Journal Square
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| Jersey City neighborhoods |
| Downtown |
| -Newport |
| -Exchange Place |
| -Paulus Hook |
| -WALDO |
| The Heights |
| -Croxton |
| -Western Slope |
| Journal Square |
| -Marion |
| -India Square |
| -Five Corners |
| West Side |
| -Lincoln Park/West Bergen |
| Greenville |
| -Port Liberté |
| Bergen/Lafayette |
Journal Square is an area of Jersey City, New Jersey near the offices of the Jersey Journal newspaper. The area was named after the newspaper. The area is undergoing redevelopment presently, having suffered from neglect for several decades.
The term "Journal Square" can refer to just the block in front of the Jersey Journal building, or to a larger area, or just to the Journal Square PATH station and Journal Square Transportation Center that serve the area.
Much of the area is on supports, as a hundred feet below there is a cutting that the PATH (and occasionally freight rail) runs through. In decades past, the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad ran through this area.
Saint Peter's College has its main campus a few blocks to the south.
The headquarters of the Port Authority Trans-Hudson system are located here, as well as several other Port Authority of New York and New Jersey facilities that were previously located at the World Trade Center.
The smallest definition of the area is the curve which John F. Kennedy Boulevard makes from Tonnele Avenue to Newark Avenue. The larger area is approximately bounded by Sip Avenue (which forms its south edge), Summit Avenue (which forms its east edge), Newark Avenue (which forms its north edge), and Tonnele Avenue (which forms its west edge).
The nearest highway is U.S. Route 1/9, several blocks north on Tonnele Avenue, and Interstate 78, nearly a mile southeast.
