Weehawken Port Imperial

Port Imperial
The Port Imperial Hudson–Bergen Light Rail platform, which also contains a pedestrian bridge to the Ferry Terminal to Midtown and Lower Manhattan
Location	Port Imperial Boulevard Weehawken, NJ
Coordinates	40°46′33″N 74°00′46″W / 40.7759°N 74.0129°W / 40.7759; -74.0129Coordinates: 40°46′33″N 74°00′46″W / 40.7759°N 74.0129°W / 40.7759; -74.0129
Owned by	New Jersey Transit
Line(s)	Hudson–Bergen Light Rail:   West Side–Tonnelle   Hoboken–Tonnelle NY Waterway: West Midtown Ferry Terminal Battery Park City Ferry Terminal Pier 11/Wall Street
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	NJT Bus: 23, 156, 158, 159
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	1
History
Opened	October 29, 2005
Electrified	750 V (DC) overhead catenary
Traffic
Passengers (2006)	76,440  0%
Services
Preceding station   Hudson–Bergen Light Rail   Following station Lincoln Harbor toward West Side Avenue West Side–Tonnelle Bergenline Avenue toward Tonnelle Avenue Lincoln Harbor toward Hoboken Hoboken–Tonnelle

Weehawken Port Imperial is an intermodal transit hub on the Weehawken, New Jersey waterfront of the Hudson River across from Midtown Manhattan served by New York Waterway ferries and buses, Hudson–Bergen Light Rail, and NJT buses. The district lies under and at the foot of Pershing Road, a thoroughfare which travels along the face of the Hudson Palisades, which rise to its west. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs along the shoreline and is abutted by recently constructed residential neighborboods, Lincoln Harbor to the south and Bulls Ferry to the north.

The North Hudson waterfront is located north of Weehawken Cove on a long narrow strip of land between the Hudson River and Hudson Palisades. On April 18, 1670 the 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. 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. Later called Slough's Meadow, the waterfront has in the last centuries been transformed from an tidal marsh to an extensive rail and shipping port and, since the 1980s, redeveloped for commercial, residential, recreational, and transportation uses. Many duels, including the nation's most famous between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804, took place on a site later obliterated by rail infrastructure of the West Shore Railroad (also used by (New York, Ontario and Western) and the Erie Railroad Erie's Pier D and Piershed is a remnant of the rail era listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1984.