Construction along a northward extension of the line known as the Hackensack and New York Extension Railroad under the leadership of David P. Patterson started in 1866.

Service to Hillsdale opened on March 4, 1870.

[3] The company entered receivership in 1878[4] and reorganized as the New Jersey and New York Railroad, extended into Rockland County, New York and leased by the Erie Railroad in 1896.

[2] The track right of way is now New Jersey Transit's Pascack Valley Line.

[5] This United States rail–related article is a stub.