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The Heights or Jersey City Heights is a neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey, located atop the New Jersey Palisades, along the west side of the Hudson River. It is bound by Paterson Plank Road on the north, Highway 139 on the south, Hoboken on the east, and the Hackensack River on the west. [1] [2] and Penhorn Creek on the west. [2]
A housing authority or ministry of housing is generally a governmental body that governs aspects of housing or (called in general "shelter" or "living spaces"), often providing subsidies and low rent or free public housing to qualified people.
The James M. Baxter Terrace was a public housing complex in Newark, New Jersey. Named after James M. Baxter, it was opened in 1941. It was closed and demolished in 2009 due to social and financial neglect. [1] [2] The housing was partially replaced in 2012 by 90 apartments known by the name of Baxter Park. [2] [3]
The Newkirk House [3] and Van Wagenen House remain, while the still-intact Sip Manor was moved to Westfield, New Jersey. [4] The square was created in 1923 when the city condemned and demolished the offices of the Jersey Journal, thus creating a broad intersection with Hudson Boulevard which itself had been widened in 1908. The newspaper built ...
Aerial view of Exchange Place in 2010 Jersey City 9/11 Memorial Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from Exchange Place. A high concentration of highrise office and residential buildings in the city are located in the district radiating from Exchange Place, which since the 1990s has overtaken Journal Square as Hudson County's major business district and become a major business center along the ...
The purpose of the new housing was to offer middle-income urban dwellers an opportunity to buy homes in a residential area with an "out of town" feel without the need for long commutes. In 1959 Jersey City Planning Commission rezoned the 42-acre (170,000 m 2) undeveloped industrial tract for residential use. Census figures for the city had ...
Central Avenue is a 12-block-long thoroughfare in the Heights neighborhood of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. [1] One of 13 shopping districts in the city, [ 2 ] it is designated County Route 663 for 1.60-mile (2.57 km) of its length.
30 Hudson Street, also known as Goldman Sachs Tower, is a 781 ft (238 m), 42-story building in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is the second tallest building in New Jersey. Completed in 2004, the tower was designed by César Pelli, and was the tallest building in the state for 14 years. It houses offices, a cafeteria, a health unit, and a full ...