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Light Horse Tavern is a restaurant located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Restored from an 1850s tavern, the building served as a speakeasy during Prohibition in the United States. Founders Bill Gray and Ron Smith named the restaurant after Henry Lee III, known as "Light Horse Harry", a historical figure from the American Revolution. Its first ...
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 White Mana in Jersey City White Mana , located at 470 Tonnele Avenue ( 40°44′50″N 74°3′42″W / 40.74722°N 74.06167°W / 40.74722; -74.06167 ) [ 2 ] in the Western Slope neighborhood of Jersey City was the first White Manna to open, and consists of the original 1939 World's Fair building
View of the waterfront of Downtown Jersey City, dubbed Wall Street West, [1] at sunset View of Downtown Jersey City from Liberty State Park View of Downtown focused around the Goldman Sachs Tower. Downtown is an area of Jersey City, New Jersey, which includes the Historic Downtown and the Waterfront.
The neighborhood for many years was considered the city's "Little Italy" neighborhood. Brunswick Street, between 1st and 10th Streets was once full of merchants and nicknamed "Bushel Avenue". [2] [3] [4] St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church at 457 Monmouth St. received its historic designation on March 22, 2004.
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.
These include Jersey City Art & Studio Tour (JCAST), a city-sponsored visual art showcase founded in 1990, [268] Art Fair 14C, a non-profit juried exhibition for New Jersey artists and New Jersey's largest visual arts event, [269] [270] and Your Move Modern Dance Festival, which was founded in 2010 and continues to be produced by Art House ...
Map showing District 2 in 1872. The Horseshoe section of Jersey City, New Jersey, was the second ward, and was the home of the immigrants, tenements, and taverns. [1] The Republican-controlled Legislature gerrymandered the district in 1871 to concentrate and isolate Democratic, and mostly Catholic, votes, thus preserving Republican dominance in the rest of the city. [2]