Weehawken, New Jersey, was formed on March 15, 1859. It encompasses 1.5 square miles and is situated on the Hudson River along the southern end of the New Jersey Palisades. The township has several distinct neighborhoods, including Downtown, The Heights, Uptown, and The Waterfront, which have been developed to serve transportation, commercial, recreational, and residential needs.
New Jersey is in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the U.S. It shares borders with New York, the Atlantic Ocean, the Delaware River, Pennsylvania, Delaware Bay, and Delaware. It spans 7,354 square miles, making it the fifth-smallest state, but it has about 9,300,000 residents, making it the 11th-most populous and most densely populated. The state capital is Trenton.