Sounds like you are familiar with the system. I am wondering - I heard about many suspended lines - do they all come into this terminal?
Several train lines terminate at the Hoboken station.
Yes. Quite a few lines. However, Secaucus, the stop just before Hoboken, connects with lines in Penn Station. I think Broad Street in Newark has the other lines covered as well. PATH service to Hoboken will be out for a while I would imagine.
Yeah, when I worked in Jersey City, I used to walk to Hoboken on my lunch hour using the walkway along the Hudson - a very nice walk.
You came eventually to the Light Rail station, and then the adjoining commuter train station. It is very simple, just a roofed-over area with steel girders and about twenty tracks. It serves a number of commuter lines coming from various directions.
The station had a lot of damage from Sandy, and the fancy building and stores are still being redone. I think the old 19th-century waiting room is still accessible.
The PATH station is to the north, and there are several entrances. Once when the 33rd to Journal Square line failed, I had to hike to Hoboken and take the Hoboken PATH train to get home. I think there is an entrance immediately adjoining the tracks that had to be shut down, but since the PATH is well underground, it should not be affected - although with the PA and NJT, you never know.