Sidewalk Stories is a new podcast exploring the places, people, and hidden histories that make our neighborhoods vibrant. Join artist Nat Kalbach as she walks the streets of Jersey City and beyond, uncovering the stories beneath our feet through conversations with preservationists, community advocates, and local changemakers. Through art and storytelling, Nat examines how our physical spaces shape community identity and how ordinary people make extraordinary impacts. New episodes released on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.

JCLC Trustee Shirin Vazir MacCormack was celebrated at the 2025 Women's History Month Gala and Awards Ceremony at the Historic Brennan Court House on March 27, 2025 — and we could not be more proud of this visionary community leader and preservationist! Listen to the April 1, 2025 episode of the HudcoRadio podcast to hear Shirin’s reaction on receiving this annual recognition with two additional Hudson County women activists — and her impassioned statements on the endangered Powerhouse in Jersey City!

Read The Jersey Journal article written by preservation advocate John Gomez.

99 Greene Street — the former and recently closed Iron Monkey bar and restaurant — in Jersey City’s Paulus Hook Historic District has appeared to have been stricken during this week’s cold snap by a burst water pipe. Residents as well as the JCLC are deeply concerned about the stability of the already-fragile 200+-year-old Federal-era brick row building, perhaps Paulus Hook’s oldest standing structures.

Originally built circa-1910 for The Drop Forging Company, the 2-story concrete warehouse building at 301 West Side Avenue will be transformed by local firm Weckenmann Architecture + Design.

Get your copy of How Frank Hague Left His Mark On Jersey City, an 8-page pull-out feature only in The Jersey Journal and available at newsstands on Friday, October 11, 2024, or read the extended version via the NJ.com paywall portal.

Announcing the Hudson County Open Space, Recreation & Historic Preservation Trust Fund 2024 Recommendations, including six sites in Jersey City.

Read the article in the latest digital issue of The Architect's Newspaper.

Comments will be accepted through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2024. Please get involved with Liberty State Park’s future transformation for all!

View photos by Reena Rose Sibayan of The Jersey Journal for the recent unveiling of the Lafayette Trail historical marker at Jersey City's ancient Five Corners commercial district.

Jersey City's historic Reservoir No. 3 is reopened to the public — but not without controversy and conflict with the local preservation community.

At the September 16, public meeting of the JC Historic Preservation Commission, commissioners will hear, review, and act on several demolition applications being put forth from various developers and their attorneys. PLEASE GET INVOLVED!

Join us tonight, Thursday, September 12, at the historic Barrow Mansion to honor our incredible pantheon of 2024 Preservation Awards winners!

Read the Jersey City Free Public Library's recent press release about the Priscilla Gardner Main Library's Chief Librarian John Beekman, one winner of our prestigious 2024 J. Owen Grundy History Award!

Tickets to the Preservation Awards event on Thursday, September 12, 2024, are still available — get them now!

Learn how a Civil War-era industrial building in Jersey City's historic Lafayette neighborhood was reimagined for contemporary living!

Preservation New Jersey (PNJ) has just released its PNJ 2025-2027 Strategic Plan — download it today and learn how well-organized preservation non-profit organizations operate and implement their goals, initiatives, and programs!

Read the preservation update for Sacred Heart Church on MLK Drive in Jersey City.

A stately late-19th-century house was torn down this week on Glenwood Avenue in the McGinley Square district.

Article by Ron Zeitlinger for The Jersey Journal

Friday, July 26, 2024