Landmarks of Hoboken, New Jersey

A famous bakery and setting for the TLC reality television series Cake Boss.

The name is a corruption of "Castille Point", due to its supposed resemblance to the Castilian coast.

To early navigators, the high serpentine crag jutting over the river reminded them of a miniature Rock of Gibraltar.

[5] In 2004, the Clam Broth House building was condemned by city officials because of structural failures caused by construction workers, and destroyed.

Its current location was once the W. & A. Fletcher Company machine shop, a hub of the city's 19th century shipbuilding and repair industry.

[14] Hoboken Terminal, also known as Lackawanna Station (named for the Native American tribe that formerly made the area their dwelling), at the city's southeast corner, is a major transportation hub and a national historic landmark was built in 1907.

On July 29, 2005, two local news stations, ABC and UPN, came to the shrine to report it live and interview people.

Named after the ancient Greco-Roman prophetesses, it was originally Hoboken's biggest tourist attraction, for the magnesium-laced water that flows from the spring.

[25] The cave gained national attention in 1841 when the body of a young cigar shop worker, Mary Cecilia Rogers, washed ashore nearby, an incident that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's The Mystery of Marie Rogêt, one of the first true-crime detective novels.

From the mid-to-late-1800s, thousands of glasses were sold daily for a penny each to tourists from New York, who drank the cave's water[26] in the belief that it had therapeutic properties.

[27] The cave was closed in 1880 due to health department concerns about water quality, and it was used as a cool storage locker for a nearby eating establishment.

That establishment devolved into a seedy waterfront tavern and closed in the 1930s, when the cave was filled in with concrete and dirt.

of the radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, with a bas-relief tribute to the Four Chaplains, who sacrificed their lives, going down with their ship, the U.S.S.

Since the original pedestal was too large for the present monument, Mr. Minervini added the four chaplains at the request of Mayor John Grogan.

There is also a memorial dedicated to John A. Sacci, a beloved Hoboken High School History teacher, who was tragically shot on February 12, 1998.

The playground closest to 9th Street was dedicated in 2002 to the memory of Deborah Lynn Williams, a Hoboken mother killed at the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks.

Sinatra Park is shaped in a Roman amphitheater style with an area that faces the former site of the World Trade Center.

[37] On August 24, 2004, CNN broadcast live episodes of Inside Politics and Crossfire from the park.

It also includes an upgraded spray feature, swing set, climbing net, shade structure, additional benches, and bathroom.

Pier A has a water-jet fountain, bike paths, rows of trees (some of them transplanted in maturity), a big field, a fishing area (with water pumps and cutting boards) and a gazebo at its eastern extremity.

It is an example of good civic design, particularly the grass field which is firm and natural-looking though its sod is layered atop concrete.

In warm weather, movies are shown on the pier at night, against the blazing Manhattan skyline rising behind the screen.

On one Saturday during the summer, a town fair is held on Pier A, including music, craft shops and rides for the kids.

[54] Many people witnessed the September 11 attacks from Pier A because it had good views of the World Trade Center.

The park contains a number of amenities, including a large lawn, athletic fields, a basketball court, and a children's play area.

It also contains more than 2 million gallons of stormwater retention, and was funded in part by the Rebuild by Design project in response to flooding caused by Hurricane Sandy.

Originally Hudson Square, the park was renamed in 1955 in honor of the Stevens family who donated the land.

[32] Also, in the western part of the park are two Dahlgren guns (from the USS Portsmouth)[1] facing west towards the St. Peter & Paul Church's cafeteria.