Shadyside is the southernmost neighborhood of

Edgewater, New Jersey Edgewater is a borough located along the Hudson River in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 14,336, an increase of 2,823 (+24.5%) from the 2010 census count of 11,5 ...

that overlaps the waterfront of neighboring

North Bergen, New Jersey North Bergen is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 63,361, an increase of 2,588 (+4.3%) from the 2010 census count of 60,773, ...

. It likely takes its name from the fact that its position on the west bank of the

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is sometimes in the shadow of the

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. Shadyside was developed in the late 19th century as a manufacturing village, and railroad terminal for

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at the end of the Edgewater Tunnel, and site of a major

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at a glucose plant in 1906. It lies north of the neighborhood Bulls Ferry, a major river crossing of the period. North of this are the neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Undercliff, and

Burdett's Landing Burdett's Landing, also called Burdett's Ferry, is a site on the west bank of the Hudson River located in Edgewater, New Jersey. Ferries initially used Burdett's Landing as a departure point for transporting agricultural produce from New Jersey acr ...

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Public Service Railway Transport of New Jersey (TNJ), earlier Public Service Transportation and then Public Service Coordinated Transport, was a street railway and bus company in the U.S. state of New Jersey from 1917 to 1980, when NJ Transit took over their operatio ...

operated

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lines from the Edgewater Ferry Terminal. Previous industrial and

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uses of the area have since the 1980s given way to residential and recreational development, including the

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. The district's major thoroughfare is commonly known as River Road, which is serviced by New Jersey Transit routes 158 and 188 and

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buses, with connecting service to Port Imperial,

Weehawken Weehawken is a Township (New Jersey), township in the North Hudson, New Jersey, northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located on the Hudson Waterfront and Hudson Palisades overlooking ...

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