West Hudson, New Jersey

Residential and commercial districts, including Arlington, are concentrated along the banks of the Passaic, also site of Kearny Riverbank Park.

[8] The area was known as Meghgectecock (spellings include masgichteu-cunk) by the Hackensack tribe of Lenape people who lived there at the time of European colonization,[9] meaning where May-apples grow, from a moist-woodland perennial that bears edible yellow berries[10] and used to describe the lobe of land between and before the confluence of the Hackensack and Passaic at Newark Bay.

[5] The West Hudson municipalities were part of Harrison Township, which was created by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 13, 1840, and was part of Hudson County, which had been created from portions of Bergen County on February 22, 1840.

[13][14] The West Hudson towns and Newark, particularly the Ironbound across the Passaic, have had a long tradition of soccer.

[15][16][17][18][19][20] Kearny's nickname, "Soccer Town, USA" comes from tradition that originated in the mid-1870s after Scottish and Irish immigration.