Marion Section

The Marion Section was laid out in the 1870s and was developed in the early 20th century. The name is speculated to have come from either the old Marion Hotel or the founders of a watch company located near the city line. Marion Junction, an important rail junction in the 19th century is nearby. Originally concentrated with families of Italian ancestry, Marion was planned as a blue- collar residential community to work at Lorillard Tobacco Company, American Can Company, or nearby railroad yards.

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To the west of Journal Square and north of Holy Name Cemetery on the West Side, the Marion's two distinct neighborhoods are separated by PATH train tracks. It borders other districts of Riverbend, Croxton and the West Side, and is sometimes considered to include the area along the Hackensack Riverfront, Tonnelle Circle, and neighborhood overlapping India Square. Marion is mostly a low-rise residential district that is home to several new housing developments, light manufacturing, restaurants, LaPointe Park and the Marion Branch Public Library. Broadway, U.S. Route 1/9, Sip Avenue and West Side Avenue are the main streets running through the neighborhood. The 1940 Marion Gardens housing project creates the western residential border for the section.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jcha-gov.us/sites/MarionGardens.aspx |title=Marion Gardens |access-date=2010-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091210063034/http://www.jcha-gov.us/sites/MarionGardens.aspx |archive-date=2009-12-10 |url-status=dead}}

The area north of the tracks near the foot of on Newark Avenue and east of Marion Junction is surrounded by manufacturing and warehouse buildings, a few of which have received New Jersey Register of Historic Places designation. Some have been converted to residences or other uses, notably that of the American Can Company.{{Cite news|last=Kaysen|first=Ronda|date=2016-02-12|title=Moving to Jersey City? Join the Club.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/realestate/the-jersey-city-real-estate-bandwagon.html|access-date=2021-05-27|issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news|title=American Can Company to become 202 condos; may see 600 in total. |url=http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15728595&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523586&rfi=6 |quote=... American Can Company located between Dey Street and St. Paul's Avenue ... The American Can Company was spread over a series of five buildings on St. Paul's Avenue. Only two of the five buildings will be turned into the 202 units right now, although another 398 units may be built in the other three buildings in future phases. |publisher=Jersey City Reporter |access-date=2008-04-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825094542/http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15728595&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=523586&rfi=6 |archive-date=2007-08-25}} The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA){{cite web |title = Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA) |publisher=themeca.org |url=http://themeca.org/ |access-date=2012-04-01}} is an exhibition space at Mana Contemporary{{cite web |title=Mana Contemporary |publisher=www.manafinearts.com |url=http://www.manafinearts.com/ |access-date=2012-04-01}}{{citation |last=Musat |first=Stephanie |title=New art center focused on Middle East to open in Jersey City |date=March 31, 2012 }} also housed in a former manufacturing building and that is an extension of the fine arts transportation department of Moishe's Moving Systems.{{cite news |last= Kozinn |first=Allan |title=From Moving Van to Art Complex |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 16, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/nyregion/mana-contemporary-in-jersey-city.html&_r=1& |access-date=2013-05-18 }} The 1,000,000 (one million)-square foot building is also home to dance companies of Shen Wei and Karole Armitage.{{cite web|url=http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2012/04/24/punk-ballerina-karole-armitage-finds-a-new-home-at-mana-contemporary/|title='Punk Ballerina' Karole Armitage Finds a New Home at Mana Contemporary|work=The Jersey City Independent|access-date=8 May 2016}}

Skyway Park has received funding and eventually will connect to the Hackensack RiverWalk with a {{Convert|1300|ft|adj=on}} extension to Lincoln Park and the East Coast Greenway. The reclaimed brownfield will be transformed to a 32-acre waterfront park including two soccer fields, a drill/practice area, a lawn/fairgrounds, and a mile long jogging/walking path.{{Cite web|url=http://riverviewobserver.net/2009/05/jersey-citys-mayor-healy-and-city-council-introduce-marion-greenway-park/|title=Marion Greenway Park}}{{cite web|url=http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2011/01/12/first-phase-of-landfill-to-park-redevelopment-on-hackensack-riverfront-slated-to-be-complete-this-summer/|title=First Phase of Landfill-to-Park Redevelopment on Hackensack Riverfront Slated to Be Complete This Summer|work=The Jersey City Independent|access-date=8 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2010/04/jersey_city_council_voting_on.html|title=Jersey City Council voting on final step to make landfill a park|work=NJ.com|date=14 April 2010 |access-date=8 May 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index.ssf/2012/05/forty_jersey_city_residents_br.html|title=Forty Jersey City residents briefed on new 32-acre park to be built on cleaned-up landfill|work=NJ.com|date=29 May 2012 |access-date=8 May 2016}} Portions were once part of the PJP Landfill.{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2012/05/jersey_city_park_to_be_built_o.html|title=Jersey City park to be built on former PJP landfill site|work=NJ.com|date=29 May 2012 |access-date=8 May 2016}}

