Items

• Steps to West Hoboken from Weehawken, NJ

  Sepia toned postcard of steps leading from Hackensack Plank Road, Weehawken to West Hoboken, NJ. Published by Photo & Art Postal Card Co., 444 Broadway, NY
• Steps to Highwood Park

  Colored unused postcard of the wooden steps leading from Clifton Road (now Pershing Road) up to the top of the Palisades at Boulevard East.
• Dead End Steps on Kings Bluff, Weehawken
• Two Grauert Causeway Images

  Two undated images, probably from a newspaper article. The first shows the Grauert Causeway steps, which were built in 1915, and led from Boulevard East down to Pershing Road and to the ferry terminal. The 236-step staircase was closed about 1959, when the West Shore Ferry closed. The second image shows two young people looking at the river and NY skyline from the steps.
• Jefferson Street Stairs Plaques

  Color photographs of Jefferson Street Stairs plaques, the first is dated 1926, when the stairs were built, under the Grauert administration. The steps were reconstructed in 1988, under the Iacono administration.
• Weehawken Steps to Jersey City

  Colored photo postcard of the steps from Weehawken. Mailed August 18, 1910 from Hoboken. The Valentine and Sons Publishing Co,, Ltd., New York. Printed in Great Britain.
• View of Palisades Showing Wooden Steps

  Unposted color photo postcard showing the wooden steps leading down from Boulevard East to Pershing Road.
• The Steps at Weehawken, NJ

  Color photo postcard of The Steps (more than 100) leading from the Heights down to Hackensack Plank Road. Mailed April 18, 1908 from New York. John C. Voigt Post Card Co., Jersey City, NJ From the collection of Tony Bodtmann.
• Newspaper Clipping - Steps from Park Avenue to Union City

  Undated and unidentified newspaper clipping with the following caption: Twice a Day on These and Mountain Climbing Is Child's Play Before you reach this ascent from Park Avenue, Weehawken, to Twentieth Street and Gregory Avenue, Union City, you have climbed 22 steps. Then you go straight up 249 steps, gasping for breath at each landing, and you are just at the boundary of Union City. - A.F. Lozio This item is in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission.
• Dead End Steps on Kings Bluff, Weehawken

  Undated and unidentified newspaper clipping with a photo of some rather forlorn looking steps that led from the bluff down to Boulevard East, near the Lincoln Tunnel Plaza.
• Only 148 Steps

  Undated and unidentified newspaper clipping with a view of the stairs from Pershing Road to Boulevard East. The caption notes the presence of another stairway up the cliff with an additional 88 steps. This item is in the collection of the Weehawken Historical Commission
• Wagon Lift - Hoboken

  This image shows what the Weehawken Wagon Lift would have looked like in use, as it lifted a complete horse drawn wagon up the Palisades. This photo was actually taken on the Hoboken lift, according to Willie Demontreux,
• Steps from lower Weehawken to West Hoboken, N.J.

  A long flight of stairs in the Shades. Look closely and you'll see some people walking down as well as someone at the top of the flight.  
• Weehawken Wagon Elevator - Weehawken NJ

  A colored photo postcard view of the wagon elevator with a gentleman standing at the bottom. Postmarked January 16, 1911 from Hoboken.
• Railroad Has 72 Per Cent Grade

  At Weehawken, New Jersey, there is one of the queerest railways ever built. It is a 300 ft. incline with a grade of 72 per cent. Cars 20 ft. wide and 40 ft. long capable of carrying a load of 50,000 lb. are used on the line. These cars are operated by 300 hp electric motors and make the ascent in one minute. Both passengers and vehicles are carried. Page from an unknown book (heading is Encyclopedia - page 206).
• Wagon Hoist, from Weehawken to West Hoboken, N.J.

  Colored photo postcard of elevator for raising wagons up the Palisades to Weehawken Street in West Hoboken (now 19th Street, Union City). The elevator was built in 1874 by John H. Bonn's railroad company. Cars were 20 feet wide, 40 feet long and capable of carrying a load of 50,000 lbs in one minute by means of a 300-horsepower electric motor.
• Wagon Elevator, Weehawken to Jersey City, NJ

  Colored photo postcard of the wagon elevators that used to take fully loaded horse drawn wagons from the waterfront up to upper West (now Union City.) The card is mislabeled. One car is on the way up and the other on the way back down. Postmarked May 3, 1912 from Jersey City.
• Weehawken Steps, Weehawken NJ

  Hand colored postcard - a lone man descends the steps from Boulevard East to the river front. Postmarked September 4, 1909 from Weehawken.
• Steps to Weehawken up Palisades , Weehawken, N.J.

  Hand colored photo postcard of old wooden steps up the Palisades. Horse drawn wagon at the bottom and a number of people on the steps. Postmarked August 1, 1911 from Weehawken.
• New Stone Steps & Palisades, Weehawken, N.J.

  Hand colored photo postcard of the steps (Grauert Causeway, built 1915) up the Palisades from Pershing Road. Postmarked August 16, 1920 from Weehawken. Published by Hudson Co., Union Hill, NJ Update: Feb 15, 2004.Weehawken Historical Commission member Willie Demontreux contributed these photographs, which show what's left of these stairs today as well as the inscription Grauert Causeway - 1915 which appears halfway up the steps.     That's Willie in the last photo...  
• Steps to West Shore Ferries, Highwood Park, Weehawken

  Colored photo postcard of steps up from Pershing Road to the top of the Palisades near Columbia Terrace. Postmarked August 4, 1908 from Weehawken.
• Wagon Elevator and 100 Steps, West Hoboken, N.J.

  Undivided postcard drawing of the 100 steps and wagon elevator in purple with glitter trim. Postmarked February 26, 1906 from Hoboken.