Constable Hook also called Constable's Hook, is a short cape located on the north side of the outlet of Kill van Kull into Upper New York Bay (40°39′28″N 74°05′58″W / 40.65778°N 74.09944°W / 40.65778; -74.09944Coordinates: 40°39′28″N 74°05′58″W / 40.65778°N 74.09944°W / 40.65778; -74.09944). It forms the eastmost extent of the industrial Port Johnson in southeast Bayonne. Historically the term may be used more broadly, as synonymous with Bergen Point such as when it defined the southern extent of Bergen Township in 1693.
Site of a Standard Oil fire of July 1900, southern Constable Hook between Hook Road and Kill Van Kull still has oil docks and storage tanks including those of Exxon. Most of eastern Constable Hook was the 20th century Bayonne city dump, and now belongs to the Bayonne Golf Club, including a recreated lighthouse on the highest hill on the cape, serving as its clubhouse. The Robbins Reef Light actually serves to guide harbor traffic. The north end has South Cove Commons, a late 20th century shopping mall on North Hook Road, and a public shoreside nature walk east of there, affording views of tidal mudflats, the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne, and New York Harbor.
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