High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Weehawken is a township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 13,501. Weehawken is part of the New York metropolitan area. Situated on the western shore of the Hudson River, along the southern end of the New Jersey Palisades, and across from Midtown Manhattan, Weehawken is the location of the western terminus of the Lincoln Tunnel.