Jersey City’s Universal Building Placed on 10 Most Endangered Historic Places 2025 List

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.