Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Bayonne, NJ

Bayonne is a city in Hudson County that was formed as a township on April 1, 1861, from portions of Bergen Township and reincorporated as a city on March 10, 1869.

The origin of the name Bayonne is disputed: some trace it to Bayonne, France, while others say the city was named for its location on the shores of two bays, Newark Bay and New York Bay.

Bayonne sits on the Bergen Neck peninsula between Newark Bay to the west, the Kill Van Kull to the south and New York Bay to the east, and it shares its only land border with Jersey City to the north.

The 2020 United States census counted 71,686 residents in Bayonne, making it New Jersey's 15th-most-populous municipality, an increase of 13.7% from 63,024 in 2010.

The 2020 census counted 27,867 households in Bayonne, and nearly half of the city's 11.22 square miles of total area is water, leaving just 5.82 square miles of land.

When the Bayonne Bridge opened in 1931 it had the world's longest steel arch main span, stretching 1,775 feet across the Kill Van Kull to Staten Island, and its deck was raised from 151 feet to 215 feet in a Navigation Clearance Project completed in 2017 so that larger ships could pass beneath it.

Stephen R. Gregg Park, opened in 1916 along the Newark Bay shoreline, is Bayonne's largest park at 97.5 acres.

Bayonne became one of the largest crude oil refining centers in the nation after Standard Oil of New Jersey established its refinery there in 1877, and the city was the scene of major refinery strikes in 1915 and 1916.

The Cape Liberty Cruise Port opened in 2004 on the site of the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne, where the United States Navy had operated the largest dry dock on the Eastern Seaboard during World War II.

Bayonne is home to the Tear of Grief, a 100-foot-high monument at the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor commemorating the victims of the September 11 attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.