Woodcliff is a neighborhood in northeastern

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, ...

. The center of area is a large

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park known as North Hudson Park, which refers to the collective name of the municipalities in northern part of the county, and is officially named for

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, an American boxer who was a resident the township. The

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-shaped section north of the park is bordered by the southeastern

Bergen County Bergen County is the List of counties in New Jersey, most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Cliffside Park Cliffside Park is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 25,693, an increase of 2,099 (+8.9%) from the 2010 census count of 23,594, which in turn reflected ...

and Fairview, is characterized by a

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complex called Woodcliff Gardens. The neighborhood south of the park is bordered by

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and

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, across from which is North Bergen Public Library and the Racetrack Section. It southern border is shared with the borough of Guttenberg. High density housing includes single and multi-family dwellings as well as

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and high-rise

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. The section was developed early 1900s by the Woodcliff Land Improvement Company, organized by Hamilton V. Meeks in 1891. It is sometimes occasionally still called Hudson Heights. Located atop the

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, much of Woodcliff overlooks the

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and the neighborhoods along its banks, Shadyside and

Bulls Ferry Bulls Ferry (also Bull's Ferry) is an area along the Hudson River, just north of Weehawken Port Imperial in the towns of West New York, Guttenberg and North Bergen in New Jersey. It takes its name from a pre-Revolutionary settlement belonging ...

, to which it is connected by a colonial era road along the face of the cliff. The Woodcliff Treatment Plant is located at the foot of the escarpment.Woodcliff Treatment Plant
/ref> Woodcliff is served by

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and Manhattan-bound buses, as well numerous privately operated carritos,

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s and mini-buses originating at

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 g ...

, a major intersection.

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