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.^[1][2] 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,^[3] as has adjacent North Hudson Park.^[4]

Woodcliff, Fairview, Anderson Avenue and Bergenline Avenue, at the Bergen-Hudson county line

Intersection

A major street that begins at Nungesser's is Bergenline Avenue which travelling south becomes the main shopping district of North Hudson. Just over the county line it becomes Anderson Avenue, travelling north through the urban eastern Bergen Hudson Palisades communities of Fairview, Cliffside Park and Fort Lee. The other roads which meet in the district are Kennedy Boulevard, Bergen Boulevard and Fairview Avenue from the west. To the east Boulevard East and Woodcliff Avenue connect to the northbound Palisade Avenue in the park.^[5]

Transportation

Nungessers is a major transit transfer point and terminus for public bus transportation.^[6] Several New Jersey Transit bus lines either originate/terminate or pass through the area, as do many privately operated jitney (dollar van) routes. Service from bus stops situated in the area travels to points in Hudson and Bergen and to the Port Authority Bus Terminal and the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Manhattan.^{[7][8][9][10]} Jitneys travel southbound to Boulevard East, Hudson County Courthouse, Newport Mall, 42nd Street (Manhattan), and northbound along Anderson Avenue to George Washington Bridge Plaza.^[11]

Service

The 159 travels along busy Anderson-Bergenline corridor.

Dollar vans, or guaguas, augment NJT bus service.

Of the many buses passing Nungessers, the 181 is the only Manhattan-bound bus to terminate at GWB Station.

route	destination	major points
22 southbound NJT[12]	Hudson Place Hoboken Terminal	Bergenline Station NJ 495 Marginal Highway 14th Street Viaduct
84 southbound NJT[13]	Journal Square Transportation Center Jersey City	Bergenline Station NJ 495 Marginal Highway 9th/Congress Station Jersey City Heights Hudson County Courthouse
88 southbound NJT[14]	Journal Square Transportation Center Jersey City	Kennedy Boulevard via Bergenline Station Transfer Station Jersey City Heights
89 southbound NJT[15]	Hudson Place Hoboken Terminal	Bergenline Station Weehawken Water Tower Willow Ave/Park Ave 14th Street (Hoboken)
128 eastbound NJT[16]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Boulevard East Lincoln Tunnel
154 northbound NJT[17]	Fort Lee	Ridgefield Palisades Park
154 southbound NJT[17]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Kennedy Boulevard 495 Marginal Highway Lincoln Tunnel
156 northbound NJT[18]	Englewood Cliffs	Palisade Avenue Cliffside Edgewater GWB Plaza
156 southbound NJT[18]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Bergenline Weehawken Water Tower Lincoln Tunnel
159 northbound NJT[19]	GWB Plaza Fort Lee	city = GWB Plaza
159 southbound NJT[19]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Bergenline 495 Marginal Highway Lincoln Tunnel
165 northbound NJT[20]	Westwood, New Jersey	The Ridgefields Hackensack Kinderkamack Road Emerson (NJT station)
165 eastbound NJT[20]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Boulevard East Lincoln Tunnel
166 eastbound NJT[21]	Englewood Cresskill
166 eastbound NJT[21]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Boulevard East Lincoln Tunnel
168 northbound NJT[22]	Paramus Park	The Ridgefields Teaneck Hackensack
168 eastbound NJT[22]	Port Authority Bus Terminal 42nd Street (Manhattan)	Boulevard East Lincoln Tunnel
181 eastbound NJT[23]	George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal 175th Street Station Manhattan	Palisade Avenue GWB Plaza
751 westbound NJT[24]	Bergen Community College	Teaneck Hackensack Bus Transfer[24] The Outlets at Bergen Town Center
751 eastbound NJT[24]	Edgewater Commons	Cliffside Park Anderson Avenue
NY Waterway eastbound NY Waterway[25]	Port Imperial	Boulevard East

References

1. Schlegel, Charles (2003). Schlegel's American families of German Ancestry in the United States. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. p. 176. ISBN 0-8063-1728-0.
2. Martin, Kevin (January 28, 2010). "Winter Racing at New Jersey's Guttenberg Race Track, 1885-1893". Colins Ghost: Thoroughbred Racing History. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
3. Kennedy, Shawn G. (December 16, 1987). "Real Estate; A New Look For the Old White Castle". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 6, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
4. Arthur G. Adams (1996). Guidebook to the Hudson. Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-1676-5.
5. Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-0-88097-763-0.
6. "Hudson Bus circulation report 2007" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved January 19, 2010.
7. Bergen County Bus / Rail Connections, NJ Transit, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 22, 2009. Accessed September 14, 2016.
8. Bergen County System Map Archived 2019-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, NJ Transit. Accessed September 14, 2016.
9. Hudson County Bus / Rail Connections, NJ Transit, backed up by the Internet Archive as of May 22, 2009. Accessed September 11, 2011.
10. Hudson County System Map Archived 2017-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, NJ Transit. Accessed September 14, 2016.
11. AECOM Technical Services, Inc. Hudson County Jitney Study Archived 2016-04-15 at the Wayback Machine, July 2011. North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority. Accessed September 14, 2016. "Nungessers refers to the area where JFK Boulevard, Boulevard East, Bergenline Avenue, Fairview Avenue, Anderson Avenue, and Woodcliff Avenue converge, at the northwest corner of North Hudson County Park. Shown in Figure 17, Nungessers is the terminus for three different jitney routes (Boulevard East, Kennedy Boulevard, and Bergenline Avenue – PABT) and is served by a fourth (Bergenline Avenue)."
12. NJT bus 22 schedule
13. NJT bus 84 schedule
14. NJT bus 88 schedule
15. NJT bus 89 schedule
16. NJT bus 128 schedule
17. NJT bus 154 schedule
18. NJT bus 156 schedule
19. NJT bus 159 schedule
20. NJT 165 schedule
21. NJT 166 schedule
22. "NJT 168 schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 21, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
23. NJT bus 181 schedule
24. "NJT 751 schedule" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 22, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2010.
25. Blvd East Bus

External links

• Unofficial New Jersey bus map
• NJ Transit route finder Archived 2017-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
• NJT Bus Routes in Bergen County Archived 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine
• NJT Bus Routes in Hudson County Archived 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine

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