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The Port of New York and New Jersey is the port district of the New York-Newark metropolitan area, [1] encompassing the region within approximately a 25-mile (40 km) radius of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
The New Jersey State Department of Tourism splits North Jersey into the urban Gateway Region and the more rural Skylands Region. Northern New Jersey is home to four of the largest cities of that state: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, and Elizabeth. The region is geographically diverse with wetlands, mountains, and valleys throughout the area.
Clifton is a city in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Criss-crossed by several major highways, the city is a regional commercial hub for North Jersey and is a bedroom suburb of New York City in the New York Metropolitan Area. [22]
New Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [23] A regional commercial hub for central New Jersey, the city is both a college town (the home of Rutgers University–New Brunswick, the state's largest university) and a commuter town for residents commuting to New York City within the New York metropolitan area. [24]
The five boroughs of New York City. New York City is located on the coast of the Northeastern United States at the mouth of the Hudson River in southeastern New York state. It is located in the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary, the centerpiece of which is the New York Harbor, whose deep waters and sheltered bays helped the city grow in significance as a trading city.
Manhattan (/ m æ n ˈ h æ t ən, m ə n-/ ⓘ man-HAT-ən, mən-) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York.
The Hudson Waterfront is an urban area of northeastern New Jersey along the lower reaches of the Hudson River, the Upper New York Bay and the Kill van Kull.Though the term can specifically mean the shoreline, it is often used to mean the contiguous urban area between the Bayonne Bridge and the George Washington Bridge that is approximately 19 miles (31 km) long. [1]
The Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company was incorporated in December 1906 to operate a passenger railroad system between New York and New Jersey via the Uptown and Downtown Tubes. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Downtown Tubes, located about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) south of the uptown pair, were well under construction by that time, [ 7 ] : 19 as 3,000 feet ...