Flowers for Weehawken, NJ

Weehawken is a small Hudson County township stacked on two levels. Up top runs the Palisades ridge along Boulevard East, where the Manhattan skyline sits directly across the river and the uptown blocks gather around Hamilton Park and the Burr-Hamilton duel site. Below the cliffs are the old low-lying Shades near the Lincoln Tunnel helix and, further out on reclaimed land, the newer waterfront at Lincoln Harbor and along the Avenue at Port Imperial. A single ZIP, 07086, covers all of it, which makes Weehawken deceptively easy to address — and easy to address wrongly.

Precision about the address matters more here than the size of the town suggests, because Weehawken's best-known names are areas rather than doors. Lincoln Harbor is a district: the township's Lincoln Harbor Park at Port Imperial Boulevard and Harbor Boulevard is a different place from the Sheraton Lincoln Harbor Hotel at 500 Harbor Boulevard, and neither substitutes for the other. Port Imperial is both a neighborhood and the name of the NY Waterway terminal at 4800 Avenue at Port Imperial — a recipient who says they are "by Port Imperial" is usually describing a nearby home or hotel, not the boat. Get the street address and the unit before you order, not after the driver calls.

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