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Jersey City Real Estate | Neighborhood Descriptions

Jersey City, NJ consists of 10 districts:  Bergen/Lafayette, Liberty State Park, McGinley Square, Hackensack Riverfront, The Waterfront, Historic Downtown, The Heights, Journal Square, West Side, and Greenville.  Although there are 10 districts, each district has its own appeal and affluent neighborhoods.  For instance, The Waterfront is home to the Paulus Hook neighborood, a very popular section of Jersey City.  Newport/Pavonia, another popular area with plenty of amenity features  is in the downtown and Waterfront district.  To an extent, each different neighborhood has a different aesthetic and architectural style.

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Downtown Jersey City:  Newport, Paulus Hook, and Exchange Place

Historic Downtown:  Hamilton Park, Grove Street, Harsimus Cove, and Van Vorst Park

The Heights:  Western Slope, and Central Avenue Shopping Area.

Journal Square:  West Bergen/Lincoln Park and the Hudson Mall

Bergen Lafayette:  Communipaw Avenue, the artery between West Side with Liberty State Park, Greenville, which features Port Liberte and other upscale residentail neighborhoods. 

Downtown Jersey City has many attractive areas of real estate.  Newport and Exchange Place are redeveloped waterfront areas consisting mostly of high rise residential buildings, hotels, retail, and office buildings.  Newport is a planned mixed use community, made up of residential high rises, condo buildings, office buildings (JP Morgan Chase Building), a marina, schools, and plenty of hotels, restaurants, fine dining, nightlife, and other entertainment.  Located only a 5 minute light rail trip to downtown Hoboken, residents can live away from the nightlife density in Hoboken to live in a quieter residential community in Newport.  Don’t forget about the Newport Center Mall, Movie Theater, PATH station, and many other convenient locations. 

Exchange Place, which was the first part of the area to redevelop, built over the old Jersey City Penn Station, is now full of new real estate and is New Jersey’s side of busy business.

Journal Square is in the midst of real estate rehabilitation.  Journal Square is going to be the next big area of Jersey City.  Redevelopment plans for residential towers and retail should relate to the same redevelopment as to what occurred over in Newport.  To the north of the square on Newark Avenue lies India Square, where you can find over 100 Indian ran businesses.  This area is one of the largest Indian neighborhoods in all of New Jersey.  Saint Peter’s College  is located in this section, just 10 blocks south of Journal Square in the McGinley Square section of Jersey City. 

The West Bergen of Jersey City houses very diverse neighborhoods including Lincoln Park / West Bergen as well as the Marion Section, Society Hill, and New Jersey City University.  On the West Side you will find many different ethnic businesses from Filipino to Indian to West Indian which line the West Side Avenue. 

If you are interested in relocation or real estate related material for any area of Jersey City, please contact us for a consultation or relocation package.  We have plenty of additonal information, including the areas of The Heights, Bergen-Lafayette, and Greenville.

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