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.

Sidewalk Stories is a new podcast exploring the places, people, and hidden histories that make our neighborhoods vibrant. Join artist Nat Kalbach as she walks the streets of Jersey City and beyond, uncovering the stories beneath our feet through conversations with preservationists, community advocates, and local changemakers. New episodes released on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.

Read The Jersey Journal article written by preservation advocate John Gomez.

99 Greene Street — the former and recently closed Iron Monkey bar and restaurant — in Jersey City’s Paulus Hook Historic District has appeared to have been stricken during this week’s cold snap by a burst water pipe. Residents as well as the JCLC are deeply concerned about the stability of the already-fragile 200+-year-old Federal-era brick row building, perhaps Paulus Hook’s oldest standing structures.

Originally built circa-1910 for The Drop Forging Company, the 2-story concrete warehouse building at 301 West Side Avenue will be transformed by local firm Weckenmann Architecture + Design.

Get your copy of How Frank Hague Left His Mark On Jersey City, an 8-page pull-out feature only in The Jersey Journal and available at newsstands on Friday, October 11, 2024, or read the extended version via the NJ.com paywall portal.

Announcing the Hudson County Open Space, Recreation & Historic Preservation Trust Fund 2024 Recommendations, including six sites in Jersey City.

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

Comments will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Please get involved with Liberty State Park’s future transformation for all!

View photos by Reena Rose Sibayan of The Jersey Journal for the recent unveiling of the Lafayette Trail historical marker at Jersey City's ancient Five Corners commercial district.

Jersey City's historic Reservoir No. 3 is reopened to the public — but not without controversy and conflict with the local preservation community.

At the September 16, public meeting of the JC Historic Preservation Commission, commissioners will hear, review, and act on several demolition applications being put forth from various developers and their attorneys. PLEASE GET INVOLVED!

Tickets to the Preservation Awards event on Thursday, September 12, 2024, are still available — get them now!

Learn how a Civil War-era industrial building in Jersey City's historic Lafayette neighborhood was reimagined for contemporary living!

Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) has just released its PNJ 2025-2027 Strategic Plan — download it today and learn how well-organized preservation non-profit organizations operate and implement their goals, initiatives, and programs!

Article by Ron Zeitlinger for The Jersey Journal

Friday, July 26, 2024

PRESERVATION NEW JERSEY has just released its 2024 top-ten list of threatened historic sites and places in New Jersey — timed strategically with the start of Preservation Month!