Newark, New Jersey

Scranton, PA	Newburgh, NY	Danbury, CT
Allentown, PA	Newark	New York City
Philadelphia, PA	Atlantic City	39,-73
Today's location: not yet announced

The Newark graticule is at 40 N, -74 W. This may be the most populous graticule in the United States, with a population in the neighborhood of 7 million people. It includes almost the entire northern half of New Jersey, the most densely populated state (Census), as well as Staten Island, western sections of Brooklyn and lower Manhattan in New York, and a part of Pennsylvania northeast of Philadelphia. In addition, other than Raritan Bay, there are no large sections of water.

Thanks to Meteorswarm, we have a Facebook group for the "North Jersey" graticule. Meet-ups can be coordinated here or there.

Daily Locations

Coordinates for 2010-02-05: 40.8650992, -74.1184195

In or near a factory building at the intersection of Jefferson Street and 1st Street in Passaic, Passaic County.

Alternate location: Dundee Park, a few blocks east of the hashpoint, along the Hackensack River.

Coordinates for 2010-02-06: 40.6074741, -74.9902612

On the driveway leading up to a house in Union Township, Hunterdon County.

Coordinates for 2010-02-07: 40.7696906, -74.1443701

A tree on Beech Street in front of Lincoln Elementary School, in Kearny, Hudson County.

Bonus

On a special note, the geohashes are closely clustered this weekend, with Saturday's NYC's geohash just over the bridge in Brooklyn. Special credit for anyone that does a Passaic-Brooklyn-Kearny rally in the shortest time!

Links

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[Bing Maps (with Bird's Eye view)]

[Zillow] real estate valuation site so know if it's private property / a rough neighborhood / both.

[NJ Transit] for public transportation geohashes

And of course [Wikipedia] to find out which township/borough/county a geohash is in :-)

Wanted: a good bike-map website. NJ Bike Map.com is okay but doesn't include a lot of local bike trails.

Cities in this Graticule

New Jersey	New York	Pennsylvania
Newark	Staten Island	New Hope
Jersey City	Lower Manhattan	Levittown
New Brunswick	Parts of Brooklyn	Langhorne
Trenton

Local Geohashers

• Madalis
• bjimba
• krip
• trntr
• TorsionalMetric
• Direwulf
• Jevanyn
• LangleyLGLF (When @Rutgers)
• Esteban
• Science Works!
• sve
• Zubenelgenubi
• Mike
• darko
• jimpoz
• RminusQ
• Brandon 20px and his father
• GISninja
• BlastOButter42, but probably only if it's near the city and New York's isn't closer
• AlexF
• Knitting Duck
• Flashbullzeye
• Kyukket

Attempted geohashes

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• Monday, February 1: A chilly evening geohash, but only two towns from home for Jevanyn.

• Saturday, January 23: Saturday's geohash was a walk in the park, literally!

• Tuesday, January 5: Jevanyn tried for a birthday geohash with his new GPS, but the location was not reachable.

Earlier geohashing expeditions have been archived here and here.