Bergen Point

Bergen Point
Unincorporated community
Southwestern tip of Bergen Point
Bergen Point Bergen Point in Hudson County in New Jersey
Coordinates: 40°38′51″N 74°08′29″W
Country	United States
State	New Jersey
County	Hudson
City	Bayonne
Elevation [1]	7 ft (2 m)
Area code	201
GNIS feature ID	874681[1]

Bergen Point is a point of land that lends its name to the adjacent neighborhood in Bayonne in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.[2] The point is located on the north side of Kill van Kull at Newark Bay. It is the section of the city closest to the Bayonne Bridge.[3] Historically the term has been used more broadly as synonymous with Constable Hook, from which it is geographically separated at Port Johnson.

History

The area was connected to Staten Island with a ferry as early as the late 17th century, and was later developed as a resort.[4][5] In the late 18th century it became more prominent as a ferry landing for travelers between New York City and Philadelphia.[6] An 1837 US government coastal survey map identifies it as Vanhorn Point,[7] reflecting the name of a Dutch family that occupied the area just to the north called Pamrapo (among many other spellings, roughly today's Curries Woods neighborhood in Greenville) from the mid-17th century. The Bergen Point Lighthouse, built offshore in 1849, was demolished and replaced with a skeletal tower in the mid 20th century.[8] A charter was granted for the construction of The Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank Road in 1851.[9]

Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine announced on May 6, 2006, that funding was in place to extend the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system to Eighth Street. Work was completed and the station opened in January 2011.[10]

A large portion of the point was once site of a Texaco plant, which was cleared and is slated to become a residential and recreational area along Newark Bay and Kill Van Kull.[11] Other former industrial sites are slated for mixed-use development.[12][13] In 2022, the construction of a major studio at was announced. Called 1888 Studios, it will be the largest in New Jersey.[14][15]

The renovated Collins Park and walkways along the new developments are part of the Hackensack RiverWalk.

Gallery

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  The Latourette House in Bergen Point was the birthplace of Samuel Francis Du Pont[16]
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  Bergen Point, 1974
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  The point lends its name to the neighborhood

See also

• Bergen Neck
• Hackensack RiverWalk
• Geography of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary
• Port of New York and New Jersey

References

1. "Bergen Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Locality Search Archived July 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, State of New Jersey. Accessed February 7, 2015.
3. Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-0-88097-763-0.
4. Bergen Point^[permanent dead link‍]
5. "Hotel Latourette: The Most Fashionable Resort in the Suburban District of New York". Hagley. February 6, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
6. Paulus Hook Ferry
7. NOAA Coastal Survey file T18.jpg, available at [1] and attached to Wikipedia article on Curries Woods.
8. Bergen Point Lighthouse, 1849-1949, New Jersey Lighthouse Society.
9. Laws of the State of New Jersey, 1811, pp. 337–340
10. Frassinelli, Mike. "NJ Transit opens Bayonne 8th Street Station, extending Hudson-Bergen Light Rail service", The Star-Ledger, January 31, 2011. Accessed August 25, 2013.
11. 1,200 housing units, recreation facilities planned for former Texaco site in Bayonne Jersey Journal, Sept 2015
12. "Eyesores no more?". November 26, 2020.
13. "Public hearing for Bayview development slated for October". September 15, 2021.
14. "Bayonne Planning Board approves 1888 Studios at former Texaco site". March 31, 2022.
15. "Renderings Revealed for NJ's Largest Film Production Complex in Bayonne". March 25, 2022.
16. "Part of What the World Did not Know Until Now" (PDF). Bayonne Public Library. November 19, 1946.

External links

• Bergen Point West Reach data station ID 8519483 Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, NOAA.
• Bayonne Constable Hook Cemetery.