Weehawken

Town in Hudson County, northeast New Jersey; population (1990) 12,400. It is situated on the Palisades of the Hudson River, to the north of Hoboken and opposite Midtown Manhattan, to which it is connected by the Lincoln Tunnel. It has varied industries, office buildings, and railway shops.

Weehawken became a fashionable home for commuters in the 1980s and 1990s; it has a ferry link to New York City. The town has older one-family homes as well as modern town houses and condominiums, many overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Weehawken's riverfront Highwood estate, later destroyed to make way for railway tracks, was the scene of the 1804 duel between politicians Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton.