Ferries from Hoboken / NJ Transit Terminal

The ferry slips here are part of a railway station. Hoboken Terminal opened in 1907 as the Lackawanna Railroad's waterfront gateway to New York, and it was designed from the start to hand passengers straight from trains to boats. More than a century later that is still exactly what it does.

Everything under one roof

The terminal brings together NJ Transit commuter rail, the PATH rapid transit line, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, buses and the ferry slips. Very few transport interchanges in North America combine that many modes in one historic building.

For a ferry passenger the practical effect is that this is the easiest New Jersey terminal to reach without a car, and the only one where a train from further west lands you at the gangway.

Where the boats go

• Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan — 66 sailings in our timetable, about 10 minutes.
• Pier 11 / Wall St. — 14 sailings, around 15 minutes.
• Midtown / W. 39th St. — a handful at peak.

All are run by NY Waterway. The Brookfield Place service is the heavy one and behaves like a rail shuttle.

⚠ Hoboken has two ferry landings

This terminal is not the same as Hoboken 14th Street, a separate landing about a mile and a half north with its own services to Midtown and Brookfield Place.

Both are simply "Hoboken" in conversation. Check which one your ticket names before walking, because the two are a long way apart on foot.

The building itself

Copper-clad, with a Tiffany stained-glass ceiling in the waiting room and the ferry concourse restored alongside the train shed. It is worth arriving early for, which is not something that can be said of most commuter piers.

Timing

Sharply commuter-shaped: dense at weekday peaks, thin midday, minimal at weekends. The rail and PATH connections run far later than the boats, so the ferry is rarely the last option home.