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A 2016 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers map showing New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary's drainage divide and drainage basin Harrisse/LOC copy of the Manatus Map of 1639 An 1866 map of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary A 2011 NASA image of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary Population density and elevation above sea level in the New York City metropolitan area as of 2010 An aerial view of ...
Laurence Harbor is the easternmost community in Middlesex County and occupies the northeast corner of Old Bridge Township. It is bordered to the north by Raritan Bay; to the northwest by Cheesequake Creek, across which is the neighborhood of Morgan within the borough of Sayreville; to the southwest by the Garden State Parkway; and to the southeast by the communities of Cliffwood and Cliffwood ...
Located in Laurence Harbor is the Old Bridge Waterfront Park, a boardwalk where the Superfund site is located. [2] The cause of the Superfund site is a lead smelting company, National Lead Company, which currently goes by the name NL Industries. NL Industries specializes in lead-based "quality-of-life" products such as paint and metal bearings ...
Bald eagle (Halieeatus leucocephalus) - Has been seen up the Hudson River every winter consistently for well over a decade, feeding on a wide variety of both freshwater and saltwater fish. Has also been seen using the New Jersey Palisades and piers near the Harlem River as a perch from which to swoop down and grab its quarry in the estuary ...
The New Jersey Transit Railroad no longer has a station in Laurence Harbor. It had a Morgan station during most of the 1st half of the 20th century, located right across Cheesequake Creek, sometimes referred to locally as "The Front", from Laurence Harbor, dividing the community into eastern and western sections.
Geologists assert that the lower Raritan provided the course of the mouth of the Hudson River [2] approximately 6,000 years ago. Following the end of the last ice age, the Narrows had not yet been formed and the Hudson flowed along the Watchung Mountains to present-day Bound Brook, then followed the course of the Raritan eastward into Lower New York Bay.
Roughly the northeastern portion of the Bay from the Narrows to Sandy Hook is known as the Lower Bay (named in relation to the neighboring Upper New York Bay); roughly the western portion of the Bay (including the portion at the mouth of New Jersey's Raritan River) is called Raritan Bay; and roughly the southeastern portion of the Bay (that is ...
The Raritan Bayshore is a region in central sections in the state of New Jersey.It is the area around Raritan Bay from The Amboys to Sandy Hook, in Middlesex and Monmouth counties, including the towns of Perth Amboy, South Amboy, Sayreville, Old Bridge, Matawan, Aberdeen, Keyport, Union Beach, Hazlet, Keansburg, Middletown, Atlantic Highlands, and Highlands.