List of bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey

This is a list of vehicular and rail bridges, tunnels, and cuts in Hudson County, New Jersey. Located in the northeastern part of New Jersey Hudson lies at the heart of the Port of New York and New Jersey and is a major crossroads of the New York Metropolitan area and Northeast Megalopolis. Located on two peninsulas, formerly known as Bergen Neck and New Barbadoes Neck, it has extensive waterfront along the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, Kill van Kull, Newark Bay and the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers. The main part of Hudson lies on Bergen Hill, the southern emergence of the Hudson Palisades, starting at sea level at Bergen Point and rising to 260 feet travelling through Bayonne, Jersey City and North Hudson. Secaucus and most of West Hudson are part of the New Jersey Meadowlands. Listings are generally from south to north.

Hudson County, on left, has many hills and miles of waterfront

Bayonne Bridge before deck raising

Hudson River

Uptown Hudson Tubes include a flying junction

Lincoln Tunnel comprises three tubes

Crossing	Carries	Location	Coordinates
Downtown Hudson Tubes	Port Authority Trans-Hudson	Jersey City and World Trade Center	40.7151°N 74.0244°W
Holland Tunnel	I-78 NJ 139	Jersey City and Lower Manhattan	40°43′39″N 74°01′16″W
Uptown Hudson Tubes	Port Authority Trans-Hudson	Jersey City and Manhattan
Gateway Tunnel (proposed)	Amtrak New Jersey Transit	North Bergen and Midtown Manhattan
THE Tunnel (project cancelled)	New Jersey Transit	Weehawken and Midtown Manhattan connecting Secaucus Junction and Penn Station
North River Tunnels	Amtrak New Jersey Transit	Weehawken and Midtown Manhattan	40°45′32″N 74°00′46″W
Lincoln Tunnel	NJ 495	Weehawken and Midtown Manhattan	40°45′47″N 74°00′36″W
The next crossing to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County
George Washington Bridge	I-95 New Jersey Turnpike US Route 1 US 9 US 46	Fort Lee and Upper Manhattan	40°51′05″N 73°57′09″W

Kill van Kull and Newark Bay

CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge was dismantled in the 1980s

Crossing	Carries	Location	Coordinates
Bayonne Bridge	NJ 440 NY 440	Bayonne - Staten Island
CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge (defunct)	Central Railroad of New Jersey	Bayonne - Elizabethport	40.6545°N 74.15°W
Newark Bay Bridge	I-78 New Jersey Turnpike	Bayonne - Newark
Upper Bay Bridge	CSX Transportation Norfolk Southern Conrail National Docks Secondary	Bayonne - Newark	40.699052°N 74.11°W

Hackensack River

PATH, Harsimus Branch, Wittpenn, and Lower Hack from an earlier time

Upper Hack Lift

One of the twin span of Route 3

mile	Crossing	Carries	Location	Coordinates
	HD Draw (defunct)	Newark and New York Railroad (CNJ)	Jersey City & Kearny Point	40.718709°N 74.103985°W
	Lincoln Highway Hackensack River Bridge	U.S. Route 1-9 Truck Lincoln Highway East Coast Greenway		40.727324°N 74.098728°W
	Pulaski Skyway	U.S. Route 1/9		40.735064°N 74.09493°W
	PATH Lift Bridge	PATH	Jersey City & Kearny Meadows	40.740108°N 74.083048°W
	Harsimus Branch Lift[1]	Conrail		40.740475°N 74.082034°W
	Wittpenn Bridge	NJ 7		40.740313°N 74.081138°W
3.4	Lower Hack Lift[1][2]	NJ Transit Morris and Essex Lines	Riverbend	40.7432°N 74.0770°W
5.0	Portal Bridge	Amtrak Northeast Corridor	Secaucus & Kearny Meadows	40°45′13″N 74°5′41″W
	New Jersey Turnpike	Interstate 95
	DB Draw (Abandoned)	Norfolk Southern Railway Former NJ Transit Boonton Line	Snake Hill & Kearny Meadows	40.7583°N 74.0933°W
6.9	Upper Hack Lift	NJ Transit Main Line	Harmon Cove & Kingsland	40.778015°N 74.089906°W
7.7	HX Bridge	NJ Transit: Bergen County Line Pascack Valley Line Meadowlands Rail Line	Harmon Cove & Meadowlands Sports Complex	40.788078°N 74.081869°W
	Twin span bridge	NJ 3	Secaucus & Meadowlands Sports Complex
	Bridge (defunct)	Jersey City, Hoboken and Rutherford Electric Railway Paterson Plank Road	Secaucus North End & Meadowlands Xanadu	40.801948°N 74.050333°W

