Tag: Weehawken
Weehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 12,554.
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 location of the western terminus of the Lincoln Tunnel. Weehawken is one of the towns that comprise North Hudson, sometimes called NoHu in the artistic community.
Weehawken is located at 40°46′08″N 74°00′56″W / 40.768903°N 74.015427°W / 40.768903; -74.015427 (40.768903,-74.015427). According to the United States Census Bureau, the township had a total area of 1.477 square miles (3.826 km), of which, 0.796 square miles (2.063 km) of it is land and 0.681 square miles (1.764 km) of it (46.10%) is water.
As the emergent Palisades define Weehawken’s natural topography, so too the Lincoln Tunnel (which cuts the town in half) looms as an inescapable man…
