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The New York and Greenwood Lake Railway owned a line between Croxton, Jersey City, New Jersey and Greenwood Lake, New York.
The railroad was formed by combining the Montclair Railway, from Montclair, New Jersey, to Jersey City, and the Montclair and Greenwood Lake Railroad, from Montclair to Greenwood Lake. The property was acquired directly in 1943 by the Erie Railroad, which merged with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1960, to create the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. It was founded by Julius Pratt, who invented the name Montclair for what was then West Bloomfield.[1]
Conrail operated commuter rail on the line from 1976 to 1982, when New Jersey Transit Rail Operations took over. The line south and east of Mountain View is presently operated as part of the Montclair-Boonton Line and runs now to Hoboken, with Midtown Direct service into New York Penn Station. Conrail continued to operate freight service on the line until 1999, when the Norfolk Southern Railway took over. The line north of Mountain View, to Greenwood Lake, has been abandoned in stages.
Three passenger stations (Arlington, Rowe Street and Benson Street) were abandoned when the Montclair Connection opened in 2002.