[7] By March 1872, the line had been extended west through Maywood Paterson, Wortendyke, and Butler to Newfoundland.

In 1898, the NYSW became a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad, and made use of Erie's Pavonia Terminal[8] and the Pavonia Ferry or to Susquehanna Transfer, which provided transfer to buses through the Lincoln Tunnel to the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

The Passaic–Bergen–Hudson Transit Project is a project by New Jersey Transit (NJT) to reintroduce passenger service on a portion of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway (NYSW) right-of-way in Passaic, Bergen and Hudson counties using newly built, FRA-compliant diesel multiple unit rail cars.

A potential station at this location, close to Hackensack Bus Terminal, would be called Downtown–River Street.

[13] While outside of the scope of the project the railroad and the city of Hackensack replaced a rail trestle close to the proposed station in 2013 with a contingency for a future additional track and passenger platform.