Bergen Hill

Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, where they emerge on Bergen Neck,[1] which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, and their bays.

From south to north they are: The North Hudson County Railway or its predecessor was responsible for many of the innovative engineering works which made streetcar travel on the east face of Bergen Hill possible, including funicular wagon lifts, an inclined elevated, a luxurious elevator, horseshoe curves, and viaducts.

[citation needed] Other major excavations and structures for vehicular traffic have significantly altered Bergen Hill.

Summit Avenue, which starts at The Junction in the Bergen-Lafayette Section follows the route of a path used by Native Americans from their settlement at Communipaw, and was used by New Netherlanders from that village on the bay to the one on the ridge at Bergen.

It intersected Newark Plank Road, an early colonial "turnpike" which ran from Paulus Hook over the hill, at Five Corners, and continued north through Bergen Woods,[22] where it connected with Paterson Plank Road and Hackensack Plank Road.