[4][5] It has subsequently become Grand Street and Garfield Avenue in Jersey City and Broadway in Bayonne.

[7] As the name suggests, wooden boards were laid on a roadbed in order to prevent horse-drawn carriages and wagons from sinking into softer ground on the portions of the road.

It then ran parallel to the Morris Canal through Greenville to Curries Woods.,[8] passing through Bayview – New York Bay Cemetery.

Crossing the canal at Pamrapo, it proceeded south into Saltersville and Centerville ending at Bergen Point.

Transfer to ferries to Elizabethport across Newark Bay and to Staten Island across Kill van Kull were possible.