The Hudson Waterfront is in 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 often used to mean the contiguous urban area between the Bayonne Bridge and the George Washington Bridge that is approximately 19 miles (31 km). The municaplities, in Hudson and Bergen Counties, are Bayonne, Jersey City, Hoboken, Union City, Weehawken, West New York, Guttenberg, North Bergen, Fairview. Cliffside Park, Edgewater, and Fort Lee. To the east lie the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, to the south Staten Island, to the west Newark Bay and the New Jersey Meadowlands, and to the north Palisades Interstate Park. Historically the region has been known as Bergen Neck, the lower peninsula, and Bergen Hill, lower Hudson Palisades.
| Hudson Waterfront | |
|---|---|
| Counties | Hudson and Bergen |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | approx 620,000 |
| Time zone | Eastern (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (UTC-4) |
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“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
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