Kearny Sub

Kearny Sub is an electrical substation in Town of Kearny, Hudson County, New Jersey. Kearny Sub is situated nearby to Chaplain Washington Bridge, as well as near Point-No-Point Bridge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Point-No-Point Bridge and Sawtooth Bridges.

Point-No-Point Bridge

Bridge

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Point-No-Point Bridge is a railroad bridge crossing the Passaic River between Newark and Kearny, New Jersey, United States, in the New Jersey Meadowlands. Point-No-Point Bridge is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Kearny Sub.

Sawtooth Bridges

Bridge

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The Sawtooth Bridges are a pair of railroad bridges on the Northeast Corridor known individually as Amtrak Bridge No. 7.80 and Amtrak Bridge No. 7.96. They are located in the Meadowlands in Kearny, New Jersey, between Newark Penn Station and Secaucus Junction at a stretch where the rights-of-way of Amtrak, NJ Transit, PATH, and Conrail converge and re-align. Sawtooth Bridges is situated 1,900 feet west of Kearny Sub.

Essex Generating Station

The Essex Generating Station is a peaking power plant on the banks of the Passaic River, three miles east of Downtown in Newark, New Jersey. The station was a major part of New Jersey’s energy infrastructure, transitioning from a coal-fired power plant to a modern peaking facility before closing in 2022. Essex Generating Station is situated 2,600 feet south of Kearny Sub.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harrison and Kearny.

Harrison

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Harrison is a town in the western part of Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the New York metropolitan area. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Newark, and is located 8 miles from New York City.

Kearny

Town

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Kearny is a town in the western part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a suburb of Newark. As of the 2020 United States census, the town's population was 41,999, an increase of 1,315 from the 2010 census count of 40,684, which in turn reflected an increase of 171 from the 40,513 counted in the 2000 census. Kearny is situated 2 miles northwest of Kearny Sub.