New Durham, North Bergen
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Church in New Durham
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 New Durham, North Bergen
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| Coordinates: 40°47′05″N 74°01′59″W / 40.78472°N 74.03306°WCoordinates: 40°47′05″N 74°01′59″W / 40.78472°N 74.03306°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Hudson |
| Township | North Bergen |
| Elevation | 23 ft (7 m) |
| Area code(s) | 201 |
| GNIS feature ID | 878732 |
New Durham is an unincorporated community and neighborhood located within North Bergen Township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. It is located near the foot of Union Turnpike and Bergen Turnpike, and south of the Tonnelle Avenue Station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail. It is one of the few residential areas along the otherwise industrial/commercial Tonnelle Ave, and site of one the town's main offices.
The area was the site of the colonial American community centered on the Three Pigeons when most of North Hudson was called Bergen Woods, a name recalled in Bergenwood Section on the steep slopes of the west side of the Hudson Palisades. Bergen Turnpike was one of the plank roads Hackensack Plank Road, crossing the Bergen Hill and the Hackensack Meadows that joined the village at Bergen Square with that at Hackenack that had been made the county seat of then much larger Bergen County in 1710. A congregation, established in the 1800s, still uses the name for their church.
New Durham was station stop on New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway's route into Pavonia Terminal, just north of the Susquehanna Transfer.
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