Gateway Region
The region is anchored by Newark, the state's most populous city, and constitutes part of the New York metropolitan area.
[5] The designation Gateway Region has not caught on in local parlance, as the topography and self-identification of the residents tend not to correspond to the collective name.
Though there are broad distinctions between cities, suburbs, heavy industry, light manufacturing, recreational "green spaces", nature preserves, and retail, transportation, and maritime infrastructure, the landscape is characterized by their close proximity to each other, as is typical of urban sprawl.
Later called Delaware Indian, this collection of Algonquian-language speaking people included the Hackensack, Raritan, and Tappan.
The Lenape retreated to the west as settlements grew, and "agreed" to re-locate in 1766 with the Treaty of Easton, though some became part of the Ramapough Mountain Indians.
Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company anchored his ship the Halve Maen (Half Moon) at Sandy Hook and Weehawken Cove in 1609.
[7] When the English entered New York Harbor in 1664, a negotiated surrender (which guaranteed religious tolerance and protection of private property) was made to transfer control of the area to the British crown.
Elizabethtown was founded as the capitol and became the first officially English-speaking settlement, named after the wife of the province's proprietor, Sir George Cateret.
Several battles of American Revolution took place in the region including those at Connecticut Farms, Bound Brook, and Paulus Hook.
), which encouraged the harnessing of the water power of the Great Falls of the Passaic and to secure economic independence from British manufacturers.
Paterson, which was founded by the society, became the cradle of the industrial revolution in America, supported in part by the Morris Canal built in the 1820s.
Among the industries that would prosper in the first half of the 20th century were Alcoa Aluminum, the Ford Motor Company, Lever Brothers, Valvoline Oil Co. and Archer-Daniels-Midland.
[15] While immigration to Ellis Island decreased the population continued to grow, in part due to the Great Migration.
Upon entry into World War I, the US government took the Hamburg-American Line piers in Hoboken under eminent domain, which became the major point of embarkation for more than three million soldiers, known as "doughboys".
[16] In 1916, an act of sabotage literally and figuratively shook the region when German agents set off bombs at the munitions depot in New York Bay at Black Tom.
Direct distance dialing (DDD) was introduced on November 10, 1951, in Englewood[27] The northern parts of the New Jersey Turnpike were opened between 1952 and 1956.
Gentrification of the Hoboken and Downtown Jersey City nineteenth-century districts began in the late 1970s, which led to the eventual redevelopment of the Hudson Waterfront.
Secaucus Junction, Midtown Direct, and the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail began service and changed local commuting patterns.
The Gateway Region has an extensive network of national highways, state freeways, and toll roads; commuter and long-distance trains; an expanding light rail system; local and interstate bus routes; and is home to one of the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area's three major airports.
Commercial scheduled passenger service: General aviation: The Port of New York and New Jersey is the nation's third busiest.
The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal national symbols of mass immigration to the United States are all located on the Upper New York Bay.
The Edison National Historic Site and the Great Falls of the Passaic River speak to the innovation of the region.
Located near New York City, many residents and visitors take advantage of and contribute to performances in music, theater, and dance.
