Southern Piers:

Southern Hoboken developed into a unique intermodal transit hub linking the city to the region and New York since the nineteenth century. Centered at the restored 1907 Lackawanna Terminal, now called the Hoboken Terminal, the waterfront has offered commuter train, light rail, ferry, bus, subway, and taxi service and helped make Hoboken one of the best U.S. cities for urban transportation. Ferries operated from southern Hoboken from the 1820s to 1967 and resumed in 1986. The large double-ended ferries used in the early 1900s could carry cars and trucks as well as passengers, while today’s smaller ferries serve commuters only. The Tubes, the subway beneath the Terminal, began as the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad in 1874 but did not open until 1908. In 1962, the Port of New York Authority took over the line and renamed it Port Authority Trans-Hudson, or PATH. In 1949, railroad, ferry, and streetcar terminals and yards dominated Hoboken at the south city line.

Hoboken, New Jersey · United States