Its high elevation of about 260 ft (79 m)[1] affords North Hudson expansive views of the Manhattan skyline to the east and of the Meadowlands, as well as the Watchung Mountains beyond, to the west.
Many of the tall buildings are part of a string of residential high-rises that continues north along the Boulevard East–Palisade Avenue–River Road corridors into the eastern Bergen County towns of Cliffside Park, Edgewater and Fort Lee.
[13][14][15][16] There is proposed state legislation to restrict building heights that would rise above the cliffs or Palisade Avenue along the entire corridor from Jersey City to Fort Lee.
[45] In 1890, the North Hudson County Railway built an elevator tower and viaduct to connect with trains at Weehawken Terminal with its street car lines on top of the Palisades.
[46] The Hudson County Brewing Company headquarters and plant built circa 1901 in what was West Hoboken was demolished in the early 1930s and became the site of Roosevelt Stadium.