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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 edit

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.

Hudson-Bergen Light Rail West 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. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |author= at position 7 (help)
^ Weehawken Time Machine

Bergen Hill Raritan River Railroad station South Amboy edit

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[baer-1] 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. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |author= at position 7 (help)

[2] Weehawken Time Machine

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