Hi! It’s time for the 35th Milt’s History Monday for 2014! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay! I’m going to attempt to stagger the direct history of JC itself with neighborhood history from week-to-week. Let’s see how that works but if someone has an idea along the way or some event pops up to divert me then so be it. ~ As per Mr. Frank Faugno’s request to return to the beginnings of MHM, due to the many new members that have arrived since I began this weekly column, this is an ‘instant’ replay of this subject’s first incarnation in another MHM column of mine which was last posted on 8-5-13. Yet again I can’t believe it’s been a year!!! ~ It is short today as I am busier than normal. Let’s go! ~ Bayfront, Jersey City> Bayfront is an urban redevelopment project in Jersey City, New Jersey Hackensack Riverfront> The Hackensack Riverfront is an area on the eastern banks of the Hackensack River near its mouth at Newark Bay. It is on the West Side of the city, specifically west of NJ Route 440. It lies north of Droyers Point and south of Lincoln Park. It is home to the Hudson Mall, Four Hundred Forty Shopping Center and the former Jersey City Public Works incinerators well as the planned site. Kearny Point and the piers of the former Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, now River Terminal, are on the opposite bank. The Hackensack RiverWalk is a partially complete greenway promenade intended to run from the Bayonne Bridge to the Hackensack Meadowlands in North Bergen, mostly at the waters edge. (I may follow this up in detail in a future post.) ~ Bayfront project> Bayfront is a proposed mixed-use development to be situated on a 100-acre brownfield site and developed though a public-private partnership once environmental remediation of toxic waste is completed by Honeywell, which once operated facilities there. Though separated by the highway Bayport and the West Campus of New Jersey City University will transform large parts of the city from industrial and manufacturing zones to residential, educational, recreational and commercial uses. Development plans are required to incorporate public access to the rivers edge along the bulkhead and will connect to the esplanade at Droyers Point. While construction is expected to begin in 2016, the project wont be built out until 2043. (Can’t wait ;) ~ Boulevard and BRT> In March 2011, NJDOT granted nearly $640,000 for engineering work to transform Route 440, between the two projects and beyond to an urban boulevard. Plans include the use of the Journal Square BRT, a bus rapid system along the boulevard. As envisioned, the BRT corridor would run from Droyers Point and reach Journal Square via Sip Avenue. ~ Transportation> Currently bus service is provide by A&C Bus Corporation from the shopping centers or Droyers Point to Journal Square. In May 2011 after two years of studies, New Jersey Transit announced a plan for 0.7 mile extension of the West Side Branch of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail from its current terminus. The new track would be laid along the former Newark and New York Railroad right-of-way on an elevated viaduct from the West Side Avenue Station over Route 440 to the northern end of the redevelopment area, where a new station would be constructed. The trip between the two stations would take 1 minute and 50 seconds. The project, eligible for federal funding, is estimated to cost $171.6 million. (SAY WHAT!!!!!!!) ~ As always ideas are welcome and ‘likes’ are most appreciated! It helps those of us, who do post, to know that you have actually read our posts, appreciate them and our time and effort to bring them to you. ~ Have a SAFE and GREAT week! I trust you will enjoy and learn from today’s MHM post as much as I did! Please pass on this history info to those around you. History seems to be a fleeting thing today and that is a shame as those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. Best, Milt
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:51:18 +0000
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