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Jersey City, New Jersey has a bad rap as dirty and crime-ridden (especially if you listen to New Yorkers). It doesn't deserve to be maligned in such a way. We, the real estate agents of Jersey City, NJ, have set out to dispel the misconceptions by presenting you with this webpage chock full of helpful information on our delightful city. So before you go ahead and buy Clarkson real estate in Toronto, give this site a read through. You never know - when you're finished you might like it so much that you end up buying real estate here instead.
Jersey City, New Jersey: Not Just That Place Across From Manhattan
Jersey City occupies approximately 15 square miles of land - the smallest land area of the 100 biggest cities in America - along the Hudson River in Hudson County, New Jersey. It is bordered by the cities of Hoboken, Bayonne, Kearney, Newark, and Union City on the New Jersey side and faces the island of Manhattan in New York City across the river. Jersey City's population of 242,000 makes it the second largest city in the state of New Jersey. Due to the high population density over 40% of residents take public buses, trains, and ferries instead of owning a vehicle, which is the second highest percentage in the nation for larger cities.
Though many of Jersey City, NJ's residents commute to New York for work, Jersey City has many job opportunities in its own right. The city is a center for industry, manufacturing, commercial ventures, and shipping. Its busy port and its connections to major rail lines and highways make it an ideal location for distribution centers. Factories in Jersey City refine oil, manufacture chemical compounds, and produce many kinds of retail products from electronics to clothing and its many office towers provide work space to the headquarters staff who oversee them.
Jersey City, NJ is a training ground for some of tomorrow's top youth. Two of its public schools, Academy I Middle School and Dr. Ronald E. MacNair High School rank consistently high on lists of top schools in the state and in the country and offer enrichment programs for gifted students. Jersey City has several post-secondary institutions including Jersey City University and Hudson County Community College, but more importantly has easy access to top schools in New York City such as NYU and Columbia.
Far from having nothing of interest about it other than being across the river from New York City, Jersey City, New Jersey has many famous or unusual landmarks. The Liberty Science Center has the original Hoberman Sphere, the Katyn Memorial in Exchange Place is the first American memorial to the massacre of Polish officers in the Katyn forest, and the Colgate Clock, with a face 50 ft in diameter, is the world's largest clock.
Neighborhoods and Housing in Jersey City, NJ
Many people prefer to live in Jersey City, New Jersey because the cost of living there is cheaper than it is in Manhattan. It is still high when compared to the U.S. average however, about 134.1 to the average of 100. This translates into average prices of around $450,000 for a detached home, $434,000 for a townhouse, and $439,000 for a condo, while the average rent is approximately $985 per month.
Obviously which neighborhood in Jersey City, NJ you choose to buy into will greatly effect the price of the property. Neighborhoods are generally fairly homogenous when it comes to the type of housing present within them as well. For instance, the newly redeveloped waterfront neighborhoods of Exchange Place and Newport are mostly condo towers and apartment buildings. Historic districts like Hamilton Park and Harsimus Cove are lined with old brownstones, while Jersey City Heights has more middle class Edwardian and Victorian duplexes and triplexes. The more extreme ends of the socioeconomic spectrum are represented by the gated waterfront community Port Liberte, with its expensive single family homes, and the cheap apartments and abandoned buildings of the working class district of Greenville.
Contact a Jersey City, NJ Real Estate Agent
So, what do you think? Hardly deserving of the bad rap, isn't it? We knew you would agree. What about your plans? Have they changed? If they have, crumple up that Toronto housing brochure you've got there and pick up the phone instead. You'll find the appropriate number to dial (the number for a Jersey City, New Jersey real estate agent) on the contact page of this website. Simply call it and he or she will take it from there. Questions, listings, open houses, our real estate agents can help you with it all and pretty soon you'll be living in your new favorite city: Jersey City, New Jersey.
