An elevator is present to get people from Garfield Avenue to track level and the platforms are even with the train cars.

The station opened to the public on April 15, 2000 as part of the original operating segment of the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail.

[6][3] Service to Newark ended abruptly on February 3, 1946 when a steamship knocked two spans of the bridge over the Hackensack River into the water below.

[2] In early 2019, it was announced that the West Side Avenue, Martin Luther King Drive, and Garfield Avenue stations on the West Side Branch would close for nine months starting in June 2019 for repairs to a sewer line running along he right-of-way.

A decorative theme for the station is two dimensional "cut-outs" of adults and children, some of whom are playing.