Port Jervis, New York

Port Jervis is a citylocated in Orange County in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 8,860.

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City - Orange County - U.S. state - New York - 2000

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The City of Port Jervis is located where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. Port Jervis was a port on the Delaware and Hudson Canal and is also known as the "River City." The communities of Germantown (which is now actually Port Jervis' West End) and Cuddebackville are adjacent to Port Jervis, and Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvania face it across the respective state borders. The Orange County Town of Deerpark is to the north.

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New York - New Jersey - Pennsylvania - Montague, New Jersey - Matamoras, Pennsylvania - Deerpark

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The town is the last stop on the 95-mile-long commuter railroad line from Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City that is contracted to NJ Transit by the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company (the line itself continues on to Binghamton, but passenger service beyond Port Jervis was discontinued in 1971).

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Hoboken, New Jersey - New York City - NJ Transit - Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company - Binghamton - 1971

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