User:Djflem/Weehawken stairs

Weehawken, New Jersey is located at the southern end of the Hudson Palisades on the west bank of the Hudson River. Over the years several outdoor staircases have been built between neighbourhoods atop the cliffs and the those along the Hudson River. While some are still in use others have fallen into disrepair or have been abandoned.

100 Steps
Between Park Avenue and Hackensack plank road

Greagory Avenue Steps
The Gregory Ave Steps were re-done in 1937 when the tunnel was being built. Originally the steps went straight up to Gregory from Park Ave, then they knocked them down to make the sideways steps along the retaining wall.

Liberty Street Steps
1990s in conjunction with the HBLR to Pershing Road.

Sterling Steps
built during the developement of the Lincoln Tunnel the end Sterling Avenue to Marginal Highway. In disrepair and fenced off.

Jefferson Street Stairs
Between Boulevard East the intersection of Jefferson and Sterling.

West Hoboken Steps
. Amid a redevelopment boom in the early 1960s, The Troy Towers, a 22-story twin tower luxury apartment complex, was built in 1965 on Mountain Road at 19th Street, at the former site of the Abbey Inn, where a motorized wagon vehicle elevator and a staircase called the Lossburg Steps, connected to Hackensack Plank Road in the Shades section of Weehawken below.

North Hudson County Railway,.. Horsecar lift Wagon Lift "Hitch Hiking" 1900- 1927 To the youth of North Hudson this was a dangerous adventure gliding up the steep incline from Weehawken to the Lossburg section of West Hoboken

Horsesoe Steps
Located on the at the Hudson Weehawken

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Renner Steps
Built in the early 1900s, Renner Steps, or Valley Steps, ran between Kings Bluff and Boulevard East to the Valley Park (now site of Lincoln Tunnel entrance) built in the early 1900s by the Renner and Henry Developing Company.

In 1914 a hack driver from Hoboken named Gramest was stopped by two men who asked to be taken to Weehawken. He found out they were about to commit a holdup and tried to foil it. An argument followed an Gramest chased the two men up the Renner steps. As he was chasing them, one of the…

Renner Steps, or Valley steps ran from the first turn on Kingswoods Rd down to Blvd East to the Valley Park. built in the early 1900s. Steps are long gone... the Renner steps were south of the old Hess station, going from Blvd East to Kingswood Rd.

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