Bergen Hill, Jersey City

[2] The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency has called the special improvement district along the commercial corridors of Monticello Avenue and MLK Drive the Jackson Hill Main Street[4][5][6][7] The Bergen Hill Historic District[8] received an opinion of eligibility for New Jersey Register of Historic Places designation (ID#1481) in 1991.

[10] It travels north to the landmark St. John's Episcopal Church[11] soon after coming in the neighborhood of the Beacon, site of the former Jersey City Medical Center, which since 2016 has been renovated and restored for adaptive reuse as an apartment complex.

MLK Drive, formerly Jackson Avenue, has long been a commercial street for the southern part of the neighborhood, and is the site of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail station of the same name.

On the top of the hill, at MLK Drive and Monticelo Avenue the NJT 87[16] runs south along to Curries Woods and north to Journal Square, Jersey City Heights, and Hudson Place (Hoboken).

The nearest stations of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail are located along the southern periphery of the neighborhood at Garfield Avenue and MLK Drive on the West Side Branch.