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Booklet: The Pennsylvania Tunnels and Terminals
This booklet, published in 1904 by King's Booklets (A Thousand and one World-wide subjects) describes the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnels and terminals in the New York area. In includes a photo of the Weehawken tunnel portal under…
Tags: Railroad, Transportation, Waterfront
Boulevard East exit from Route 495
9" x 11" black and white photograph of the Boulevard East exit from the helix, going west
Tags: Route 495, Transportation
Broadway, Union Hill - Flat Iron Building - Park Avenue, Weehawken
A nice hand colored photo postcard of the point where Broadway and Park Avenue cross. A cool old flivver, trolley tracks and people perambulating in the foreground.
Published by the Union News Company, New York.
Tags: Park Avenue, Streets, Transportation
Bus Entering the Lincoln Tunnel
Black and white photograph of a bus on its way from Weehawken to New York City. Based on the style of bus and the surrounding cars, this photo (taken by Charles Schneider) appears to come from the 1940s.
From the collection of the Weehawken…
Tags: Lincoln Tunnel, Transportation
Bus on Pershing Road, Weehawken, NJ
Black and white photograph of a bus on Pershing Road enroute to the ferry terminal. The type of bus shown was in service around 1940. The Grauert Causeway and Soldiers and Sailors monument on Boulevard East are seen in the background. Photo by…
Tags: Streets, Transportation, Waterfront
Bus Schedule - #44 Public Service Bus - 1955
This bus schedule is for the number 44 Public Service bus line which ran from Journal Square in Jersey City through Weehawken and up to North Bergen. Today's equivalent bus line is the NJ Transit 84/86.
Tags: Transportation
Bus Time Table - Weehawken to New York
A 1939 time table for bus service from Weehawken and Union City and other points in NJ to New Yorks Astor Terminal at 220 West 45th Street.
Tags: Transportation
Charters of the Weehawken Ferry Company and Weehawken and Ramapo Plank Road Company
This 1853 document contains the charters of these two companies as well as a prospectus for investors. It is 19 pages long.
Tags: Ferries, Transportation
Chiquita Bananas Travel NYC
Article from the April, 1953 issue of the New York Central Railroad Headlight Newsletter featuring the Banana Building on the Weehawken waterfront... Text of the article: BIG BUNCHES OF BANANAS, CALLED STEMS: ARE STACKED GENTLY IN REFRIGERATOR CARS…
Tags: Railroad, Transportation, Waterfront
Clipping - As Time Marches On With Tunnel
Newspaper clipping from the Hudson Dispatch, Union City, N.J., THursday, August 19th, 1937. This includes a picture of the construction in progress as well as an article entitled 'Second Tunnel Bore Through.'
This item is in the collection of the…
Tags: Lincoln Tunnel, Transportation
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Trolley Car Descending the Palisades to 130th Street Ferry, Edgewater, NJ
Black and white undivided photo postcard, in Edgewater, not Weehawken, but a close by look at the trolley tracks along the Palisades. Not postmarked,…