India Square

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Downtown

-Hamilton Park

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-WALDO

-Van Vorst Park

-Exchange Place

-Paulus Hook

-Port Liberté

The Heights

-Croxton

-Western Slope

Journal Square

-Marion

-India Square

-Five Corners

West Side

-Lincoln Park/West Bergen

-Society Hill

-Hackensack Waterfront

Greenville

Bergen/Lafayette

India Square also called Little India is a neighborhood in Jersey City, New Jersey. The neighborhood is centered around Newark Avenue between Tonnelle Avenue and JFK Boulevard, and is considered to be part of the larger Journal Square neighborhood. This area has been home to the largest outdoor Navratri festivities in New Jersey as well as several Hindu temples^[1]. This portion of Newark Avenue is lined with video stores, bodegas, clothing stores and restaurants and is one of the busier pedestrian areas of this part of the city, often stopping traffic for hours. According to the 2000 census, there were just under 13,000 Indians living in this 2 block stretch of Jersey City, many residing there illegally,up from the 3,000 in 1980^[2]. The stores and restaurants are frequented by a large number of the Indians in Jersey City as well as visitors from Journal Square and vegetarians.

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