This is a panorama of the lower west side of Manhattan with the CRRNJ terminal building on the left. The terminal building is on Liberty Island which is in New Jersey. Immigrants would purchase their train tickets at Ellis Island, then board a ferry to the CRRNJ Terminal. Historically, the location where visitors now wait to board ferries to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, was known as the Immigrant waiting room. This area used to be within a building (the Ferry Shed) that was attached to the terminal. The immigrants would wait here for their trains, then proceed through the North Baggage Tunnel to their trains. Thus, the immigrants would avoid contact with the mass of commuters that used the terminal daily traveling to and from New York City.