Jersey City

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About Jersey City

Jersey City is the second-largest city in New Jersey, set on a peninsula across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. Dutch settlers established Pavonia here in the 1630s, and the city later grew as a railroad terminal and port, the place where millions of immigrants passed from Ellis Island onto trains heading west. Its historic Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal still stands in Liberty State Park.

Today Jersey City has nearly 300,000 residents and one of the most diverse populations in the country. Its waterfront has transformed into a forest of glass towers, earning it the nickname Wall Street West, while neighborhoods like Paulus Hook, Hamilton Park and the Heights keep their brownstones and row houses. Journal Square and India Square in the city's center are known for food from around the world.

The views of Manhattan are the city's signature. The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs for miles along the river, Exchange Place looks straight across at One World Trade Center, and Liberty State Park offers ferries to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, along with the Liberty Science Center. The Empty Sky Memorial honors New Jersey residents lost on September 11.

Best seasonMay to October for the waterfront walkway, ferries and outdoor dining.

Ideal stayOne to two days for Liberty State Park, the Science Center, the waterfront and a few neighborhoods.

ArrivingNewark Airport is about 20 minutes away; PATH trains reach Manhattan in under 10 minutes.

Exploring Jersey City: 12 Must-See Spots

Parks 2

Liberty State Park

Opened for the nation's Bicentennial in 1976 on former rail yards, Liberty State Park stretches along Upper New York Bay with some...

Hudson River Waterfront Walkway

This continuous public path traces the New Jersey shore of the Hudson, and its Jersey City stretch is among the most rewarding. St...

Viewpoints 1

Riverview-Fisk Park

Perched on the edge of the Palisades cliff in the Jersey City Heights neighborhood, this park offers one of the best free overlook...

Landmarks 2

Empty Sky Memorial

New Jersey's official memorial to the September 11, 2001 attacks stands in Liberty State Park, directly across the water from the...

Colgate Clock

Facing Manhattan from the Jersey City waterfront, this enormous octagonal clock has been a harbor landmark since the 1920s, when i...

History 1

Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal

Between the 1890s and 1950s, millions of newly arrived immigrants left Ellis Island by ferry and stepped into this red-brick termi...

Museums 1

Liberty Science Center

One of the largest science museums in the region, Liberty Science Center sits inside Liberty State Park and has welcomed curious v...

Arts 2

Mana Contemporary

Set in a hulking former industrial complex on Newark Avenue, Mana Contemporary has become one of the largest art centers in the Ne...

Loew's Jersey Theatre

Opened in 1929 in Journal Square, the Loew's Jersey was one of the five Wonder Theatres built around New York to showcase films wi...

Neighborhoods 2

Exchange Place

Jersey City's financial district clusters around Exchange Place, where glass office towers rise from the old Paulus Hook waterfron...

Hamilton Park

Surrounded by handsome nineteenth-century brownstones and row houses, Hamilton Park is the leafy heart of one of downtown Jersey C...

Food and Drink 1

Newark Avenue and India Square

Along Newark Avenue near Journal Square, India Square is one of the largest Indian communities in North America and a delicious de...

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