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  2. The Heights, Jersey City - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Harsimus Stem Embankment - Wikipedia

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    Atop embankment at eastern end Retaining wall Stone support pier of viaduct which carried the line westward to what is now Journal Square. The Harsimus Stem Embankment, also called Sixth Street Embankment, is a half-mile-long historic railroad embankment, disused and largely overgrown with foliage, in the heart of the historic downtown of Jersey City, New Jersey in the United States.

  4. Sixth Avenue - Wikipedia

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    The avenue's official name was changed to Avenue of the Americas in 1945 by the City Council, at the behest of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, [25] who signed the bill into law on October 2, 1945. [26] The intent was to honor "Pan-American ideals and principles" [ 27 ] and the nations of Central and South America, and to encourage those countries to ...

  5. Jersey City, New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    Jersey City is home to New Jersey City University and Saint Peter's University. [287] [288] Hudson County Community College is a junior college located in the Journal Square area offering courses to help students transition into a larger university. [289] The Newark-based New Jersey Institute of Technology has an annex at 101 Hudson Street.

  6. Communipaw - Wikipedia

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    Communipaw is a neighborhood in Jersey City in Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [2] It is located west of Liberty State Park and east of Bergen Hill, [3] [4] and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America.

  7. Hamilton Park, Jersey City - Wikipedia

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    Roughly bounded by Brunswick, Grove, 6th, and 9th Streets, Jersey City, New Jersey Coordinates 40°43′39″N 74°2′42″W  /  40.72750°N 74.04500°W  / 40.72750; -74

  8. Journal Square - Wikipedia

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    The Square was named for the Jersey Journal. The Labor Bank Building at 26 Journal Square was the city's first skyscraper.. Prior to its development as a commercial district Journal Square was the site of many farmhouses and manors belonging to descendants of the original settlers of Bergen, the first chartered municipality in the state settled in 1660 and located just south at Bergen Square.

  9. Exchange Place, Jersey City - Wikipedia

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    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 ...