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Hoboken

City and port in northeastern New Jersey, USA, on the western shore of the Hudson River opposite central Manhattan; population (1990) 33,400. Industries include electronics, electrical equipment, paper, and chemicals.

The site was bought by the Dutch from American Indians in 1630 and the first brewery in America was built here in 1642. Hoboken was laid out in 1804, and incorporated as a city in 1855. In the 19th century Hoboken was a tourist resort and a ferry port for passengers travelling to New York. Virtually none of this passenger-ferry traffic now remains, as two road tunnels pass under the Hudson - the Lincoln in the north and the Holland in the south. These two tunnels roughly define the boundaries of Hoboken and its port area.

Hoboken is the seat of the Stevens Institute of Technology (1870).


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