It borders other districts of Riverbend, Croxton and the West Side, and is sometimes considered to include the area along the Hackensack Riverfront, Tonnelle Circle, and neighborhood overlapping India Square.
[4] The area north of the tracks near the foot of on Newark Avenue and east of Marion Junction is surrounded by manufacturing and warehouse buildings, a few of which have received New Jersey Register of Historic Places designation.
[17] It is home to one of the highest concentrations of Asian Indians in the Western Hemisphere[18] and one of at least 24 enclaves characterized as a Little India which have emerged within the New York City Metropolitan Area.
Little Bombay is centered by India Square, a two-block stretch of Newark Avenue home to over 13,000 people of Indian origin.
[22] Another former mayor, Jerramiah Healy also requested that a PATH stop be built at Broadway and West Side Avenue,[23] augmenting service at the nearest station at Journal Square.