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

For 2024-05-17: 40.8436556, -74.0066635

(11/5) Today's location is ... interesting. The geohash is next to a parking lot in a large complex of buildings, off Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, Essex County. Some look like school buildings, while others suggest "penitentiary". We have parking lots that are fenced off, one of the more prison-y buildings is under demolition, and there are high fences with razor wire. All together, it looks like a Shadowrun module. The hash should be accessible, as it's next to a parking lot near the entrance to the complex.

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 -- 2009

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• Saturday, October 24: Knitting Duck and Flashbullzeye meet up at Parsippany High School, and amuse/confuse some teenagers.

• Saturday, October 17: Within a quarter mile, the closest to a Couch Potato geohash that Zubenelgenubi is likely to see.

• Thursday, October 15: Getting there was easy. Getting back, not so much.

• Saturday, October 10: I don't know why I thought one hour was enough time to find a geohash in a swamp. Even in Woodbridge.

• Saturday, September 19: Jevanyn shanghai'ed his mate Kyukket to a geohash in Pluckemin, on the way to a D&D game on Talk like a Pirate day.

• Saturday, September 12: Zubenelgenubi is unfazed by light rain but forgets batteries.

• Thursday, August 20: Two bicycle geohashes in one week was too good to be true....

• Tuesday, August 18: Jevanyn makes a bicycle geohash

• Thursday, July 16: Jevanyn has a weird expedition to Shades of Death Road.

• Saturday, July 11: Zubenelgenubi visits the geohash corral.

• Friday, July 3: Zubenelgenubi decides not to trespass where guns are being fired.

• Sunday, June 28: Knitting Duck encounters win (and swarms of mosquitos raptors) in Lincoln Park, NJ.

• Friday, June 26: Knitting Duck encounters fail in Denville, NJ.

• Saturday, June 6: Jevanyn reminisces about his hometown.

• Tuesday, June 2: The geohash is only a couple of miles from Jevanyn's house, so he's going to try to bike there, if the weather cooperates.

• Saturday, May 16: Zubenelgenubi stops near a quiet hash in the woods.

• Monday, May 11: Jevanyn planned on a bicycle geohash 7 miles from work, but he didn't plan on getting squished by traffic on the way there.

• Saturday, May 2: Avish said no one was there in the middle of Route 17 in Paramus.

• Sunday, April 26: Jevanyn is on the wrong side of the tracks in White House Station.

• Tuesday, April 14: GISninja planned to be there, but not to jump like Jenny did.

• Saturday, April 11 Jevanyn rode to the geohash on his bike, in the rain.

• Wednesday, March 4 No GPS! No map! No directions! (bzzzt) No camera?

• Saturday, February 28 Jevanyn and his family took a trip to Hightstown to look for buried treasure! Aaaarh!

• Friday, February 20 In a parking lot in Paramus. Brandon braved rush hour traffic to make it there.

• Thursday, February 19 Jevanyn couldn't resist a geohash this close to home.

• Wednesday, February 18 Someone's front yard in White House Station, New Jersey. Brandon dragged his father along despite the freezing rain for their first geohash.

• Saturday, February 14 The geohash was in a house in Nutley. No expedition, just a lolhouse.

• Saturday, January 31 A new geohasher, RminusQ, does the Speed Racer thing on a suburban street in Oakland.

• Saturday, January 17 A geohashing-inspired location for an annual nature hike.

2008 geohashing expeditions have been archived.