Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in North Bergen (United States). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Fairview Cemetery, Mount Moriah Cemetery, and Flower Hill Cemetery. Also, be sure to include Fairview in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in North Bergen (New Jersey).
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Fairview Cemetery
Cemetery in Fairview, New Jersey. Fairview Cemetery, also known as Fairview Memorial Park and Mausoleum, is a burial ground in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States, located on the western slopes of the Hudson Palisades. It is bordered by North Bergen, Broad Avenue, and Fairview Avenue, across from which is Mount Moriah Cemetery. The New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad right-of-way at western portal of the Edgewater Tunnel passes through the cemetery.[1]
Address: 500 Fairview Ave, 07022 Fairview
Mount Moriah Cemetery
Burial ground. Mount Moriah Cemetery is a burial ground in Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States, located on the western slopes of the Hudson Palisades, nearby the Fairview Cemetery.
Moriah (Hebrew: מוֹרִיָּה, Modern: Moriyya, Tiberian: Môriyyā) (Arabic: مروة Marwah) is the name given to a mountain by the Book of Genesis, in which context it is the location of the sacrifice of Isaac.[2]
Flower Hill Cemetery
Cemetery in North Bergen, New Jersey. Flower Hill Cemetery is located in North Bergen, New Jersey. It is cojoined with Hoboken Cemetery and Machpelah Cemetery.[3]
Address: 5433 Kennedy Blvd, 07047 North Bergen
Fairview
Township in New Jersey. Fairview is a borough located in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough had a total population of 13,835, reflecting an increase of 580 from the 13,255 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 2,522 from the 10,733 counted in the 1990 Census.
Fairview was formed on December 19, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield Township, based on the results of a referendum held the previous day. The borough was formed during the "Boroughitis" phenomenon then sweeping through Bergen County, in which 26 boroughs were formed in the county in 1894 alone. The borough is named for its view of the Hackensack River valley.[4]
Schuetzen Park
Park in North Bergen, New Jersey. Schuetzen Park is a privately owned park in North Bergen, New Jersey, United States, that has existed since 1872 and is located on the ridge of the Hudson Palisades at Kennedy Boulevard and Bergen Turnpike just north of the Marginal Highway. Its southern and western perimeters are shared with the Fritz Reuter Altenheim, a retirement community named for the German author, Fritz Reuter, and Columbia Park, a large shopping center. The German-American Volksfest has taken place there annually since its construction.[5]
Ascension Greek Orthodox Church
Church
Address: 345 Henry St, 07022 Fairview
Mill Creek Marsh
Mill Creek Marsh is a nature preserve in the New Jersey Meadowlands located in Secaucus at its border with North Bergen, the Cromakill Creek, in Hudson County, New Jersey. It is fed by the Hackensack River, and is a contributing property to the Hackensack RiverWalk.
It is contiguous to the west by Mill Creek and the Schmidts Woods and Secaucus High School, to the north by Western Brackish Marsh, to the east by the Eastern Brackish Marsh, and Cromakill Marsh.
The Eastern Spur of New Jersey Turnpike runs through the nature area, which is bordered to the south by The Plaza at Harmon Meadow, which includes the Mall at Mill Creek.[6]
Stonehenge Building
Apartment. The Stonehenge is a residential apartment building on Boulevard East in the Woodcliff section of North Bergen, New Jersey in the United States. Situated adjacent to North Hudson Park, the building was constructed in 1967 during a high-rise building spree and at 369 feet is among the tallest buildings in the area. The 34-story building has 356 apartments and 5 levels of indoor parking.[7]
Nungessers
Nungessers is the name of the confluence of roads that meet at the Hudson and Bergen county line at North Bergen and Fairview in northeastern New Jersey. The area is the former site of the Nungesser's Gutenberg Racetrack, a late 19th-century gaming and gambling venue. The neighborhood just south of Nungesser's is called the Racetrack Section and the municipality of Guttenberg is nearby. A White Castle, an early drive-in fast-food chain, originally built in the 1930s has long been a landmark in the neighborhood, as has adjacent North Hudson Park.[8]
Bergenwood
Bergenwood is a long narrow district of North Bergen, New Jersey in the northern central part of the township between Kennedy Boulevard and Tonnelle Avenue, characterized by the steep slopes on the west side of the Hudson Palisades as they descend to the New Jersey Meadowlands.[9]
Woodcliff
Neighborhood in North Bergen, New Jersey. Woodcliff is a neighborhood in northeastern North Bergen, New Jersey. The center of area is a large Hudson County park known as North Hudson Park, which refers to the collective name of the municipalities in northern part of the county, and is officially named for James J. Braddock, an American boxer who was a resident the township.
The boomerang-shaped section north of the park is bordered by the southeastern Bergen County towns of Cliffside Park and Fairview, is characterized by a garden apartment complex called Woodcliff Gardens. The neighborhood south of the park is bordered by Boulevard East and Bergenline Avenue, across from which is North Bergen Public Library and the Racetrack Section. It southern border is shared with the borough of Guttenberg. High density housing includes single and multi-family dwellings as well as low-rise and high-rise apartment buildings.
The section was developed early 1900s by the Woodcliff Land Improvement Company, organized by Hamilton V. Meeks in 1891. It is sometimes occasionally still called Hudson Heights. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, much of Woodcliff overlooks the Hudson River and the neighborhoods along its banks, Shadyside and Bulls Ferry, to which it is connected by a colonial era road along the face of the cliff. The Woodcliff Treatment Plant is located at the foot of the escarpment.
Woodcliff is served by New Jersey Transit local and Manhattan-bound buses, as well numerous privately operated carritos, dollar vans and mini-buses originating at Nungesser's, a major intersection.[10]