 Though there were three other stations in the city — Prospect Street-Passaic and Passaic Park to the east, and Harrison Street to the west — the simply named Passaic station was the primary station for the city, located at grade in the busiest section of its main business street.Passaic Station was constructed in 1883 as the main station for Passaic.During the 1950s and 1960s, competing priorities from agencies around the cities of Paterson and Passaic were beginning to form.