Hoboken
Hoboken is a city in Hudson County in the U.S.
Hoboken is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Hoboken is part of the New York metropolitan area and is the site of Hoboken Terminal, a major transportation hub. As of the 2020 United States census, the city's population was 60,419, an increase of 10,414 (+20.8%) from the 2010 census count of 50,005, which in turn reflected an increase of 11,428 (+29.6%) from the 38,577 counted in the 2000 census. The Census Bureau's Population Estimates Program calculated a population of 59,149 for 2024. With more than 42,400 inhabitants per square mile (16,400/km2) in data from the 2010 census, Hoboken was ranked as the third-most densely populated municipality in the United States among cities with a population above 50,000. In the 2020 census, the city's population density climbed to more than 48,300 inhabitants per square mile (18,600/km2) of land, ranked fourth in the county behind Guttenberg, Union City and West New York, all of which are in Hudson County.
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Worth seeing in and around Hoboken
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, and its metal framework built by Gustave Eiffel.
6.3 km · monument in New York · Wikipedia - 02Empire State Building
The Empire State Building is a 102-story, supertall skyscraper in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. The building was designed in the Art Deco style by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and constructed between 1930 and 1931.
4 km · skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, USA · Wikipedia - 03Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1754 as King's College by royal charter under George II of Great Britain on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
9.1 km · private university in New York City, New York, US · Wikipedia - 04Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the third-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas.
7 km · art museum in New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 05Central Park
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres, and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.
7 km · public park at the center of Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 06New York University
New York University is a private research university in New York City, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a non-sectarian all-male institution near City Hall based on a curriculum focused on a secular education.
3.6 km · private university in New York City · Wikipedia - 07Chrysler Building
The Chrysler Building is a 1,046-foot-tall, Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper in the East Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States. Located at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue, it is the tallest steel-framed brick building in the world.
4.8 km · building in New York City · Wikipedia - 08One World Trade Center
One World Trade Center, also known as One WTC and the Freedom Tower, is the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Designed by David Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, One World Trade Center is the tallest building in the United States, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, and the seventh-tallest in the world.
3.9 km · main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City · Wikipedia - 09Times Square
Times Square is one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections, tourist destinations, and entertainment hubs. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
4.2 km · neighborhood and square in Manhattan, New York City, United States · Wikipedia - 10Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media.
5 km · art museum in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
With a great assortment of prewar buildings, Hoboken is a great place to wander on foot. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway offers a great view of New York City (day or night). The parks on 4th & park and 11th & Hudson both were used as locations and can be easily recognized from the film even in their modern state. “I coulda’ been a contender....“ Join in holiday celebrations in Hoboken.
- 01Elysian Fields
- 02Frank Sinatra's Birthplace
Marked by a bronze plaque in the sidewalk.
- 03Erie-Lackawanna Terminal
- 04Sybil's Cave
- 05Point of Embarkation
- 06Hoboken Historical Museum
Learn about the history of Hoboken from Dutch colonization to now.
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Things to do
Walk down Washington Street, there are many shops and restaurants here. Stop in Tunes and buy some music, a nice little music shop. Walk/jog/rollerblade along the Hudson River. The running path extends north to Weehawken (nicer, greener), and south through Jersey City to Liberty State Park (with short inland section). In summer/fall, water is available from water fountains.
- 01Pier A Park
On a clear day the incredible panorama visible from the end of the pier stretches between the George Washington and Verrazano Narrows Bridges.
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Where to eat
- 01Sri Thai
234 Bloomfield St (3rd and Bloomfield),.
- 02Illuzion
337 Washington St (corner of 4th and Washington), toll-free: +1 201-418-7337.
- 03La Isla Restaurant Downtown
Cuban restaurant feaured in Guy Fieri's Diner's, Drive Ins and Dives.
- 04Karma Kafe
505 Washington St, karmakafe@hotmail.com.
- 05Benny Tudino's Pizzeria
Known as the "Home of the largest slice".
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Getting to Hoboken
- Airports
- Newark Liberty (EWR), 13 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 14 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 24 km
- Stations
- Ellis Island, 5.1 km
- Philadelphia → Hoboken130 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · $12–16
- Hartford → Hoboken160 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $15–20
- Albany → Hoboken213 km · quickest by road, 3h 45m · $19–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hoboken
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hoboken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThese stations are meant for those who want to access the western parts of the city or for those who want an easy way from Union City to Hoboken Hoboken has two ferry terminals, Hoboken Terminal (see By rail-section) and .
- Get inNew York Waterway runs ferries to and from World Financial Center Pier 11 and Manhattan Midtown.
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Next door to Hoboken
Hoboken is 4 km from New York City, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- New York Citymost populous city in the United States4.2 km
- Manhattanborough of New York City, New York, United States3.7 km
- Jersey Citycity in New Jersey, United States4.5 km
- New York City Subwayrapid transit system in New York City5.7 km
- Stonewall riots1969 LGBT rights demonstrations in New York City, United States2.8 km
- Greenwich Villageneighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States2.8 km