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Grabbing the rhythm, texture and tradition of Jersey City New Jersey

Jersey City is in northeastern New Jersey. Its eastern waterfront faces the Hudson River where it meets Upper New York Bay. Liberty State Park has panoramic views of the Manhattan skyline, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, the former immigrant gateway. The park’s Liberty Science Center features interactive exhibits, live animals and an IMAX Dome theater. Bars and ethnic eateries line downtown’s Grove Street.

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Chilltown was coined as the hot nickname for Jersey City decades ago. It’s a vibe, a feeling you get when you cross the Hudson and get off the PATH and arrive in JC. For residents, JC will always be the home of chill.

Legend has it that Jersey City was first given its moniker by legendary rappers of the 1980s— like Doug E. Fresh, Biz Markie, and Grandmaster Flash — who found living in JC problem-free. Chilltown was and is used as a term of comparison. If New York City is the city that never sleeps, Jersey City offers quiet nights in great neighborhoods. Today, the city’s nickname suggests a vibe for residents and all kinds of local businesses.

Development along the Jersey City waterfront has made the city one of the largest centers of banking and finance in the country and has led to one of the city’s other nicknames: Wall Street West. But that kind of stress is not for JC as cited by Jaume Plensa’s massive waterfront sculpture Water’s Soul that whispers “hush” in the direction of NYC’s busy financial district. The reality is that proximity to the nation’s center-of-everything makes New York into Jersey City’s cultural foil. Author N.K. Jemisin’s bestselling novels about a magical mythic contemporary New York City designate Jersey City as the Big Apple’s sixth Borough and certainly a vast swath of JC residents’ lives are intrinsically tied to the emerald city across the water. It’s the “more affordable” and “less stressful” neighbor to NYC which most people mention first when they describe why Jersey City is their Chilltown.
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