Talk:The Heights, Jersey City

Streets in the Heights

• Ravine Avenue=County Route 662 (Hudson County, New Jersey)
• New York Avenue=County Route 671 (Hudson County, New Jersey)

Southern border

This article is about a neighborhood, so borders can be squishy (to use a tehnical term). I am a librarian in the local history department of the Jersey City Free Public Library. In doing research on this for a journalist, I have found that the southern border of the Heights, west of JFK Boulevard, is generally considered to be Newark Avenue - not 139. I don't have a citation to back this up - though once the article is published I guess that may change... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.211.97.242 (talk) 20:34, 13 May 2013 (UTC)

Uncited material in need of citations

I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 18:21, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Riverview-Fiske Park along Palisade and Ogden Avenues, is a neighborhood on the east side of the Palisades which offers views of Hoboken and the Manhattan skyline. The Schurman House, and the Van Vorst Farmhouse, (a stone building from 1742, one of the city's oldest) are located in the vicinity. Pohlmann's Hall at 154 Ogden Avenue received its federal historical designation in September 1985. Christ Hospital is south on Palisade Avenue.

Western Slope descending a cuesta from Kennedy Boulevard the overlooks Croxton in the Meadowlands. At the corner of Manhattan Avenue, in the Dr. Leonard J. Gordon Park is larger than life 1907 sculpture Buffalo and Bears by Solon Hannibal Borglum.

Transfer Station at the northern tip of the Heights section was once a spot for nightlife.

Transportation

...are the two streets that travel along the face of the cliffs. New Jersey Transit bus routes 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87 and 88, and serve the district locally to North Hudson and Journal Square while the 123 and 125 also continue to Port Authority Bus Terminal (PABT). New Jersey Transit 119 Bayonne to PABT via Journal Square and Central Avenue also serves the area.

History

The area comprising most of the Heights was once an independent municipality, known as Hudson City. It was incorporated as a town in 1852, and later into a city in 1855. The Town Hall, erected on Oakland Avenue, still stands today. Garrett D. Van Reipen was that city's first mayor. Hudson City, along with the Town of Bergen and the Township of Greenville, merged with Jersey City in 1873.

On March 27, 1868 Hudson City became the birthplace of its most famous namesake, the new Hudson City Savings Bank, when it received a special charter from the State of New Jersey Legislature to open in what was then the small City of Hudson, New Jersey. Hudson's mayor Garrett D. Van Reipen became the first President of the small bank, which was located on Newark Avenue.