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Geography[edit] Weehawken is part of the New York metropolitan area. Situated on the western shore of the Hudson River, along the southern end of the New Jersey Palisades across from Midtown Manhattan, it is the western terminus of the Lincoln Tunnel. [43]
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Port Imperial is a community centered around an intermodal transit hub on the Weehawken, New Jersey, waterfront of the Hudson River across from Midtown Manhattan, served by New York Waterway ferries and buses, Hudson–Bergen Light Rail, and NJT buses.
- The first documented European discovery of Weehawken Cove was on October 2, 1609, when Henry Hudson’s boat the Half Moon anchored just two blocks north of Hoboken’s 14th Street {something to think about the next time you’re sipping a margarita at Pier 13}!
- Hoboken and Weehawken have traded land many times over the past four centuries and in fact, some of Hoboken’s most famous landmarks {particularly most of North Hoboken’s waterfront and stretching all the way to Stevens} were actually once Weehawken territory.
- The red brick water tower on Park Avenue is one of Weehawken’s defining features — it was built in 1883 Frederick Clarke Withers and modeled after the PIazzo Vecchio in Florence.
- The Eldorado Amusement Park was a 25-acre pleasure garden that spanned Boulevard East enticed visitors from Manhattan. Billed as “The Most Beautiful Amusement Resort in the World”, Eldorado featured a cliffside castle, landscaped gardens, a 30-foot fountain, boxing matches, vaudeville performances, sporting events and an amphitheater that seated up to 15,000 people and featured a day-time circus and nighttime world-class theater productions and was visited in droves by Manhattan-ites looking to cross the river for an escape from the sweltering city summers.
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Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the Hudson Waterfront and Hudson Palisades overlooking the Hudson River.
Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the township's population was 17,197.
The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.11. About 20.3% of the county's population was under age 18, 7.7% was from age 18 to 24, 47.6% was from age 15 to 44, and 12.2% was age 65 or older. The median age was 35.5 years. The gender makeup of the city was 49.76% male and 50.23% female.
Weehawken is a town of 15,000 people (2019) on the Hudson River in northeastern New Jersey. Despite having a high population density and a location at the heart of the New York metroplitan area, Weehawken has a small-town feel, comprised of close knit neighborhoods.
