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Bergen Hill is about 19 kilometers (12 miles) long and 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) wide, comprising a range of bluffs of Triassic diabase. It commences at Bergen Point and runs behind Jersey City and Hoboken to a point in Weehawken about opposite Thirty-fifth Street in New York City. Here it comes close to the Hudson River and continues north for some 29 kilometers (18 miles) to Piermont, being known as the Palisades.
Bergen Hill is the name used for lower Hudson Palisades where they emerge in Jersey City, New Jersey and are furthur inland than King's Bluff, the promontory in Weehawken where the cliffs along the Hudson River begin. Locally the The Divided Highway, connecting the Pulaski Skyway to the Holland Tunnel is considered its northern border (and Jersey City Heights and Weehawken Heights be atop the Palisades proper), though with transportation infrastructure and mineralogy the term is used more widely.
List of Cut, Tunnels, and Crossings
This list runs from south to north. The south end of the Palisades is subjective. Most rail infrastructure makes use of the term Bergen Hill.
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- Hudson-Bergen Light RailWest Side Branch
- Montgomery Street
- Newark Avenue
- Pennsylvania Railroad cut original alignment, now Norfolk Southern Railway)
- Pennsylvania Railroad Jersey City Branch cut (now Norfolk Southern Railway)Journal Square Transportation Center
- North Hudson County Railway streetcar line (gone)
- Erie Railroad cut (Bergen Arches, now abandoned)
- Long Dock Tunnel, (Bergen Tunnel January 28th, 1861)Erie Railroad (now Conrail)
- The Divided Highway
- Lackawanna Railroad tunnel (now New Jersey Transit)
- New York Avenue
- Hoboken Inclined Cable Railway (gone)
- Hoboken Wagon Elevator (gone)
Mountain Road
- Paterson Plank Road
- Holland Street
- 9th St/Congress St. Elevator on the HBLR
- 14th Street Viaduct
- North Hudson County Railway Hillside Line (gone)
- Weehawken Wagon Elevator (gone)
- Hackensack Plank Road
- Park Avenue
- Boulevard East
- future THE Tunnel
- North River Tunnels, now Amtrak and New Jersey Transit)[1]
- Lincoln Tunnel Approach and Helix
- Pershing Road[2]
- North Hudson County Railway streetcar line (gone)
- West Shore Railroad tunnel (now Hudson-Bergen Light Rail)
- Hillside Road
- Bulls Ferry Road
- Church Hill Road
- Gorge Road
- New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway tunnel (now abandoned)
- Edgewater Road
- New Jersey and Hudson Railway Hudson River Line (gone)
- Route 5
- River Road
- George Washington Bridge
- Palisade Avenue
- Henry Hudson Drive
New Jersey/New York state line
- Washington Springs Road
References
- ^ The final hole through took place with a 7:05 A.M. blast on April 11, 1908 supervised by Assistant Chief Engineer James Forgie; according to a New York Times article cited by Baer,
Christopher (March, 2005). "PRR Chronolgy 1908" (PDF). Retrieved 2009-03-16.
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Bergen Hill Raritan River Railroad station South Amboy
Bergen Hill Raritan River Railroad station South Amboy
webiste w/ fotos —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.83.130.160 (talk) 21:54, 11 November 2009 (UTC)