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, a few blocks south of Journal Square — another casualty of Jersey City's residential teardowns by developers and LLCs.

Summer Interludes by John Gomez

Last month the 100+-year-old Corte & Co. meat provisions factory and generational family butchery was demolished — along with an adjacent building dating to circa-1872 — as the busy intersection flanking the Bergen Arches is readied for another massive Journal Square-area residential tower.