Jackson Hill, Jersey City

[5][16][17][18] In 2011, the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency created Jackson Hill Main Street special improvement district along the commercial corridors of MLK Drive and its northern continuation, Monticello Avenue.

[19][20] Among the notable sites in the Jackson Hill are two listed on National Register of Historic Places, St. Patrick's Parish and Buildings and Ficken's Warehouse, both on Grand Street.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey maintained a station by the name south of the junction of its main and Newark branch line[23][24] until service was discontinued in 1967.

[28] Claremont Terminal east of the neighbourhood is a maritime facility created from tidal flats in the Upper New York Bay opened in 1923.

Jackson Square, originally known as the Hub, is a shopping center just south of Martin Luther King Drive station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail[29] which has been the traditional border between Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville.

Over the years MLK Drive and some adjacent residential side streets deteriorated as a result of economic disinvestment.

Since 1975 the Municipal Council of Jersey City has adopted a number of resolutions and ordinances aimed at revitalizing sections of avenue.

[30] MLK Drive is runs for 26 blocks south of Communipaw Avenue and the Hub has been the center piece of revitalisation efforts.

[48] The Jersey City Employment & Training Program (JCETP), headed by former governor Jim McGreevey opened a new center called Matin's Place in September 2014.

[49][50][51] Among those at the opening of the facility were Brendan Byrne, Thomas Kean, Steve Fulop, Chris Christie, Robert Menendez and Nancy Pelosi.

The line runs along the right-of-way that was originally part of the Newark and New York Branch and had a station on Jackson Avenue until 1946, when service was discontinued.

Northbound the NJT6 and NJT87 travel to Journal Square, with the NJT87 continuing through Jersey City Heights to Hudson Place (Hoboken).