Western portals of Bergen Hill Tunnels, Long Dock Tunnel, Bergen Arches, and Route 1 ExtensionWestern portal of North River Tunnels
Artificial features of Bergen Hill include the 19th century and early 20th century railroad rights-of-way. Cuts and tunnels created to provide access to the terminals and ferries on the North River (Hudson River) and Upper New York Bay, and eventually under the river. From south to north they are:
The Gateway Program, a Northeast Corridor infrastructure expansion project includes a tunnel from its portal in North Bergen to Weehawken Cove, under the Hudson River to New York Penn.
The North River Tunnels (1910), part of the Northeast Corridor their western entrance called the Bergen Portal[11]
Liberty Place in Weehawken, was a cut and tunnel for the rail line connecting the waterfront elevator to the entrance of 19th century Eldorado Park, later used by the North Hudson Railwaystreetcar lines.[12]
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