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An 1841 map of parts of Hudson and New York counties and the Hudson River. The township's written history began in 1609, when Henry Hudson, on his third voyage to the New World, sailed down what was later named the North River on the Half Moon and anchored in Weehawken Cove. [25]
The North Hudson waterfront is located north of Weehawken Cove on a long narrow strip of land between the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades.On April 18, 1670 the government of the Province of New Jersey confirmed a grant to Maryn Adriaensen for a parcel of land called Wiehacken in the jurisdiction of Bergen on Hobooken Creek, 50 morgen Dutch measure originally given on May 11, 1647.
An 1841 map showing the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company holdings. Weehawken Heights was the site of Mountain Pavilion (center). Shippen Street was named after William W. Shippen, who owned large properties in Weehawken Heights [3] next to those in West Hoboken belonging to the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, of which he was the president for 21 years.
View facing south from Columbia Terrace in Weehawken. Much of the overlook is lined with trap rock quarried from the cliffs. Boulevard East (officially John F. Kennedy Boulevard East, and sometimes referred to as JFK Boulevard East) is a two-way, mostly two lane, scenic [1] [2] county road [3] in the municipalities of Weehawken, West New York, Guttenberg and North Bergen in North Hudson, New ...
Pershing Road is a road located entirely in Weehawken, New Jersey that travels for 0.42 miles (0.68 km) on the Hudson Palisades between Boulevard East and Weehawken Port Imperial, and carries the designation Hudson County Route 682.
The Lincoln Tunnel is an approximately 1.5-mile-long (2.4 km) tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey, to the west with Midtown Manhattan in New York City to the east.
Hudson County, New Jersey, is the sixth-most densely populated county in the U.S. [7] and has one of America's highest percentages of public transportation use. [8] [9] During the 1980s and early 1990s, planners and government officials realized that alternative transportation systems needed to be put in place to relieve increasing congestion [10] along the Hudson Waterfront, particularly in ...
An 1841 map shows the area as being part of Bergen and still very rural. By 1947, one estimate put the population of North Hudson at 175,000. [34]According to the United States Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program, as of July 2022, Hudson County had a population of 703,366, [35] of which 206,243 were in North Hudson: Guttenberg (11,446), North Bergen (60,235), Union City (65,366 ...