Moored in 1971 at Edgewater, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, the ship was operated as a floating restaurant from 1975 to 2007.

[5] Binghamton was built for the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Hoboken Ferry Company to carry 986 passengers and their vehicles.

Accordingly, a number of independent and railroad-affiliated ferry companies provided passenger and light freight service across the harbor.

Four years later, in 1811, John Stevens inaugurated what is thought to be the world's first steam ferry service on the Hudson River between Hoboken and Manhattan with the vessel Juliana.

These vessels took their names from principal stations on the DL&W RR's main line from Hoboken, New Jersey to Buffalo, New York.

The Binghamton was completed a month later and left the Newport News yard on March 25 for the trip to Hoboken, New Jersey.

[citation needed] As alternate methods of travel across the Harbor were implemented, ferry transport diminished.

These services are maintained by small, single-ended diesel-powered pedestrian ferries that carry on the tradition of their steam-powered predecessors.

[citation needed] The Binghamton was acquired in 1969 by Edward Russo, an Edgewater, NJ contractor, for conversion into a restaurant.

In 1997 the vessel made headlines when its owner, tycoon and former New Jersey Assembly Speaker Nelson Gross, was found murdered in Manhattan.

[citation needed] The ferry suffered a fire on Sunday, May 19, 2013, that was investigated by the Edgewater Police and the Bergen County arson squad.

He further stated that he was closing on a deal to have a subtenant demolish and remove the ferry from the site, with plans to open a restaurant on a barge at that location.