The Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy partnered with the Journal Square Community Association for the Journal Square Walking Tour on Saturday, May 16, 2026 — an event that turned out being a picture-perfect day for experiencing, with each step, Journal Square’s nearly 350-year-old architectural landscape!

Join the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy for back-to-back Preservation Month in Jersey City community events on Saturday, May 16, 2026, including a grassroots preservation discussion at the Museum of Jersey City History + a walking tour of Journal Square. Book tickets today!

Jersey City’s historic Universal Building in Journal Square — named last May as one of the 10 Most Endangered Historic Places in New Jersey by Preservation New Jersey — is featured in the latest issue of Preservation Bites.

Jersey City’s UNIVERSAL BUILDING makes Preservation New Jersey’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list for 2025. One of Journal Square’s first skyscrapers — and the location in the 1930s of Frank Sinatra’s first live-radio performances — the building is threatened with demolition and erasure as Jersey City looks to widen a pedestrian walkway for the benefit of well connected developers.

Read the article in the latest digital issue of The Architect's Newspaper.