The Racetrack Section, also known as Hudson Heights, is a
neighborhood
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, ...
of
North Bergen Township in
Hudson County,
New Jersey, United States. It is a mostly residential district between
Bergenline and
Kennedy Boulevard. Its east–west streets follow the numbering of other
North Hudson towns while its north–south streets are called avenues and are numbered First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth. Located on the plateau of the
Hudson Palisades (which begin their descent at the Boulevard) the Racetrack Section consists of mostly one and two family homes and enjoys convenient public transportation, a stable population, and proximity to North Bergen Public Library,
North Bergen High School,
North Hudson Park and
Woodcliff.
The neighborhood takes its name from Nungesser's Guttenberg Racetrack.
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/ref> The racetrack located in the area was a popular with day-tripper
A day trip is a visit to a tourist destination or visitor attraction from a person's home, hotel, or hostel in the morning, returning to the same lodging in the evening. The day trip is a form of recreational travel and leisure to a location that ...
s from New York (who traveled by streetcar from the elevator at the Weehawken Ferry) during the latter part of the 19th century, until gaming was outlawed by the New Jersey legislature in 1893. While the tracks closed, the area remained an amusement park known as Little Coney Island. The "pleasure resort" as it was known, gained a reputation as attracting a similarly rowdy crowd as the racetrack, and reported incidents of alcohol being served to children and women being drugged. The recently invented ice cream cone was popularized at the park. The track was later used as a roadhouse for automobilists until the former clubhouse burned down in 1910. The site became a known landing spot for early aviators.
The land on which the racetrack had been was subdivided in 1919, and later was built upon creating the section which exists today. .
/ref> or Nungesser's
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 gami ...
, which is more commonly used to describe the intersection and transportation hub at the northwest corner of North Hudson Park, at the Bergen line with Fairview border.
See also
List of neighborhoods in North Bergen, New Jersey
References
{{Hudson County, New Jersey
North Bergen, New Jersey
Neighborhoods in Hudson County, New Jersey