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Weehawken

Weehawken is a town of 15,000 people on the Hudson River in northeastern . Despite having a high population density and a location at the heart of the , Weehawken has a small-town feel, comprised of close knit neighborhoods.
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  • Type: Town with 12,600 residents
  • Description: township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States
  • Also known as: “Weahawk”, “Weehawken, New Jersey”, “Weehawken, NJ”, and “Wiehachen”
  • Postal code: 07086
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include USS Intrepid and Intrepid Museum.

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, also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. She is the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name.

Museum
The is a military and maritime history museum in , United States. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street, along the , in the neighborhood on the West Side of .

Library
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The is the free public library of Weehawken, New Jersey. The library has a collection of about 43,000 volumes and circulates 40,604 items annually.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Union City and Chelsea.

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is a city in , . is a small city, roughly 1.283 square miles. It is bordered by Weehawken to the east, to the south, North Bergen to the west and north, and West New York to the north.

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Sitting on the southwest side of Midtown , has a huge concentration of art galleries and is a popular dining and nightlife district. The area along 8th Avenue is the center of gay social life in Manhattan.

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is a small city on the Hudson River in northeastern . Once known only as the birthplace of baseball and crooner Frank Sinatra and the site of Stevens Institute of Technology, has become a party town, rich in bars and clubs, and a bedroom community for young, mostly twenty-something professionals who work across the river in …

Weehawken

Latitude
40.7695° or 40° 46′ 10″ north
Longitude
-74.0204° or 74° 1′ 14″ west
Population
12,600
Elevation
164 feet (50 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US WJQ
Open location code
87G7QX9H+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158827461
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5106184
Wiki­data ID
Q176410
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Welsh—“Weehawken” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Weehawken”
  • Cebuano: “Weehawken”
  • Chinese: “威活肯”
  • Chinese: “威霍肯”
  • Czech: “Weehawken”
  • Dagbani: “Weehawken”
  • Danish: “Weehawken”
  • Dutch: “Weehawken”
  • Finnish: “Weehawken”
  • French: “Weehawken”
  • Galician: “Weehawken”
  • German: “Weehawken”
  • Haitian: “Weehawken, New Jersey”
  • Haitian: “Weehawken”
  • Hebrew: “וויהוקן”
  • Italian: “Weehawken”
  • Japanese: “ウィーホーケン”
  • Japanese: “ウィホーケン”
  • Luxembourgish: “Weehawken”
  • Mazanderani: “ویهاوکن (نیوجرسی)”
  • Mazanderani: “ویهاوکن”
  • Northern Frisian: “Weehawken”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Weehawken”
  • Norwegian: “Weehawken”
  • Persian: “ویهاکن، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “ویهاوکن، نیوجرسی”
  • Persian: “ویهاوکن”
  • Portuguese: “Weehawken”
  • Russian: “Уихокен”
  • Silesian: “Weehawken”
  • Slovak: “Weehawken”
  • Slovenian: “Weehawken”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویهاوکن، نیوجرسی”
  • Spanish: “Weehawken (Nueva Jersey)”
  • Spanish: “Weehawken”
  • Swahili: “Weehawken, New Jersey”
  • Swahili: “Weehawken”
  • Swedish: “Weehawken”
  • Tamil: “வீகோவ்கென், நியூ செர்சி”
  • Tamil: “வீகோவ்கென்”
  • Turkish: “Weehawken, New Jersey”
  • Turkish: “Weehawken”
  • Ukrainian: “Вігокен”
  • Urdu: “ویهاوکن، نیو جرسی”
  • Urdu: “ویهاوکن”
  • Welsh: “Weehawken, New Jersey”
  • Welsh: “Weehawken”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Weehawken”. Photo: vbif333, CC BY 3.0.