Editing Guttenberg, New Jersey (section)

==History==
{{Further|North Bergen}}
[[File:10.7.09GalaxyByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|left|A 2009 sign on [[Boulevard East]] advertising the town's 150th anniversary. In the background is one of the three towers of the Galaxy apartments.]]
Guttenberg was formerly a farm owned by William Cooper, sold in 1853 to a group of New Yorkers, who had formed the Weehawken Land and Ferry Association.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-kI4AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA199&lpg=RA1-PA199 ''Acts of the Eighty-Second Legislature of the State of New Jersey''], p. 199. Accessed November 12, 2019.</ref> Like nearby [[Union Hill, New Jersey|Union Hill]], it was subdivided and lots were sold mostly to Germans. The company ran two ferries, the ''Hultz'' and the ''Flora'', which crossed the Hudson from the landings at the foot of [[Bulls Ferry|Bulls Ferry Road]], [[Shadyside, Edgewater|Pleasant Valley]], [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee]], and [[Spring Street (Manhattan)|Spring Street]] in [[Manhattan]].

Guttenberg was formed as a town on March 9, 1859, from portions of [[North Bergen, New Jersey|North Bergen Township]], but remained as a part of the township that was not fully independent. Guttenberg became part of [[Union Township, Hudson County, New Jersey|Union Township]] when it was formed on February 28, 1861, and became fully independent as of April 1, 1878.<ref name=Story>Snyder, John P. [https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf ''The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606–1968''], Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146. Accessed April 24, 2012.</ref> The municipality takes its name from [[Johannes Gutenberg]], the inventor of the European version of the [[printing press]],<ref>[[Henry Gannett|Gannett, Henry]]. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA146 ''The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States''], p. 146. [[United States Government Printing Office]], 1905. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref> though other sources indicate that the name derives from "good village" in [[German language|German]].<ref>Hutchinson, Viola L. [http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/356/nj_place_names_origin.pdf#page=15 ''The Origin of New Jersey Place Names''], New Jersey Public Library Commission, May 1945. Accessed August 31, 2015.</ref><ref>Herman, Jennifer. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Tc4uZ2HBG2oC&pg=PA281 ''New Jersey Encyclopedia''], p. 281. State History Publications, 2008. {{ISBN|9781878592446}}. Accessed January 30, 2018. "Name is a German word for 'good village.'"</ref>

[[Galaxy Towers]], developed by [[Prudential Insurance]] Company, were built in the late 1970s on [[Boulevard East]]. The three octagonal skyscrapers rise {{convert|415|ft}} and contain 1,075 apartments.<ref>Rand, Ellen. [https://www.nytimes.com/1980/06/08/archives/new-jersey-weekly-new-jersey-housing-the-demise-of-a-luxury-complex.html "New Jersey Housing; The Demise of a Luxury Complex"], ''The New York Times'', June 8, 1980. Accessed November 12, 2019. "Guttenberg - When The Galaxy opened for occupancy some four years ago, it was touted as the "ultimate" in luxury living along the Palisades."</ref>