Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Guttenberg, NJ

Guttenberg is a town in northern Hudson County, New Jersey, perched atop the Hudson Palisades directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Guttenberg was formed as a town on March 9, 1859, from portions of North Bergen Township, and it became fully independent on April 1, 1878.

The town takes its name from Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the European version of the movable-type printing press.

Guttenberg began as a farm owned by William Cooper that was sold in 1853 to the Weehawken Land and Ferry Association, which subdivided it into lots sold mostly to German immigrants and ran ferries across the Hudson.

In the 2020 Census, Guttenberg was the most densely populated incorporated municipality in the United States, with 57,116 inhabitants per square mile of land area, and it ranks among the most densely populated municipalities in the world.

The 2020 census counted 12,017 people in Guttenberg, up from 11,176 in 2010, and the town contained 4,920 households.

Guttenberg covers just 0.24 square miles in total, of which only 0.19 square miles is land, making it one of the smallest municipalities in New Jersey; it is only four blocks long north to south and takes less than a minute to drive through.

The Galaxy Towers, a trio of octagonal residential skyscrapers on Boulevard East rising 415 feet and containing 1,075 apartments, were built by the Prudential Insurance Company in the late 1970s, and as of the 2010 census almost one-fifth of the town's entire population lived in them.

Bergenline Avenue, the commercial corridor of North Hudson known as the heart of "Havana on the Hudson," runs north and south through the town.

Portions of Guttenberg form part of a state Urban Enterprise Zone established in 1996, where shoppers at eligible merchants pay a reduced sales tax rate of 3.3125%, half the statewide rate.