Jersey City Goes from Industrial to Luxury Apartments For Rent |
Posted: March 20, 2017 |
In the early 1600s, the land comprising what is now Jersey City was inhabited by the Lenape, a collection of tribes that was later called Delaware Indians. By 1621, the Dutch West India Company was organized to manage this new territory, and in June 1623, New Netherland became a Dutch province, with headquarters in New Amsterdam. Fur trappers, farmers and agents of Dutch investors left their home base in New Amsterdam for new frontiers on the west bank of the deep, wide river now known as the Hudson. By 1660, conflict with the native Lenapes doomed early settlements. Relations with the Lenape deteriorated, in part because of the colonialist's misunderstanding of the indigenous people, and led to a series of raids, reprisals and the virtual destruction of the settlement on the west bank. During the American Revolutionary War, the area was in the hands of the British. After the war, Alexander Hamilton and other prominent New Yorkers and New Jerseyans attempted to develop the area that would become historic downtown Jersey City, and laid out the city squares and streets that still characterize the neighborhood today. Expansion of the railroads along the waterfront, growing industrialization and a steady supply of workers to man the factories and run the trains continued through the Civil War. By 1870, an incorporated Jersey City’s population and economy had outpaced its neighbors. In the late 1880s, three passenger railroad terminals opened in Jersey City next to the Hudson River. Jersey City was a dock and manufacturing town for much of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the years following World War II, Jersey City changed, partially because of the lure of the suburbs and partially because of the collapse of the independent railroad lines and death of the factories. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the decline of the city’s economic base appeared irreversible but, to the surprise of many natives who had convinced themselves that the future was bleak, the process which began centuries before repeated itself. The now empty west bank of the Hudson, once crowded with railroad yards, was again an inviting frontier. In the mid-1980s, the waterfront became the proverbial Gold Coast, as new developments arose, bringing with them new residents, new stores and restaurants, and new jobs. Today, Jersey City has six neighborhoods – Bergen-Lafayette, The Heights, Historic Downtown, Greenville, Journal Square and West Side. In the Historic Downtown ward, there is an area referred to as the Hudson Waterfront or just the Waterfront, which is highly popular and an often sought-after area in which to reside. Located in the Waterfront area are The One Apartments at 110 First Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302. For those with sophisticated tastes, you will feel right at home in these apartments for rent in Jersey City with the 24-hour attended lobby and the live-in superintendent. For more information regarding perhaps your new home at The One, contact them via email at [email protected] or give them a call at (201) 792-1101.
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