'Hoboken: more than a City, a Neighborhood' is the slogan adopted by the City of Hoboken, and for anyone who has visited this charming square mile community, it certainly seems appropriate
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| 'Hoboken: more than a City, a Neighborhood' is the slogan adopted by the City of Hoboken, and for anyone who has visited this charming square mile community, it certainly seems appropriate. With beautiful panoramic views of the New York City Skyline, Historic Brownstones, Thriving neighborhoods, Convenience to Transportation, Cobblestone streets, Beautiful Churches, Italian Bakeries, Specialty shops, Fine Restaurants and Cafes, Hoboken has established itself as the place to be in New Jersey. The small town feel in an urban setting has attracted Young Professionals and Families from all over New Jersey, Wall Street, and other parts of New York.
B  ordered by the Hudson River and the Palisades, and centered between the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, Hoboken is just one square mile. One can walk to everything, yet the city is also a transportation hub; with easy access to the Path Train, NY Waterway Ferries, Erie Lackawanna Train Terminal and the Bergen-Hudson Light Rail System.
Hoboken has quite different characteristics than any other cities of New Jersey. Some people consider Hoboken as a part of Manhattan because of these characteristics. The population of Hoboken is more than 38000 and the land area of Hoboken is 1.3 square miles. White non-hispanics form the highest percent of the total races found in the Hoboken (70.5%). For population 25 years and over in Hoboken 83.3% percent graduated from high school or higher, 59.3% hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and 18.7% hold a graduate or professional degree. The unemployed percentage of Hoboken is 4.4. The median resident age is 30.4, the median household income is $62,500 and the median house value is $428,900. Hoboken is like a huge terminal connecting New Jersey to New York. That’s why many people working at NYC around the age 30 prefer having their homes at Hoboken. It’s close to NYC and in some ways even better than living there. The main transportation fact that makes Hoboken this much valuable and preferred is the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) train which connects Hoboken to Manhattan 24 hours a day. It runs every 5 or 6 minutes at the rush hour and provides easy access to 33rd Street and WTC stations at Manhattan. 
As late as 1910 no railroad coming from the south or the west had a direct connection to New York City, the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. The terminals of the railroads - whether the giant ones like the Pennsylvania and the Erie or the minor ones like the West Shore and the Susquehanna - stood on the New Jersey shore of the North River, the local name for this stretch of the Hudson. In Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken the major railroad companies built their large passenger stations at the edge of the river which here is close to a mile wide. Numerous ferry routes connected these New Jersey stations to Manhattan: particularly to 23rd Street, 14th Street, Christopher Street and Lower Manhattan. The main reason of this project was connecting New Jersey with Manhattan by railroads. The cost of the whole project was estimated at $55 million and turned out to be closer to $60 million [equal to more than $1 billion in 2003 dollars.] On Saturday January 25, 1908 there was the formal trial through the south side "Hoboken to 8th Street" tunnel" [as it was called in contemporary accounts]. February 5, 1908 saw the press introduction, leaving 14th Street at 4:30 pm heading to Hoboken. O  n February 25, 1908 the H&M ran its first Tubes service through the uptown pair of tunnels (originally begun in 1874) between Hoboken and the temporary end of the line at 19th Street in Manhattan. Using a telegraph connection President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington turned on the power at 3:30 pm [for the beginning of the ceremony the regular power had apparently been turned off and switched over to storage power until the President opened the switch]. Simultaneously, one train set out from 19th Street carrying the New York governor, one train started from Hoboken carrying the New Jersey governor. Finally at midnight on February 25, 1908 the system was opened to the public, again with two trains, one leaving from 19th Street, one leaving from Hoboken
On July 19, 1909 operations began between Lower Manhattan and Lower Jersey City through the "Montgomery-Cortlandt Tunnels", located about 1 1/4 miles below the first pair. Two weeks later, tube trains began running through the New Jersey tunnels, going under what is now Washington Boulevard from Hoboken past the Erie RR Station to Exchange Place. Just as the Tubes were going into service George M. Cohan's "Only 45 Minutes from Broadway" was one of the big hits of the day. The 20 minute North River ferry crossing became a three minute ride, far closer than Cohan's 45 minutes, as shown in this cartoon playing on that song title from the time of the beginning of service. [With the completion of the uptown Manhattan extension to Pennsylvania Station and a westward overland extension to Manhattan Transfer and Newark in 1911, the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad was complete. A  nother connection of Hoboken to Manhattan is the ferries. There are two ferry piers in Hoboken, one at the north and one at the south. The north ferry provides access to Midtown W 38th Street and World Financial Center at Manhattan. The south ferry provides access to Midtown W 38th Street, World Financial Center at Manhattan, and Pier 11 at Wall Street at Manhattan. The one way fare for south ferry is $3 whereas the one way fare for north ferry is $5. After September 11, 2001 with the destruction of the PATH's lower Manhattan link, ferries have played an important role in efficiently moving commuters.
N  J TRANSIT is New Jersey's public transportation corporation. Covering a service area of 5,325 square miles, NJ TRANSIT is the nation's third largest provider of bus, rail and light rail transit, linking major points in New Jersey, New York and Philadelphia. The agency operates a fleet of 2,027 buses, 711 trains and 45 light rail vehicles. On 236 bus routes and 11 rail lines statewide, NJ TRANSIT provides nearly 223 million passenger trips each year. It provides Bus and Railroad service to Hoboken. The rail lines that end at the Hoboken rail station are showed below. Besides these lines below, by the opening of Secaucus Junction the other NJ Transit lines were connected with these lines. NJ TRANSIT operates the state's commuter rail network. The rail system features 11 lines in three divisions. Customers can transfer between all lines, except Atlantic City Rail Line, at the new Secaucus Junction station. (The Raritan Valley Line requires an additional transfer at Newark Penn Station):
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