Paulus Hook
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Paulus Hook is a community on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is located one mile across the river from Manhattan. The name Hook comes from the Dutch word "hoeck", which translates to "point of land." This "point of land" has been described as an elevated area, the location of which today is bounded by Montgomery, Hudson, Dudley, and Van Vorst Streets.
Paulus Hook Monument memorializing Continental Army troops who took part in the Battle of Paulus Hook during the Revolutionary War on August 19, 1779
The ferry dock in Paulus Hook
The Paulus Hook post office at 69 Montgomery Street
Pavonia, New Netherland
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Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River that was part of the seventeenth-century province of New Netherland in what would become the present Hudson County, New Jersey.
The replica Half Moon at mouth of the Hudson River approaching Lower Manhattan, site of New Amsterdam, with Hoboken, part of Pavonia, in background at left
1664 Duke's Plan includes depictions of either Harsimus, Paulus Hook, or Communipaw at time of the surrender of Fort Amsterdam. Bergen was farther inland atop Bergen Hill. Ellis Island and Liberty Island are seen lower right.
Newport, built on the previously landfilled Harsimus Cove from the Hudson River
Pavonia branch library