Plaza had been vacant in spite of efforts to redevelop it. Now, the brick building with its green overhead firehouse door, has a shiny new kitchen and a new name. — SDP
In the former Engine 6 fire house at the corner of Swan and Jefferson, Jordan Cambron bakes pastries, cold brews coffee + cans coffee drinks to order.
Story/photos: Susie Davidson Powell/for The Dishing
Early look: May 10, 2026
SOFT OPENING FOR STATION SIX
Built in the 1850s, the former Engine 6 station at 125 Jefferson was a working fire house until its closure in 1986. And while it stated vacant for many years after that, the reddit threads rumoring renovation and redevelopment had endless false leads, including the promising moment when the huge TILLERMAN letters were added to the building before that project stalled in 2010. More recently, the rumor mill forecast a restaurant, but the station purportedly found interim use as classic car storage, a campaign headquarters, and a temporary streetwear store. But, over the past year, we have patiently followed @station.six_ on Instagram waiting for signs of an official opening. And friends, that day is here!
Station Six—kitchen. coffee. market—is in its soft opening week (May, 2026) with the focus on their in-house baked goods and cold brewed coffee, while the menu is under development. The shiny stainless steel of the kitchen hood is pristine, but owner Jordan Cambron is taking requests for breakfast sandwiches and turning out a house “double Cheddar, scrambled egg and bacon on buttery sliced brioche with chipotle aioli.” The countertop pastry case is filled with house-baked croissants, almond croissants, spinach feta cheese pastries, cinnamon rolls, and apple turnovers, fresh from the oven. The adjoining cafe space has original fixtures, an industrial metal sliding door, exposed brick, the original overhead firehouse door that will be open in warmer weather, counter stools and small tables for lingering or working. It feels like a perfect location within easy reach of the Empire State Plaza, Cheesecake Machismo and Center Square.
CANNED COLD BREW + MEXICAN HOT CHOCOLATE
My interest was piqued by their cold brew lattes made—and canned—to order. Forget soggy paper cups. The slim clear cans with aluminum lids keep your drink perfectly sealed until you pop the tab. Station Six cold brew, brewed for 22-hours at room temperature using dark roast ground coffee from Capital City Coffee Roasters, is a smooth, intense but not bitter cold brew, added to your choice of oat, almond or cow’s milk with optional flavors (caramel, mocha, vanilla, Irish cream, pistachio.) While all lattes are available hot, I’ll be back for Cambron’s Mexican hot chocolate (chocolate caliente) made with traditional spiced chocolate tablillas, melted and frothed with milk in a clay jug.
What made Cambron pivot from architectural CAD-design to a coffee shop? “Well, my father used to have a restaurant in Mexico… and I worked in a coffee bar too where we would use a variety of different chocolate, spicy, sour for our drinks. I just thought it would be good.” - SDP