The Heights, Jersey City

The Heights or Jersey City Heights is a district in the north end of Jersey City, New Jersey, atop the New Jersey Palisades overlooking Hoboken to the east and Croxton in the Meadowlands to the west.[1][2]

Riverview-Fiske Park and the Heights
The former Public Service Building at Palisade Avenue and Ferry Street
Reservoir #3 adjacent to Pershing Field
Pershing Field Park entrance
Second Reformed Church, Summit Avenue

The southern border of The Heights is generally considered to be north of Bergen Arches and The Divided Highway, while Paterson Plank Road in Washington Park near Transfer Station is its main northern boundary. Its postal area ZIP code is 07307.

Neighborhoods and thoroughfares

Central Avenue is The Heights' primary commercial thoroughfare,[3][4] with more than 240 businesses serving the area.[5] 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.[6]

Transportation

An elevator at Congress Street and Paterson Plank Road descends to the 9th Street-Congress Street station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail.[6] Mountain Ave[7] and New York Ave are among the streets that run through the ara.[8]

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.[9][10]

E.R.V Wright was the first Mayor of Hudson City.[11]

Filming at the Pathé American studio in Jersey City Heights (1912)

The United States' motion picture industry originated in the early 20th century in towns along the Hudson River,[12] including Jersey City. Among the companies that were a part of this was the France-based Pathé, the largest film equipment and production company in the world, whose American factory and studio facility was established in The Heights in 1910. That building of still stands overlooking Paterson Plank Road. It also established the Eclectic Film Company as a subsidiary distribution company for both its American and European product. Although the Jersey City plant produced moderately popular comedies, dramas, and newsreels largely directed at the US market, Perils of Pauline was the first American-made Pathé effort to achieve worldwide success under the Eclectic banner.[13][14][15]

Education

Jersey City Public Schools operates public schools in the Heights.[16]

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark operates area Catholic Schools. St. Anne School was located in Jersey City Heights, and opened in 1904.[17] 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.[18] In 2011 the archdiocese considered closing the school, but a fundraising generated sufficient money to keep it open.[17] It closed in 2012.[18] That year the building housed the K-8 grades of the Hoboken Charter School on a temporary basis as the regular K-8 building of the charter school had a fire.[19]

See also

References

General references

Hudson County New Jersey Street Map. Hagstrom Map Company, Inc. 2008. ISBN 978-0-88097-763-0.

Inline citations
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  2. "Community". Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  3. "Jersey City Shopping Districts". Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  4. Central Avenue Special Improvement District
  5. "The Jersey City Heights Neighborhood History". www.jcheights.com. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  6. "GET NJ – The Heights Section of Jersey City". Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  7. "Hudson County 7311 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-17. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  8. "Hudson County 6671 straight line diagram" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 14, 2021.
  9. Olszewski, Anthony (2002). "From Before the Revolutionary War! Jersey City's Oldest House". City of Jersey City. Archived from the original on May 2, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  10. "2012 Jersey City Historic Preservation Month". The Jersey Journal. April 30, 2012. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  11. "NEW-JERSEY.; The City of Hudson". The New York Times. April 19, 1885. Archived from the original on December 13, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  12. "Fort Lee Film Commission  -  Fort Lee, NJ". Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  13. Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  14. "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
  15. Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
  16. "Search for Public School Districts: District Detail for Jersey City Public Schools". National Center for Education Statistics. 2020. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  17. Zeitlinger, Ron (2011-05-22). "Once doomed, St. Anne's School in Jersey City gets new life". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  18. Conte, Michaelangelo (2012-02-17). "Newark Archdiocese to close St. Anne's School in Jersey City, Mater Dei Academy in Kearny". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  19. Thorbourne, Ken (2012-01-18). "Fire-devastated Hoboken Charter School to reopen in Jersey City Heights". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved 2020-06-24.

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