Weehawken

Weehawken is a town of almost 18,000 people on the Hudson River in northeastern . Despite having a high population density and a location near 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 Space Shuttle Enterprise and USS Intrepid.

Aircraft
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is the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747.

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

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”
  • 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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