Passaic River

Pulaski Skyway

Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift

Abandoned NX, aka the Annie Bridge

Mile	Crossing	Carries	Location
	PD Draw (defunct)	Newark and New York Railroad	Kearny Point & Newark Ironbound
1.8	Lincoln Highway Passaic River Bridge	U.S. Route 1-9 Truck Lincoln Highway	Kearny Point & Newark Ironbound
	Pulaski Skyway	U.S. Route 1/9	Kearny Point & Newark Ironbound
2.6	Point-No-Point Bridge	Passaic and Harsimus Line	Kearny Meadows & Newark Ironbound
	New Jersey Turnpike	Interstate 95	Kearny & Newark
	Jackson Street Bridge	Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard	Harrison & Newark Ironbound
5.0	Amtrak Dock Vertical Lift	Amtrak New Jersey Transit Port Authority Trans Hudson Newark line	Harrison & Penn Station (Newark)
	Centre Street Bridge (defunct)	New Jersey Railroad	Harrison & Newark
	Bridge Street Bridge	County Route 508	Harrison & Newark
	Newark Drawbridge[3]	New Jersey Transit	Harrison & Newark Broad Street Station
	William A. Stickel Memorial Bridge	Interstate 280	Harrison & Newark
	Clay Street Bridge	Central Avenue Clay Street	East Newark & Newark
	NX Bridge (abandoned/open position)	Erie Railroad Newark Branch	Harrison & Newark
	WR Draw (not in use/closed position )	New York and Greenwood Lake Railway Erie Railroad New Jersey Transit Boonton Line	Kearny & North Newark
8.9	Belleville Turnpike Bridge	NJ Route 7	Arlington & Belleville

Bergen Hill-Hudson Palisades

Long Dock Tunnel OR Old Bergen Tunnel, east end, taken February 10, 1906

Entrances to four of the railroad tunnels under Bergen Hill

HBLR 8th Street Viaduct

CCRNJ right-of way at Richard St Station on former Morris Canal

National Docks Secondary

Journal Square Transportation Center was built over Bergen Hill Cut

Bergen Hill Cut is also used by Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets lines

The Bergen Arches seen behind NJ Turnpike viaduct

One of the Bergen Arches

Railroad tunnels, cuts, viaducts and right of ways	Location	original use	Current use
Central Railroad of New Jersey	Bayonne and Greenville	Main Line to Communipaw Terminal partially built along the former Morris Canal	Hudson Bergen Light Rail Liberty State Park - 8th Street
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway	Bayonne, Greenville, Downtown Jersey City	Jersey City, Newark and Western Railway	National Docks Secondary CSX Transportation to Port Jersey, Constable Hook, Croxton Yard & other points in Port of New York and New Jersey and North Jersey Shared Assets Area
Newark and New York Railroad (1869)[4]	West Side & Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City	Central Railroad of New Jersey line from Downtown Newark to CRRNJ Terminal	Hudson-Bergen Light Rail West Side Branch
National Docks Secondary (1897)	Downtown Jersey City	National Docks	North Jersey Shared Assets CSX Transportation
Bergen Hill Cut (1838)[1]	Journal Square	New Jersey Rail Road and Transportation Company to Paulus Hook Pennsylvania Railroad to PRR Station at Exchange Place or Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove	PATH Journal Square and Newark lines North Jersey Shared Assets Area
Harsimus Stem Embankment	Harsimus & Hamilton Park	Harsimus Branch to Harsimus Cove Pennsylvania Railroad railyard and abattoir	unused
Bergen Arches (1910)[5]	Journal Square & Jersey City Heights	2nd Erie Cut Erie Railroad to Pavonia Terminal	unused
Long Dock Tunnel (1860)[6]	Journal Square & Jersey City Heights	First Erie Cut to Pavonia Terminal	Norfolk Southern
Bergen Tunnels (1876) & (1908)[7]	Jersey City Heights	Morris and Essex Railroad Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Erie Lackawanna	New Jersey Transit to Hoboken Terminal. [7]
Hoboken Elevated	Hoboken Terminal - Palisade Avenue	North Hudson County Railway Public Service Railway	dismantled after bustitution in 1949
Gateway Tunnel (proposed)	Amtrak New Jersey Transit	North Bergen and Midtown Manhattan
THE Tunnel	North Bergen - Weehawken	New mass transit tunnel that will connect Secaucus Junction with an expanded Penn Station (New York)	construction cancelled October 2010
New York Tunnel Extension (1910) western entrance Bergen Portal[8]	North Bergen - Weehawken	Pennsylvania Railroad to North River Tunnels	Amtrak New Jersey Transit: Northeast Corridor Line North Jersey Coast Line Train to the Game
Eldorado Cut (1893)[9]	Weehawken	for streetcar line connecting waterfront ferries via elevator to the entrance of late 19th century Eldorado Park and North Hudson Railway streetcar lines to Nungessers
Weehawken Tunnel (1861)[10][11][12]	North Bergen - Weehawken Port Imperial	New York Central West Shore Railroad	Hudson Bergen Light Rail Bergenline Station
The next cut and tunnel to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County
Edgewater Tunnel (1894)[13]	Fairview - Shadyside, Edgewater	New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway cut and tunnel[14]	unused

