Newark, New Jersey

“	A rum keg tapped at both ends.	”
—Benjamin Franklin

“	The Tollbooth State	”
—George Carlin

“	Only the Strong Survive	”
—Popular New Jersey T-shirt

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.

Locations

Weekend of 2024-11-04

Coordinates for 2010-04-16: 40.9526664, -74.2988682

In the garage of a house at the corner of Jacksonville Rd. and the Boulevard (??), in Pompton Lakes, Bergen County. Also, the A.C. geohash is close to the 40th parallel.

Coordinates for 2010-04-17: 40.2456688, -74.7655404

In a municipal building of some kind (school? library?) on Prospect St., in Ewing, Mercer County. Are they open on Saturday?

Coordinates for 2010-04-18: 40.8919619, -74.4373027

On Barton Rd. near Lake Dr., in Mountain Lakes, Morris County. Reachable and Speed Racer eligible.

Retrohash

The geohash for the date in the original comic (May 26, 2005) is reachable, in Mill Brook, Morris County. If you make an attempt, tell us about it here!

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
dieKatze88

Attempted geohashes

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Thursday, April 1: April Fools' Day Holy/Tron geohash!

Monday, March 22: Geo-passing-through.

Saturday, March 20: Geohashing and a walk in the park.

Monday, March 8: I was just here, too!

Thursday, March 4: Jevanyn has driven past the house a dozen times. But can I prove it?

Tuesday, March 2: Geohashing party of sorts at Friendly's in the Princeton area.

Sunday, February 28: An easy first geohash for dieKatze88 near Drew University.

Tuesday, February 22: Veterans Park, Trenton, near the entrance on Klockner Rd. Across from Steinart High School.

Saturday, February 13: Tried for a meetup at Woodbridge Mall.

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.

Archived geohashing expeditions for 2008 and 2009.

Links

[peeron map]

[Small Hash Inquiry Tool]

[Bing Maps] with Bird's Eye view, better idea of scale and finding paths through complicated terrain.

[Zillow] real estate valuation site, to find out 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.

Google Maps now has a bike trail layer, which is a good start.

This page is maintained by Jevanyn. Automatic updates are not desired.

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