Ho'boken

Ho'boken, a city in New Jersey, on the west bank of the Hudson River, adjacent to Jersey city, and opposite New York, with which it is connected by several steam-ferries. It is the terminus of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, and has a large shipping trade, especially in coal; iron-castings and lead-pencils are among the principal manufactures; and three lines of European steamships start from the port. The Stevens Institute of Technology here is one of the chief schools of its kind in the United States. Pop. (1880) 30,999; (1890) 43,648. The name of this city commemorates in the New World a village to the south-west of Antwerp, with a new fort and new docks.