The Heights, Jersey City

It is bound by Paterson Plank Road on the north, Highway 139 on the south, Hoboken on the east, and the Hackensack River on the west.

[7] The Heights was part of the colony of Pavonia, New Netherland, the superintendent of which was the American patriarch of the Van Vorst family.

A Van Vorst House built in 1742 by the family (now on Palisade Avenue) is considered to be the oldest building in Hudson County.

[10] In the early 20th century, before Hollywood, the American motion picture industry was mainly based in New Jersey towns along the Hudson River.

[11] Chief among them was Fort Lee, which was the nation's first motion picture capital,[12][13] with other early film studios headquartered in neighboring towns such as Jersey City.

Although the Jersey City plant produced moderately popular comedies, dramas, and newsreels largely directed at the US market, Perils of Pauline was the first American-made Pathé effort to achieve worldwide success under the Eclectic banner.