Rate This City: Day 55 - Jersey City

[Child_Of_God]

I love going to liberty state park right across the river from manhattan, serene . Nice science museum, Pavonia Newport fit the shopping. Good pizza places. If I want a quick escape and no one to know where I am, I’ll get on the Path, book a hotel in JC and look at the ny skyline - order food. Walk around. Get on a water taxi or ferry , ride around.

I got to check out Liberty State Park
the next time I go back up there. I remember you telling me how nice it was.

 

[BigMan]

Lots of folks in my hs move to JC
Don’t know much about JC

 

[IVS]

My hometown. Watched it evolve over the years from youth to adulthood. Grew up with the best view in the city from my 13th Floor project window (9 heckman drive baeby)

Gentrification spreading. Downtown JC is yuppie heaven next to Hoboken.Supposed to be one of the most diverse cities in USA methinks. Some great Eats around courtesy of the diversity. PATH train runs all night...very convenient if you live near train station and party late in NYC.

It was nice being able to go work in NYC and live back in Jersey City as an adult after college. Lived in a loft in Journal Square.

Its still pockets of hood especially between Ocean and Bergen from The Hill to The Woods (Curries Woods) IMO. I go see the fam and see it still goes down round certain places.

Im a DMVer now though. My time in university made me love this area more than NY/NJ, and I got tired of NYC and switched to DC.

 

[KodeBlue]

I hung out there in and it JC reminds me of Brooklyn West. The PATH train was very convenient when trying to get to NYC. The halal food truck that stayed open damn near all night.
Its Crazy looking looking Down Christopher Columbus Drive seeing all the skyscrapers and realizing half the buildings that you're looking at are in a whole different state.

That being said, JC essentially functions as a NYC suburb, which it is.

7

 

[chineebai]

Reminds me of downtown brooklyn

 

[Phantum]

Lived here for huge part of my life and have seen it changed a lot. Depending on where you live you won't have a need for a car, everything you need will be pretty close and the PATH train runs 24/7.

Gentrification is spreading to all parts not deep in the hood, pretty soon that'll be gone too. Saying that it's still pretty diverse. Lot's of nightlife and restaurants in the area and being able to get into Manhattan in less than 15 minutes sometimes is a plus.

 

[Alvin]

they don't call it the 6th borough for nothing, on the come up as far as having it's own identity

 

[boriquaking]

Way more character than Hoboken (which is full of just white people)

Theres nightlife there for everyone.

Its still on the come up.

i voted 8.

 

[ISO]

This city has the most “utopian” demographics I’ve seen in the country.

35% white (20% non-Hispanic), 25% black, 28% Latino, 25% Asian.

Almost every major race/ethnicity represented equally.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

This city has the most “utopian” demographics I’ve seen in the country.

35% white (20% non-Hispanic), 25% black, 28% Latino, 25% Asian.

Almost every major race/ethnicity represented equally.

Yea Jersey City doesn’t get praised enough for its diversity. It’s black population is diverse also. If I ever open up a restaurant that’s dedicated to Haitian food that’s the first place I’d open it.


No competition




because there isn’t even 1 over there despite the good representation

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

This city has the most “utopian” demographics I’ve seen in the country.

35% white (20% non-Hispanic), 25% black, 28% Latino, 25% Asian.

Almost every major race/ethnicity represented equally.

That’s almost identical to the 2010 Oakland census except you swap the black & Latino percentages

I doubt that the 2010 census will look anything like the 2020 census though, the black population has declined while the white population increased

 

[UberEatsDriver]

That’s almost identical to the 2010 Oakland census except you swap the black & Latino percentages

I doubt that the 2010 census will look anything like the 2020 census though, the black population has declined while the white population increased

fukk em

 

[ISO]

That’s almost identical to the 2010 Oakland census except you swap the black & Latino percentages

I doubt that the 2010 census will look anything like the 2020 census though, the black population has declined while the white population increased

is gentrification in Oakland that bad?

Crazy y’all lost the Raiders and Warriors too.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

is gentrification in Oakland that bad?

Crazy y’all lost the Raiders and Warriors too.

bruh it’s the Bay Area.

shyt wack ass San Jose is one of the Most expensive cities in America

 

[FruitOfTheVale]

is gentrification in Oakland that bad?

Crazy y’all lost the Raiders and Warriors too.

Hell yeah it is, the 2010s was nothing but SF techies and the folks SF techies displaced moving into Oakland to save a buck. It's shocking how fast it changed, the version of the Town I came up in 15 years ago don't exist like that no more. That's not to say that a lot of Oakland neighborhoods don't feel more or less the same but even that's a stretch... They're playing hardball w/ the gentrification war tactics. They're building a rapid bus down International Blvd (East Oakland) that doesn't have any local service whatsoever, i.e. it skips mulitple neighborhoods and major intersections. It was pretty much built for the express purpose of killing existing lower-income businesses on International Blvd (during construction they completely eliminated business parking in a lot of sections for nearly 1.5 years and counting) and to make it safer and easier for gentrifiers to commute from the Flatlands to the new tech buildings in Downtown Oakland. Meanwhile, the city is doing absolutely nothing about the housing crisis and homeless camps grow bigger everyday. We've seen this movie before w/ Bayview and the MUNI lightrail extension in SF, it whitified HP and Bayview damn near OVERNIGHT.

Bus-only lanes drive fears of displacement in East Oakland

Although the project will bring faster, more reliable public transit, some locals are worried that because gentrification has hit Oakland so hard, this project will end up forcing them out of the city.

Better transit, but who’s it for?


….“My analysis is that they don't care about us,” says Buford. “They made plans but we weren't in those plans.”

The bus line was billed as a way to serve low income residents. But to Buford, it looked like it was designed to skip over the poor neighborhoods as quickly as possible.

“In order to do that you've got to fly by a whole lot of stops,” says Buford.

The BRT will replace almost all local bus service along International Boulevard, according to an email from AC Transit. Stations will be spaced roughly a third of a mile apart. Buford says the express bus will be most attractive for a new kind of resident: yuppies commuting to tech jobs.

“They're making this so that the people who need to move here from Silicon Valley won't have so far to move,” says Buford. “That's really what's going on, let's face it.”

Business owners say they were caught unawares

Under AC Transit’s original plans, the BRT line would have continued North from Downtown Oakland along Telegraph Avenue, terminating in Downtown Berkeley.

Berkeley residents and business owners rebelled, complaining the project would choke traffic and remove parking. After sitting through late nights of public commenting, the Berkeley City Council shot down the proposal in 2010. AC Transit settled on building just a part of the line, mostly serving East Oakland.

Unlike their well-organized counterparts to the North, the Oakland business owners who were reached for this story said they weren’t aware of AC Transit’s plans until they had already been approved by the city.