The unifying of street numbering across the North Hudson County towns - Union City, Weehawken, West New York, North Bergen, and Guttenberg, went into effect June 1, 1940. The "add 44" rule for all of the above except Union City applies from that time. Prior to that time, there were two sets of numbers - one set, which began (at 1) in Weehawaken and extended up through WNY, Guttenberg and the northern section of North Bergen (the portions SW portion of NB being named streets). The other set, dating from the establishement of Union City in 1925, covered that town and ran from 1st to 49th. The latter corresponded to 5th street in Weehawken. Hence, add 44. The name changes that resulted from the consolidation of Union Hill and West Hoboken in 1925 were mostly named streets becoming numbers, with one set of exceptions - the northern end of Union Hill had numbered streets which corresponded to Weehawken's, but which were changed to fall in line with the new numbers for Union City - so 2nd-5th streets became 46th-49th streets, 15 years earlier in UC than in Weehawken! There was a bit of misalignment, which is why 1st st. in Weehawken had to become Cooper Place. Interesting. JWB -----Original Message----- From: njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:njhudson-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of njhudson-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:01 AM To: njhudson@rootsweb.com Subject: NJHUDSON Digest, Vol 4, Issue 34 Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:15:27 -0500 From: "CJ Lisa" <cjlisa@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] Query re street numbers in North Bergen To: <njhudson@rootsweb.com>, <AnnWicki@aol.com> Message-ID: <005d01c9acac$82fde700$30064c0c@lisame> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Union Hill and West Hoboken became Union City in 1925 and that was when most the address changes started taking place. Maybe NB was later, but I think most towns were affected -- Weehawken was I know and upper North Bergen because there even was changes that affected those towns. There is a woman that I know in town (I live in Ringwood now) who is 92 yrs old and who used to live in North Bergen up near Hudson Cty park -- and she told me about the addition of 44 (however I misquoted and wrote 40) I'll have to ask her what year that happened, but in UC it started after after the UC town charter. in 1925. I formerly lived on 24th & Summit Ave -- later 37th between Bergenline and Hudson Blvd and later yet in WNY by 62nd St and my father had a jewelry store in Journal Sq and then near the Hudson Burlesque in UC. My grandparents had an embroidery mfg. business and eventually my parents did as well. Claire