City (Central Railroad of New Jersey) was restored and is now part of Liberty State Park. In October 1956, four years before its merger with the DL&W to form the Erie Lackawanna Railway, the Erie Railroad began to shift its trains from Pavonia Terminal to Hoboken. The Erie moved its Northern Branch trains to Hoboken in 1959. In October 1965, on former Erie routes, there were five weekday trains run to Midvale, three to Nyack on the Northern Branch, three to Waldwick via the Newark Branch, two to Essex Fells on its Caldwell Branch, two to Carlton Hill, and one to Newton. All those trains were dropped in 1966. Ferry service from the terminal to lower Manhattan ended on November 22, 1967, due to declining ridership and revenues. It resumed in 1989 on the south side of the terminal and moved back to the restored ferry slips inside the historic terminal on December 7, 2011. In 1973 the terminal building was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.. In 1990, the New Jersey Historic Preservation Bond Program gave a grant of $400,000 towards repairs and restoration of the Terminal. In 1991, another grant of $300,000 was given. The money was used towards repairing the ferry terminal's roof, and clerestory. 21st century On August 14, 2003, amid the Northeast blackout of 2003 PATH and NJ Transit Rail Operations were unable to operate anywhere including the Hoboken Terminal. Commuters from New Jersey used the NY Waterway ferry to the Hoboken Terminal as an alternative, and passengers said it was so packed it caused concern. Operations of PATH and NJ Transit Trains resumed the morning of the August 15 with the use of diesel trains. A renovation that lasted from 2005 to 2009 demolished and rebuilt walls to resemble their original appearance; the terminal's clock tower was rebuilt as well along with the original neon-lit Lackawanna sign. The station was badly damaged during Hurricane Sandy on October 29, 2012. A storm surge inundated the facility; the water rose as high as in the PATH tunnels. Daytime PATH service to midtown Manhattan was restored on December 19. The waiting room reopened in January 2013, while extensive repairs were still in progress. Pre-Sandy service patterns were gradually restored by March 1, 2013. As of 2017, the station was the ninth-busiest railway station in North America. On