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New Jersey Public Transportation Corporation - The Way To Go. Lot Location: Grand Ave & Kinderkamack Rd Owner: NJ TRANSIT Contact: River Edge Borough Phone: 800-523-1026
In July 1888, the County of Bergen awarded contracts for erecting an iron bridge at New Bridge to the King Iron Company for a low bid of $3,990 and for the stonework to Joseph W. Stagg for $3,994. In August 1888, Joseph Stagg removed the old bridge and began laying stone for the abutments. The new iron swing bridge was opened on Monday ...
History. According to historian Kevin Wright, the extant iron swing bridge at New Bridge Landing occupies the site of a series of wooden drawbridges that have spanned the narrows of the Hackensack River at New Bridge since 1745. Until 1790, this was the first river crossing above Newark Bay and so carried overland traffic between Manhattan and ...
- 0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
- Stagg, Joseph W.; King Bridge Company
- 1888
New Bridge prospered for more than a century after the war as a commercial crossroads, situated where a major overland thoroughfare of travel and trade intersected the head of sloop navigation on the Hackensack River. The extant iron swing bridge, manually operated, was erected in 1889 to speed the passage of schooners and testifies to the ...
When new four-lane bridge plans threatened to obliterate the 1889 swing bridge, BCHS was able to get the bridge diverted to the north but lost acreage in the process. The Demarest House Museum and the Campbell-Christie House were moved onto BCHS property in 1955 and 1977, respectively.
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New Bridge Landing, signed as New Bridge Landing at River Edge, is an active commuter railroad station in the borough of River Edge, Bergen County, New Jersey.Located at the junction of Kinderkamack Road (County Route 503) and Grand Avenue (County Route S-49) and next to Route 4, the station is serviced by Pascack Valley Line trains running between Hoboken Terminal in Hoboken and Spring Valley ...
The historic New Bridge Landing is just up the road with a museum and parks along the Hackensack River. I come back to the area just for the history, but I'll get on at the previous or next train station from here on out.
- River Edge, NJ 07661
