Join the Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy for an afternoon of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse history, trivia, drinks, and mocktails as we make stops at participating venues while touring the Powerhouse arts, residential, and commercial business district!
Save the Powerhouse Pub Crawl poster designed by Shirin MacCormack
$25 per ticket via our Eventbrite.
Participants will have the opportunity to purchase specially priced beverages and bites at each stop, while supplies last!
From 2-4pm, participants can join the JCLC-guided Save the Powerhouse Walking Tour with stops at all pub crawl sites, where guides will share Powerhouse trivia with Powerhouse historians!
Self-guided hours to each establishment are 2-6pm. To receive the pub crawl discount on certain beverages, participants must show proof-of-ticket purchase on their phones.
Attendees must be 21 years or older. All proceeds go to the JCLC’s Save the Powerhouse fund.
To our Save the Powerhouse Pub Crawl collaborators — Hudson Hall, O’Hara’s Downtown, Boots & Bones, Art Wall JC, Powerhouse Arts District Neighborhood Association (PADNA) — we thank you for being part of the movement to preserve Jersey City’s most iconic architectural monument!
Powerhouse Calling by Shirin MacCormack
The Powerhouse is punk! The Powerhouse can twist and shout! This monumental architectural marvel has, since 1908, stood the test of time throughout decades of changing styles and rock legends as iconic as The Clash and Elvis! The fact that the Powerhouse still exists today — ready to be revitalized by adaptive reuse — is its most spirited act of rebellion yet. This elegant, gritty, industrial Jersey City monument, responsible for powering the PATH trains, has inspired a preservation movement, a plethora of artists, and the growth of an entire neighborhood. At JCLC, we won’t just “save” The Powerhouse. We’ll honor the Powerhouse as a community of counterculture stakeholders and caretakers, overseeing its restoration as it breathes new life and continues to anchor the district, creating relevance and inspiring an inclusive edge for its next 118 years!
Preservation Month was initiated by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1973 and has become the highpoint every May for historic preservation advocacy, awareness and appreciation in the United States. In the spirit of the National Trust, the nonprofit Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy organized its first Preservation Month in Jersey City series of walking tours, lectures, workshops, symposiums and other events in 2000, just a few months after its founding in 1999. Join the JCLC in 2026 as we continue our public preservation programming in honor of this important month and as we continue our Save the Powerhouse community preservation campaign!