[30][31] At the time it was formed, Bayonne included the communities of Bergen Point, Constable Hook, Centreville, Pamrapo and Saltersville.

[32] While somewhat diminished, traditional manufacturing, distribution, and maritime activities remain a driving force of the economy of the city.

[32] Significant civil unrest arose during the Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–1916, in which mostly Polish-American workers staged labor actions against Standard Oil of New Jersey and Tidewater Petroleum, seeking improved pay and working conditions.

[36] Four striking workers were killed when strikebreakers, allegedly protected by police, fired upon a violent crowd.

[32] Bayonne is east of Newark, the state's largest city, north of Elizabeth in Union County and west of Brooklyn.

It shares a land border with Jersey City to the north and is connected to Staten Island by the Bayonne Bridge.

[39][40][41] Unincorporated communities, localities and place names located partially or completely within the city include:[42] Bergen Point, Constable Hook and Port Johnson.

[citation needed] The 2010 United States census counted 63,024 people, 25,237 households, and 16,051 families in the city.

[60] On the site of the former Military Ocean Terminal, the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor includes new housing and businesses.

One of them, Cape Liberty Cruise Port is located at the end of the long peninsula with Royal Caribbean.

[61] Also found is a memorial park for the Tear of Grief, a 100-foot-high (30 m), 175-short-ton (159 t) monument commemorating the September 11 terrorist attacks and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

[63][64] Hackensack RiverWalk begins at Collins Park in Bergen Point where the Kill Van Kull meets the Newark Bay.

A plaque unveiled on May 2, 2006, for the new Richard A. Rutowski Park, a wetlands preserve on the northwestern end of town that is part of the RiverWalk.

[66][67] In August 2014, the Bayonne Hometown Fair, a popular tourist and community attraction that ceased in 2000, was revived by a local business owner and resident.

[143] The 40-year concession agreement is a public-private partnership between the city and the BWJV in which the private partners pay off the BMUA's $130 million debt and take over the operations, maintenance, and capital improvement of Bayonne's water and wastewater utilities in exchange for a regulated share of the revenue.

[144][148] Part of this reduced demand stemmed from the closure of the Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne,[148] and the fact that the subsequent plans to redevelop the site with housing fell short.

Bayonne OEM coordinates emergency response of multiple agencies (Police, Fire, EMS, DPW).

8 was recognized with the National Blue Ribbon School Award of Excellence by the United States Department of Education.

[184] Holy Family Academy for girls in ninth through twelfth grades was closed at the end of the 2012–2013 school year in the wake of financial difficulties and declining enrollment, having lost the support of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 2008.

[192] In the 1983 novel Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin, which is set in a fantastical version of New York City and its surroundings, "The Bayonne Marsh" is the hidden, inaccessible home of the Marshmen, a race of fierce warriors.

[citation needed] Jackie Gleason, a former headliner at the Hi-Hat Club in Bayonne, was fascinated by the city and mentioned it often in the television series The Honeymooners.

[196][197] The November 16, 2010, episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart parodied former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's reality television series, Sarah Palin's Alaska, in the form of a trailer for a fictional reality show called Jason Jones' Bayonne, New Jersey, whose portrayal of the city was characterized by prostitution, drugs, crime, pollution and a stereotypical Italian-American population.

"[199] It is also referenced in the humorous song "The Rolling Mills of New Jersey" by John Roberts and Tony Barrand as the narrator's home town.

[200] The comic strip Piranha Club (originally "Ernie"), drawn by Bud Grace, is set in and around Bayonne.

Reverend Alexander Santora in the Jersey Journal wrote that due to the efforts of the pastor, the Demjanovich merger "went off, however, without a hitch.

[208] The Bayonne Bridge stretches 1,775 feet (541 m), connecting south to Staten Island over the Kill Van Kull.

The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail has four stops in Bayonne, all originally from the former Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ).

The NJ Transit 120 runs between Avenue C in Bayonne and Battery Park in Downtown Manhattan during rush hours in peak direction while the 81 provides service to Jersey City.

[217][218][219] MTA Regional Bus Operations provides bus service between Bayonne and Staten Island on the S89 route, which connects the 34th Street light rail station and the Eltingville neighborhood on Staten Island with no other stops in Bayonne.

[221] By 1973, a lightly used shuttle between Bayonne and Cranford that operated 20 times per day was the final remnant of service on the line.