Cross-Hudson connectivity: inside UrbIN Networks' route

A new carrier-neutral dark fiber route across the Hudson is here, and it's changing how networks cross the river.

For decades, the Hudson River has been both a physical and digital barrier, particularly for organizations demanding high-speed, low-latency, and redundant connectivity between New Jersey and Manhattan. Now UrbIN Networks is rewriting the playbook with the first privately owned, carrier-neutral installation across the Hudson River in two decades.

Why the Hudson River crossing matters

With data volumes growing and demand from hyperscalers, trading firms, and data center operators surging, network diversity across the Hudson isn't a luxury. It's mission critical.

Yet the limited number of viable river crossings has created bottlenecks, over-utilization, and vulnerability to outages.

UrbIN Networks' route addresses this with:

• A buried, secured route to 165 Halsey Street
• A new Hudson River crossing through the Sandy-hardened PATH tunnel, the southernmost Hudson River crossing into Manhattan
• Two separate building entrances into 60 Hudson Street, one of the most connected buildings in the world, plus our own riser in the building
• 88,883 ns one-way optical fiber latency, 165 Halsey Street to 60 Hudson Street

The UrbIN Networks advantage

• Carrier-neutral, customer-controlled: Dark fiber by IRU or term lease, lit with your own equipment. No middlemen and no carrier lock-in. Resale is allowed.
• A route inside the PATH tunnel: Our crossing runs inside the Sandy-hardened PATH tunnel, a controlled corridor that is hard to replicate.
• Resilience engineered from the ground up: From two separate building entrances to 16-ton flood gates, the build is Sandy-hardened, future-ready, and security-first.
• Clean optical path: There are no splice points through the river crossing.
• Protection by design: We design new networks as rings, and we sell physical protection as a second, separately routed path. Before you sign, we name what your route shares and any segments we haven't surveyed.

Who benefits most?

• Financial institutions: Low latency and route diversity support trading and disaster recovery.
• Hyperscalers and cloud providers: A new, high-capacity path into 60 Hudson Street and beyond.
• Carriers and resellers: Wholesale-ready dark fiber, with resale allowed and our own riser in 60 Hudson.
• Enterprises and data centers: Private, secure dark fiber tailored to mission-critical use cases.

Building for the future

UrbIN Networks isn't just delivering fiber. It's delivering freedom, flexibility, and future-proof infrastructure across one of the most strategically significant corridors on the U.S. fiber map.

The Hudson River no longer has to be a bottleneck. It can be a bridge to better connectivity.

Contact our team to request a route map or to talk with a network advisor.