Enos Jones Park plays host to the softball team. Just like in the real Jersey City, everyone is drunk while playing softball. The rear of PS 5 pretends to be the exterior of Mercy Hospital.
The Field’s Development project on Newark Avenue just west of Jersey Avenue is set to auction several units, according to the NY Times. The 76 unit low rise building, to be named The Saffron, will auction between 9 and 15 units to jump start traditional sales. The Saffron sits on what had been an empty […]
Tonight is the premiere of NBC’s Mercy, a hospital drama set in a fictional Jersey City hospital. Although the hospital interiors of the show are shot in a vacant Paterson hospital, many scenes from the pilot have been shot in and around downtown Jersey City. The drama focuses on three nurses. The show opens with […]
Newark Avenue, the long beleaguered shopping district in the downtown, is getting a new store: a convenience store. TwentyFour 7 is replacing Gas, a men’s boutique store that had a shelf life of about three weeks. Don’t tell 7-Eleven corporate though, because the store’s signage looks remarkably similar. Across the street, adjacent to the former […]
Jersey Journal blogs Hoboken Now and Hudson County Now recently received a facelift. The previously cumbersome design has been replaced with a more modern look and feel, and the biggest change has been converting the byline’s into links, allowing users to find pots by particular reporters, just like a real blog. Also more prominent are […]
Tomorrow is the not-yet- getting-you-out- of-work- holiday, Park(ing) Day where intrepid urbanites turn a parking space into a bit of park space. Jersey City is getting its own 120 square feet of heaven tomorrow at Newark Avenue and Baldwin. The Jersey City Independent has a bit on all that or read more at ParkingDayNYC.com.
Crystal Point, the luxury residential tower on the tip of Second Street is nearing completion of its exterior work. When the tower was originally planned, the asking price was one of the highest in downtown Jersey City; the assurance of unobstructed views more or less in perpetuity had helped bolster the building’s prospects. Two sides […]
One of the long vacant retail spaces in the base of the Waldo Lofts on Second Street is finally filling up. K9dergarten, a dog day care and boarding facility is setting up shop offering the usual in puppy pampering for absentee moms and dads.
An overview of the project from Grand Street looking south towards Gulls Cove The western side of the building. The low rise section of the building along Grand Street The meeting of the low rise segment and the taller section of the tower. The corner of Marin and Grand Windows are being installed at the […]
