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The Lincoln Tunnel opens
Lincoln Tunnel, Weehawken portal · Weehawken, New Jersey, United States · 1937-12-22
The first tube under the Hudson at midtown opened in 1937; the second followed in 1945 and the third in 1957.
The record
| Date | 1937-12-22 |
|---|---|
| Place | Lincoln Tunnel, Weehawken portal, Weehawken, New Jersey, United States |
| Coordinates | 40.762, -74.018 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | Local interest |
| Sources | Wikipedia |
| Added | 2026-08-14 · source: editors |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
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- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of United States, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
Check the licence before you reuse anything. A photograph being online, or being old, does not make it free; in most countries a 1960s press photograph is still in copyright.
Footage
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Time layers at this place
One place, several moments in time. This location has 14 recorded time layers between 1921 and 2007 — slide through them:
- 1921 — Nederlander Theatre
- 1924 — Al Hirschfeld Theatre
- 1927 — Majestic Theatre
- 1927 — St. James Theatre
- 1937 — The Lincoln Tunnel opens this page
- 1968 — The Theater at Madison Square Garden
- 1971 — The Fight of the Century
- 1982 — Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
- 2001 — 2001 NBA draft
- 2002 — 2002 NBA draft
- 2003 — 2003 NBA draft
- 2005 — 2005 NBA draft
- 2006 — 2006 NBA draft
- 2007 — 2007 NBA draft
Seeded by the editors. This entry was compiled by us from public reference works and is labelled as such, not presented as a reader’s contribution. Sources are listed on the entry. If you know more, or we have it wrong, tell us — corrections are published.
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Nearby in United States
- Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (1982)
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- Al Hirschfeld Theatre (1924)
- Samuel J. Friedman Theater (1925)
- Lena Horne Theatre (1926)
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre (1925)