Raritan Bay, located at the southern portion of Lower New York Bay between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey, is part of the New York Bight. Raritan Bay is shown as the highlighted area south of Lower New York Bay and north of Monmouth County. The bay is bounded on the west by South Amboy, New Jersey, where the Camden and Amboy Railroad (C&A), the nation's first passenger railroad company, had its northern terminus; it connected New York harbor to