The Transformation Of Jersey City
31 March 2003 - 7:00am
Jersy City is hip and prospering.
"Downtown neighborhoods...have been drawing bargain bunters from Manhattan and Brooklyn. Older professionals have bought brownstones and are raising their children here... For years artists, musicians and immigrants have called the waterfront section of downtown Jersey City home. ...sales of single homes and condominiums had been strong because of low interest rates."
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Hip Yet Prospering. Can Jersey City Do It?
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The New York Times, March 30, 2003
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.
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