New York City Jersey and Midtown Manhattan, is the busiest vehicular tunnel in the world. The tunnel was built instead of a bridge to allow unfettered passage of large passenger and cargo ships that sailed through New York Harbor and up the Hudson River to Manhattan's piers. The Holland Tunnel, connecting Lower Manhattan to Jersey City, New Jersey, was the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel when it opened in 1927. The Queens-Midtown Tunnel, built to relieve congestion on the bridges connecting Manhattan with Queens and Brooklyn, was the largest non-federal project in its time when it was completed in 1940. President Franklin
West New York, New Jersey Bus Station, the Newport Centre and other local destinations. The county's most frequent route for dollar buses, jitneys operate along Bergenline Avenue as frequently as one bus every minute. The closest airport in New Jersey with scheduled passenger service is Newark Liberty International Airport, located away in Newark / Elizabeth. New York City's LaGuardia Airport is away in Flushing, Queens via the Lincoln Tunnel. West New York is located within the New York media market, with most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. "The Jersey Journal" is a local daily paper based in Jersey City. Local weeklies