India Square is a neighborhood in the Journal Square and Marion neighborhoods.Kiniry, Laura. "Moon Handbooks New Jersey", Avalon Travel Publishing, 2006. pg. 34 {{ISBN|1-56691-949-5}} It is home to one of the highest concentrations of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere{{cite news|url=http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2014/04/neighborhood-spotlight-journal-square/|title=Neighborhood Spotlight: Journal Square|author=Laryssa Wirstiuk|newspaper=Jersey City Independent|date=April 21, 2014|access-date=December 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630085618/http://www.jerseycityindependent.com/2014/04/neighborhood-spotlight-journal-square/|archive-date=June 30, 2018|url-status=dead}} and one of at least 24 enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area. Little Bombay is centered by India Square, a two-block stretch of Newark Avenue home to over 13,000 people of Indian origin.[http://www.thenewjournalsquare.com/html/press/indiasquare.htm "India Square"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131015155533/http://www.thenewjournalsquare.com/html/press/indiasquare.htm |date=October 15, 2013}}, accessed May 16, 2018 As of the 2010 Census, the area had a population of over 27,000, with the majority being of Indian descent.[http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/newspdf/jerseyjournal0814.pdf#search='india%20square%20indian%20population%20jersey%20city' "City Attracts People From Around the Globe"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516142459/http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/newspdf/jerseyjournal0814.pdf |date=2011-05-16}}. Accessed July 26, 2006. As of the 2010 census, over 27,000 Asian Indians accounted for 10.9% of Jersey City's population.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov |title=Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data Jersey City, New Jersey |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=2018-05-15}}

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Although the PATH train runs through the district, there is no station there. During his terms as Mayor of Jersey City in the 1980s and 1990s, Gerald McCann called for a new station. Another former mayor, Jerramiah Healy also requested that a PATH stop be built at Broadway and West Side Avenue,{{cite web|url=http://hudsoncity.net/tubes/new-jc-station.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310173237/http://hudsoncity.net/tubes/new-jc-station.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 10, 2007|title=Newe PATH Station in Jersey City Marion: PATH Trains Hudson Tubes Hudson& Manhattan RR|access-date=8 May 2016}} augmenting service at the nearest station at Journal Square. There are a growing number housing units being built in the Marion Section and government officials find a stop on the PATH system will be necessary to unclog the city streets and lessen the commute for residents and to bolster development in the neighborhood, which has fewer cultural attractions than others in the city.{{cite web |last = Sullivan |first = Al |title = Is a New Path for Public Transit Coming to Jersey City? Station Would Use Previously Constructed Tracks |publisher = TapINto |date = April 24, 2022|url = https://www.tapinto.net/towns/jersey-city/sections/economic-development/articles/is-a-new-path-for-public-transit-coming-to-jersey-city |accessdate = August 16, 2023}}{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310173237/http://hudsoncity.net/tubes/new-jc-station.html Marion PATH Station?]}}, Jersey Journal, May 15, 2006 The city entered into an agreement in 2018 that the agency would conduct a feasibility study.{{Cite web|last=Fry|first=Chris|date=2018-11-20|title=Port Authority Could Soon Study Feasibility of Marion PATH Station in Jersey City|url=https://jerseydigs.com/port-authority-could-soon-study-marion-path-station-feasibility-jersey-city/|access-date=2021-05-27|website=Jersey Digs|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|first=Terrence T.|last=McDonald|date=2018-11-27|title=Legal settlement: millions for Jersey City, new home for PATH substation|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2018/11/legal_settlement_includes_millions_for_jersey_city.html|access-date=2021-05-27|website=NJ.com|language=en}}{{cite web | url=https://hudsoncountyview.com/fulop-tom-degise-bob-menendez-all-in-favor-of-marion-street-path-station-in-jersey-city/amp/?fbclid=IwAR37o_IZCJn56zWfAxGavWadrQGHG9pziGpK_Q5X7nbzYc0_HqMkYev9zis | title=Fulop, Tom DeGise, & Bob Menendez all in favor of Marion Street PATH Station in Jersey City | date=8 April 2022 | last=Heinis | first=John | website=Hudson County View}} After some delays, the report was completed in 2020.{{Cite report |title = Marion PATH Station Physical Feasibility Study |publisher = Hatch |date = January 2020 |url = https://www.hudsoncountyview.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Hatch-Marion-Street-PATH-report.pdf}}{{Cite web|url=https://jerseydigs.com/110-115-giles-ave-jersey-city-renderings/|title=Renderings Revealed for Development on Jersey City’s Giles Avenue|first=Chris|last=Fry|date=May 10, 2022|website=Jersey Digs}}

• Ethnic enclave
• Hackensack Riverfront
• Hackensack RiverWalk
• Hudson Generating Station
• Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City
• Pulaski Skyway
• Tonnele Circle
• Riverbend

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20050316185635/http://www.jclibrary.org/libinfo/marion.php Marion Library]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20091210063034/http://www.jcha-gov.us/sites/MarionGardens.aspx Marion Gardens]
• {{cite web |title=Covert/Larch Historic District |publisher=New Jersey Department of Transportation |url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt1_9t/covert.shtm |access-date=2012-11-11}}

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