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Newport's approved master Redevelopment Plan contains an 'as-of-right' entitlement to build 1,200 hotel rooms. A 187-room hotel known as the Courtyard by Marriott Jersey City-Newport opened south of Newport in 2000. A 429-room full-service hotel known as the Westin Newport, Jersey City opened in 2009. [12]
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 ...
Jersey City, New Jersey – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race. Race / Ethnicity (NH = Non-Hispanic) Pop 1990 [204] Pop 2000 [205] Pop 2010 [206] Pop ...
City or town Description 1: Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel: Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel: August 23, 1977 (#77000842) January 25, 1979: Boardwalk and Ohio Aves. Atlantic City: Imploded on January 4, 1979. [8] 2: Traymore Hotel: Traymore Hotel
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]
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.
The Marion Section was laid out in the 1870s and was developed in the early 20th century. The name is speculated to have come from either the old Marion Hotel or the founders of a watch company located near the city line. Marion Junction, an important rail junction in the 19th century is nearby.
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 ...