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Essex Street in Paulus Hook in April 2006. Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located one mile (1.5 kilometres) across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land."
Grove Street; Hamilton Park; Harsimus; Boyle Plaza; Van Vorst Park; The Village; West End (historic) Hudson Waterfront [2] Exchange Place / Colgate Center; Harborside Financial Center; Newport; Paulus Hook; Powerhouse Arts District, formerly known as "WALDO" Greenville. Curries Woods; Port Liberte; Country Village; Claremont; Journal Square ...
The Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road was a road originally built in the 19th century in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States which ran between Paulus Hook and Bergen Point. The company that built the road received a charter on March 6, 1850 [1] [2] [3] to improve one that had been built in the 18th century.
Map of Jersey City, New Jersey, 1848. 1802 - Population of Paulus Hook: 13. [1] 1804 Land bought from Cornelius Van Vorst by the Associates of the Jersey Company. [2] Streets of the Hook laid out. [1] [3] [4] 1812 - Steam ferry begins operating. [3] 1820 - "City of Jersey" incorporated in Bergen Township. [5] 1824 - Jersey Glass Company ...
Map of New Netherland by Nicolaes Visscher ... Paulus Hook, neighborhood in Jersey City; Pavonia Terminal, Jersey City, New Jersey ... Bergen Street (IND Culver Line)
1847 map of Paulus Hook and the Jersey City Ferry's route. Note the historic name of Pavonia. In 1812, Robert Fulton began steam ferry service via the "The Jersey" between Paulus Hook and Manhattan eight years after building a shipyard at Greene and Morgan Streets.
Van Vorst Park is a neighborhood in the Historic Downtown of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, centered on a park sharing the same name. The neighborhood is located west of Paulus Hook and Marin Boulevard, north of Grand Street, east of the Turnpike Extension, and south of The Village and Christopher Columbus Drive. Much of it is included ...
A map showing the Jersey City Ferry's terminal at Cortlandt Street, 1857. As early as July 1764 [1]: 243–246 a ferry began operating from Paulus Hook to Mesier's dock which was located at the foot of Courtland Street (where Cortlandt Street Ferry Depot would be built).