Hoboken, New Jersey

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Hoboken
Location of Hobokens in Hudson County
Location in New Jersey
Basic data
Foundation : 1849
State : United States
State : New Jersey
County : Hudson County
Coordinates : 40 ° 45 ′  N , 74 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′  N , 74 ° 2 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Residents : 50.005 (as of 2010)
Population density : 15,153 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 5.1 km 2  (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of
which 3.3 km 2  (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 9 m
Postal code : 07030
Area code : +1 201
FIPS : 34-32250
GNIS ID : 0885257
Website : www.hobokennj.org
Mayor : Dawn room
1.20.10HobokenCityHallByLuigiNovi.jpg
Hoboken City Hall

Hoboken [ həʊbəʊkən ] is a city in Hudson County . Hoboken is on the Hudson River across the street from Manhattan .

geography

According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of ​​5.1  km 2 , of which 3.3 km 2 is land and 1.8 km 2 (35.35%) is water.

history

Hoboken is located on a former island in what is now the Hudson River . The island was seasonally visited by a Native American tribe called Lenni Lenape as a camp before the settlers arrived , before they fell victim to war and displacement by the advancing Europeans in the 17th century. The indigenous people referred to this area as the "land of the tobacco pipe" because pipes were made from the soapstone at Castle Point (Hoboken). Slow development of the country began in 1609. At that time the British explored Henry Hudson the eponymous river Hudson .

Dutch settlers and subsequent residents connected the former island to the mainland near New Jersey . Hoboken is like New York (originally New Amsterdam ), Brooklyn (originally Breukelen ) and other cities in the area of ​​the New Netherlands colony founded in 1624 by the Dutch West Indies Company ( Dutch West India Company ), a Dutch foundation. It was named after the Flemish community of Hoboken near Antwerp, which is now a district of Antwerp. In 1626 the company bought the island of Manhattan, discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 ("Mana-hatta" in the native language) from Native Americans, and in the same year had the New Amsterdam trading post established on the southern tip of Manahatta. From here, further city foundations were deliberately operated by the Dutch-West Indian Society. In 1630, the first settlers came to the nearby country of the tobacco pipe. Their leader was the Dutch merchant Michael Pauw, who renamed the country Pavonia, a Latinized version of his name.

Most of the Dutch settlers were farmers and opened America's first brewery here in those early days.

The governor and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel John Stevens is responsible for Hoboken's economic rise into the industrial age . After he had Americanized Hobokens name in Hobuck , he not only had a river walk laid out along the Hudson, but also opened a restaurant and hotel next to Bad Sybil's Cave (the Sybillinian Grotto). He also laid the foundation stone for a large park, the Elysian Fields , which became the preferred destination for the Manhattan upper class. To expand traffic between Manhattan and Hoboken, Stevens opened America's first scheduled steamship service between Manhattan and Hoboken in 1811. He was so enthusiastic about steam technology that he had a locomotive imported from England . In 1825 this machine ran on a small circular track. With it began America's entry into the railroad industry.

In 1900 Hoboken had a population of 59,000 people, 20 percent of whom were Germans. The local economy was very much determined by Germans. At the end of the 19th century, Hoboken was the most important pier in New York Harbor for liner shipping with Europe. Norddeutscher Lloyd , Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (Hamburg-America Line, Hapag), Scandinavian America Line and Holland-America Line all called at the port, with the connections mainly used by immigrants from Europe.

In a major fire on June 30, 1900 , the piers of the NDL and the Scandinavian America Line, as well as three ships of the line were destroyed. 147 sailors and employees died on the NDL ships alone, the whole disaster probably claimed more than three hundred lives. Immediately after the fire, new, much larger buildings and additional landing stages for German ships were built. On the morning of August 7, 1905, another fire broke out, this time on board the Hopatcong ferry . This fire destroyed the old wooden buildings on the ferry pier and the train station. The large Lackawanna train station, which still exists today, as well as new arrival and departure buildings for the ferries were built for this reason and reopened on February 25, 1907. It was the fourth station at this point, and all of its predecessors had been destroyed by fire. In 1908, the tunnel, which was celebrated as a technical masterpiece and led here from Manhattan under the Hudson, also ended here. The station tower, which looks like an Italian church tower and was the height of a lighthouse, was demolished in 1948 after storm damage, but rebuilt in 2007 during renovation work on the station.

Demographics

As of the 2010 census, there are 50,005 people. In 2000 there were 19,418 households and 6,835 families in the city. The population density was 11,636.5 people per km 2 . 80.82% of the population are White, 4.26% African American , 0.16% Native American , 4.31% Asian , 0.05% Pacific Islander , 7.63% Other Ethnicity, and 2.78% Mixed Race . 20.18% are Latinos of various origins.

Of the 19,418 households, 11.4% have children under the age of 18. 23.8% of these are married couples living together, 9.0% are single mothers, 64.8% are not families, 41.8% are single households and 8.0% are people over 65. The average household size is 1 , 92, the average family size 2.73.

10.5% of the population are under 18 years old, 15.3% between 18 and 24, 51.7% between 25 and 44, 13.5% between 45 and 64, 9.0% older than 65. The average age is 30 years. The ratio of women to men is 100: 103.9, for people older than 18 the ratio is 100: 103.9.

The median household income was 62,550 USD , and the median income for a family 67,500 USD. Males have a median income of $ 54,870 versus $ 46,826 for females. The per capita income for the city is $ 43,195. 11.0% of the population and 10.0% of families live below the poverty line, of which 23.6% are children or adolescents under the age of 18 and 20.7% of people are over 65.

traffic

Rail transport

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The Hoboken Terminal is a hub for rail traffic between New Jersey and Manhattan . Subways operated by the Port Authority Trans-Hudson have been running to New York City since 1908 ( Hudson and Manhattan Railroad until the late 1950s ). In addition, the station is the end point of numerous local trains of the New Jersey Transit . On April 15, 2000, the first section of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail was opened in Jersey City; this light rail goes to Bayonne and Weehawken Township .

Accident train on October 1st, 2016

On September 29, 2016, during the morning rush hour, a local train of the Pascack Valley Line from Spring Valley pulled into the Hoboken Terminal with practically no brakes , broke through the buffer stop and only came to a stop on a wall. Part of the station roof collapsed. One person died and over 100 were injured.

shipping

Hoboken has two ports for ferry lines on the Hudson River . The ferries that run there regularly connect the place with Manhattan.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Famous residents

Web links

Commons : Hoboken (New Jersey)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hoboken Piers Headhouse, River Street at Hudson River, Hoboken ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 536 kB), Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. NJ-63 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lcweb2.loc.gov
  2. ↑ Maggie Blanck: Hoboken Pier Fire, June 30, 1900 , in the section with commentary by Larry Von Holland (English)
  3. ↑ NJ - Hoboken: Erie Lackawanna Terminal Clock Tower