The Heights, Jersey City

Neighborhoods and thoroughfares

Central Avenue is one of Jersey City's 13 different neighborhood shopping districts. with more than 240 businesses serving the area. Pershing Field (named for General John J Pershing) is a memorial park in the center of the district that was built on a military training ground. It offers a green space, baseball fields, a swimming pool and ice-skating rink. The adjacent Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 has been preserved as a state designated wetland and park. Many stately Victorian and Edwardian homes distinguish the Heights, particularly along Summit Avenue and Sherman Place.

Transportation

An elevator at Congress Street and Paterson Plank Road descends to the 9th Street-Congress Street station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. and New York Ave are among the streets that run through the area.

History

The Heights was part of the colony of Pavonia, New Netherland, the superintendent of which was the American patriarch of the Van Vorst family. A Van Vorst House built in 1742 by the family (now on Palisade Avenue) is considered to be the oldest building in Hudson County. Summit Avenue, slightly to the west follows an Hackensack Indian trail that became the main road from the villages of Communipaw and Bergen and eventually connected to the Paterson and Hackensack Plank Roads.

E.R.V Wright was the first Mayor of Hudson City.

In the early 20th century, before Hollywood, the American motion picture industry was mainly based in New Jersey towns along the Hudson River. Chief among them was Fort Lee, which was the nation's first motion picture capital, with other early film studios headquartered in neighboring towns such as Jersey City.

Education

Jersey City Public Schools operates public schools in the Heights.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark operates area Catholic Schools. St. Anne School was located in Jersey City Heights, and opened in 1904. Its enrollment declined by 33 in 2011 and increased by 22 in 2012. James Carroll, a member of the Jersey City Police Department and a member of the school board, Carroll stated that the 2011 decline was due to parents being afraid that the school would close. In 2011, the archdiocese considered closing the school, but a fundraising generated sufficient money to keep it open.

Gallery

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References

General references

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