vehicular cuts	carries	location	connection
State Highway (Depressed Highway)	New Jersey Route 139	Jersey City	Pulaski Skyway - Holland Tunnel
Lincoln Tunnel Approach	NJ Route 495	North Hudson	New Jersey Turnpike - Lincoln Tunnel
The next vehicular cut to the north and the last in New Jersey is in Bergen County
GWB Plaza		Fort Lee	to George Washington Bridge
There are numerous excavations for roads on the eastern escarpment of the Hudson Palisades, including New York Avenue, Mountain Road, Paterson Plank Road, Wing Viaduct, Hackensack Plank Road, Shippen Street, Boulevard East, Pershing Road, Bull Ferry Road, Gorge Road

Meadowlands

New Jersey Turnpike and other infrastructure crisscross the Meadowlands

Kearny and Croxton in the low-lying Meadowlands supports an infrastructure that includes many unnamed bridges, embankments, flyovers, and causeways.

The Manhattan Transfer was once located in the Kearny Meadows. The Kearny Connection allows transfer between the Hoboken and Newark Divisions of New Jersey Transit rail operations for its Waterfront Connection. The Sawtooth Bridges carries the Northeast Corridor over NJ Tranist, PATH, and Conrail.

The Main, Bergen County, Pascack Valley, Meadowlands, and Port Jervis lines uses a series of embankments and bridges to cross the Meadowlands. Planned expansion of Secaucus Junction includes a massive loop. Numerous junctions, including the Marion, and the Northern Running Track are part of the Conrail's North Jersey Shared Assets Area, a component in the national freight rail network. Much of the New Jersey Turnpike travels along a causeway. Nearby Snake Hill, Exit 15's huge horseshoe-shaped U-turn rises above the rail yards and lines below it.

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
• List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey
• Timeline of Jersey City area railroads

References

1. Bulger, Teresa D. (May 7, 2019). "Feats of Engineering: Bridging the Hackensack River and Cutting through Bergen HillDocumentation for Three Historic Resources that Help Move Commerce and Commuters throughout the Port of New York and New Jersey" (PDF). NJDOT. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
2. "Jersey: Jersey City Bridge Profile". Shoutingthomas.typepad.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
3. (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20090327025729/http://www.state.nj.us/dep/hpo/1identify/lists/essex.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 27, 2009. Retrieved August 21, 2010. Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. "Pennsylvania Railroad cut, Mt Pleasant, Jersey City, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA". Mindat.org. October 11, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
5. "Bergen Arches". Njcu.edu. Archived from the original on September 29, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
6. "Stone above Long Dock Tunnel". Modelengineers.org. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
7. French, Kenneth, Images of Rail: Railroads of Hoboken and Jersey City,Arcadia Publishing, 2002, p125, ISBN 978-0-7385-0966-2
8. "The Bergen Hill Tunnels". Gutenberg.org. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
9. "JFK Blvd. Bridge". 40.773333;-74.015556: Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved October 23, 2012.CS1 maint: location (link)
10. "Design And Construction Of The Weehawken Tunnel And Bergenline Avenue Station For The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System - Publications Index". Pubsindex.trb.org. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
11. "New York - West Shore & Buffalo RR tunnel, Weehawken, Bergen Hill, Hudson Co., New Jersey, USA". Mindat.org. July 30, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
12. NJDOT Web Development Unit. "Paterson Plank Road Project Debuts in Hudson County". Nj.gov. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
13. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/03/17/109695387.pdf Palisades/NYS&W Tunnel
14. Palisades diabase

External links

• Bridgesnyc.com
• NJ bridges
• The Bridges of New Jersey
• Partial list HC bridges
• North Jersey.com: Bridges are man-made marvels of the Hackensack River
• NY Society of model engineers tour of NJ rr tunnels