

Sporadic ferry service began and in 1700 a royal patent was given by Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont which led to the naming of Weehawken Street at the landing across the river in today's West Village. On Apthe government of the Province of New Jersey confirmed a grant to Maryn Adriaensen for a parcel of land called Wiehacken in the jurisdiction of Bergen on Hobooken Creek, 50 morgen Dutch measure originally given on May 11, 1647. The North Hudson waterfront is located north of Weehawken Cove on a long narrow strip of land between the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades. Weehawken Terminal and Pershing Road circa 1906 Early ferries and railroads
