Editing Weehawken, New Jersey (section)

==Media and culture==
[[File:Weehawken Museum.jpg|thumb|Original town hall at foot of [[Shippen Street]] steps undergoing renovation and transformation to local history museum]]
Weehawken is located within the [[Media in New York City|New York media market]]. ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'' was a 157-year-old local daily paper covering news in  [[Hudson County, New Jersey|Hudson County]] that ceased online and print publication in February 2025.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tully |first=Tracey |date=2025-02-01 |title=A Storied Newspaper Prepares to Print Its Own Obituary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/nyregion/new-jersey-star-ledger-prints-final-edition.html |access-date=2025-02-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Local weeklies include the free bilingual paper, ''Hudson Dispatch Weekly'',<ref>''Hudson Dispatch Weekly''. May 13, 2010</ref> (named for the former daily ''[[Hudson Dispatch]]''),<ref>Good, Philip. [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/27/nyregion/recalling-the-glory-days-of-the-hudson-dispatch.html?pagewanted=1 "Recalling the Glory Days of The Hudson Dispatch"]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 27, 1991. Accessed December 29, 2016.</ref> the Spanish language ''El Especialito,''<ref>[http://www.elespecial.com/ El Especial's official website]</ref> and the ''[[River View Observer]]''.  ''[[The Hudson Reporter]]'' and the ''[[Weehawken Reporter]]'' ceased publication in January 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heinis |first=John |date=2023-01-20 |title=Hudson Reporter abruptly closing after 40 years of local news reporting |url=https://hudsoncountyview.com/hudson-reporter-abruptly-closing-after-40-years-of-local-news-reporting/ |access-date=2025-02-05 |website=Hudson County View |language=en}}</ref>

The ''Weehawken Sequence'', an early 20th-century series of approximately 100 oil sketches by local artist [[John Marin]], who worked in the city, is considered among, if not the first, abstract paintings done by an American artist. The sketches, which blend aspects of [[Impressionism]], [[Fauvism]] and [[Cubism]], have been compared to the work of [[Jackson Pollock]].<ref>[[Roberta Smith|Smith, Roberta]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/arts/design/18galleries-JOHNMARIN_RVW.html "John Marin: 'The Weehawken Sequence'"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 17, 2011. Accessed January 4, 2013.</ref>

The Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to build a world-class [[performing arts center]] on the waterfront. Since 2004, it has presented both indoor and outdoor events at [[Lincoln Harbor (HBLR station)|Lincoln Harbor]].<ref>[http://www.hrpac.org/welcome.htm Welcome] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726160553/http://www.hrpac.org/welcome.htm |date=July 26, 2011 }}, Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center. Accessed July 8, 2011.</ref>

===In popular culture===
The name and the place have inspired mention in multiple works of popular culture.

*In 2014, the [[Fox Channel]] animated television series, ''[[Futurama]]'', Weehawken is the home of the former DOOP headquarters.<ref>[http://www.weehawkenhistory.org/view_item.php?id=88248&back=0&category=Fiction Weehawken on Futurama], Weehawken Time Machine. Accessed July 9, 2014.</ref> In visual art, Weehawken is the subject of the American painter [[Edward Hopper]]'s ''[[East Wind Over Weehawken]]''.<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.northjersey.com/arts-and-entertainment/edward-hopper-painting-sells-for-over-40m-1.649009 "Edward Hopper's 'East Wind Over Weehawken' sells for over $40M"], ''[[The Record (North Jersey)|The Record]]'', December 5, 2013. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Edward Hopper's "East Wind Over Weehawken" has sold for $40.5&nbsp;million – an auction record for the artist. The 1934 work depicts a streetscape of the New Jersey city across the Hudson River from New York."</ref> 
*The [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] musical ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'' includes a scene depicting the duel between [[Aaron Burr]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]], as well as the duel between [[Philip Hamilton|Phillip Hamilton]] and [[George Eacker]].<ref>Hyman, Dylan. [http://www.kcra.com/article/burr-hamilton-duel-a-look-back/10288651 "Burr-Hamilton Duel: A look back"], [[KCRA-TV]], July 11, 2017. Accessed December 10, 2017. "It was 213 years ago that longtime rivals Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton met for the final time in Weehawken, New Jersey for a duel that would go in the history books, and eventually make its way to the Broadway stage.... Dramatized in the song "The World Was Wide Enough" from the 'Hamilton' musical, Burr sings about becoming a villain in Hamilton's history. Following the duel, Burr's political reputation never recovered."</ref>
*In 1980, Italian science fiction/horror film ''[[Contamination (film)|Contamination]]'' features an [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian]] home on the corner of [[Boulevard East]] and 46th Street, in the scene in which a disgraced former astronaut is visited by the colonel who disgraced him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pics.imcdb.org/0is514/contamination23jh2.460.jpg|title=Still shot of the corner of East Boulevard and 46th Street, in Weehawken, NJ, from the film ''Contamination'' (Luigi Cozzi, 1980).}}</ref>
* In the 1970s and early 1980s, jazz composer and pianist [[Thelonious Monk]] lived during his final decade until his death in 1982 in a [[Modernist architecture|modernist]] home at 63 Kingswood Road owned by Jazz patron and heiress [[Pannonica de Koenigswarter]]—which she bought from film director [[Josef von Sternberg]] and later dubbed "the Mad Pad" and "the Cathouse."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/370253345|title=Ian "Marvin" Graye's Reviews - Nica's Dream: The Life and Legend of the Jazz Baroness|author=Kastin, David|date=16 July 2012}}</ref>
* In [[Dr. Seuss]]' 1940 children's book ''[[Horton Hatches the Egg]]'', Horton the Elephant visits Weehawken while he is in the circus, and in Dr. Seuss's ''[[The Lorax]]'', the Onceler gives directions to the land of the Truffula trees that include "...turn left at Weehawken."<ref>Lathem, Edward Connery. [https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/digital/collections/books/ocm45408191/ocm45408191.html#W ''Who's Who & What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss''], [[Dartmouth College]]. Accessed April 29, 2021. "[1] Among the cities at which the Circus Show exhibited Horton — in ''Horton Hatches the Egg'' [2] Place cited by the Once-ler in giving directions to his relatives for finding their way to him — in ''The Lorax.''"</ref> 
* In the [[Apple TV+]] animated musical, [[Central Park (TV series)|''Central Park'']], a rap about Weehawken recorded by [[Daveed Diggs]] is sung by Helen, one of the characters, who is from there.<ref>West, Teri. [https://www.nj.com/hudson/2021/03/daveed-diggs-raps-an-ode-to-weehawken-in-new-central-park-season.html "Daveed Diggs raps an ode to Weehawken in new ''Central Park'' season"], ''[[The Jersey Journal]]'', March 19, 2021. Accessed April 29, 2021. "The streets of Weehawken are humming with that shyly prideful feeling you get when catapulted into sudden fame.... Last week, the anthem arrived. It's in cartoon form and rapped by actor Daveed Diggs, voicing a grey-haired TV character boasting about her hometown. It's called 'Weehawken Rap,' and Apple TV+ debuted it online as a preview for the upcoming season of ''Central Park.''"</ref>