Image of Weehawken Cove/North Hoboken Harbor taken by NASA. (Image on the right with red line shows where it is.)
is a body of water on the west bank of the
Hudson River that straddles the boundary between the
New Jersey municipalities of
Hoboken to the south and
Weehawken to the north. The first European explorer to sight the cove was
Henry Hudson, who anchored his ship in the cove on
October 2,
1609. Most of the harbor is within
Hoboken boundaries, but a small section is in Weehawken. A pair of apartment complexes have been built along the cove in the last decade. At the perimeter of the cove are completed sections the
Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, offering views of
Manhattan and the
Palisades.
In 2005,
David Roberts, the mayor of Hoboken, unveiled a plan to build a Hoboken Cove parkat nearby 1600 Park Avenue. It also known as
North Hoboken Harbor,
Hoboken Cove and
Hoboken's Inner Harbor),
