Powerhouse Promise: Unleash Potential of Jersey City Cultural Heritage Site
“2025 — The Year of the Powerhouse”
Powerhouse Promise, published in The Jersey Journal on Thursday, January 30, 2025 — available on newsstands today or online via subscription!
The battle for the historic Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse (erected 1906-1908; Robins & Oakman, architects) on the Jersey City waterfront began in the summer of 1999 and continues in 2025, with very little stabilization progress made in this 25+-year span of time.
Now that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is finally relocating its substation and electric power equipment from the Powerhouse site to a nearby lot (provided, to their benefit, by the City of Jersey City), a window of opportunity presents itself for City Hall — and City Hall alone — to make meaningful preservation strides.
The Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy believes that 2025 must be the year in which the Powerhouse is set on the long-awaited path of preservation. Join us as we kick off a new grassroots campaign for Jersey City’s greatest architectural monument!
The Powerhouse | Reena Rose Sibayan | Copyright 2025 The Jersey Journal/NJ.com
Above YouTube video: The original 1999 News12 New Jersey newscast on the Powerhouse!
Presenting the Leon Yost Powerhouse Photo Gallery:
Jersey City can look to other restored and adaptively reused industrial monuments and heritage sites throughout the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area + other major American and global regions and cities:
The Powerhouse Archives
