Greenville, Jersey City

Greenville is an unincorporated area and neighborhood of Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Greenville had been incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 14, 1863, from portions of Bergen Town.^[1] It was absorbed into Jersey City on February 4, 1873, ending its life as an independent municipality.^[1]^[2]

It encompasses the southern tip of Jersey City and is bounded by Culver Avenue to the north, the Hackensack River to the west, the Hudson River tidal basin to the east, and the Bayonne city limits to the south.

Greenville is primarily residential, with a principal commercial corridor surrounding Danforth Avenue. The neighborhood is adjacent to Greenville Yards, a former Conrail railyard now being used as a distribution center. Jersey City includes the Port Liberté development, a high-end gated residential community on the Hudson River waterfront, as being part of Greenville, although Jersey City residents typically consider Port Liberté to be distinct from Greenville as they are separated by the New Jersey Turnpike extension (Interstate 78) and represent vastly different socioeconomic backgrounds.

As prices soar in other neighborhoods in New York City and New Jersey, Greenville has become a destination for those seeking the next hot neighborhood.^[3]

[edit] Crime

Greenville has often been associated with high crime. In 2005, due to a huge surge in murders and crime the city enacted a curfew for business owners on some of Greenville's most crime-ridden streets, including Martin Luther King Drive and Ocean Avenue^[4].Most of the 39 murders in 2005 occurred within the borders of this Jersey City neighborhood. Many drug gangs and street gangs have staked out their territories along this neighborhood's most blighted street, and in 2005 the FBI targeted a group of drug dealers that were entrenched on the corner of Lexington and Bergen Avenues, the base of operations for cocaine distribution and an area where numerous drug- and gang-related murders and shootings had taken place between 1993 and 2002.

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146.
^ "Municipal Incorporations of the State of New Jersey (according to Counties)" prepared by the Division of Local Government, Department of the Treasury (New Jersey); December 1, 1958, p. 78 - Extinct List.
^ If You Lived Here, You’d Be Cool by Now, New York Magazine, December 4, 2006
^ Jersey City Curfew Tackles Crime, but May Hit Profits, Too, The New York Times, March 25, 2005

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