[1] The complex contained five ferry slips, sixteen passenger train tracks, car float facilities, and extensive yards.

[11] They traveled inland and north along the Palisade ridge between the competing Erie Railroad Northern Branch and Pascack Valley Line.

It had branch lines to Scranton, Pennsylvania and to Kingston; Port Jervis; Delhi; Utica and Rome in New York.

For a brief period in the 1890s the terminal was also served by a massive elevator structure which transported passengers to a trestle where they could board additional streetcars.

[15][16] The Weehawken waterfront is located north of Weehawken Cove on a long narrow strip of land between the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades that, in the last centuries, has been transformed from an estuary flood zone once called Slough's Meadow[17] to an extensive rail and shipping port.

The United Fruit Company once maintained the largest banana warehouse in the USA nearby, which has since been refurbished as commercial space.

[18] The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a partially-completed promenade along the bulkhead that was created as part of the redevelopment of the area.