About Historic Downtown

Welcome to the Historic Downtown’s premier event of the season! Visitors and vendors converge on downtown Jersey City for this event to celebrate and have fun! The annual All About Downtown Street Fair began in 2011 featuring over a hundred vendors selling a variety of products ranging from handmade jewelry to one of a kind artwork. In 2018, this event brought over 40,000 people into our downtown corridor and over 200 vendors selling everything from vintage clothes and hand-poured candles to gyros and arepas! We featured a Kidszone area with rides, face painting and kid-friendly vendors. Local bars and restaurants set up outdoor beer gardens and rum bars. Our amazing food vendors featured cuisines from around the world that surely proved Jersey City’s title as the Most Diverse City in the United States!

Living in Historic Downtown

Historic Downtown was an area of mostly low-rise buildings to the west of the waterfront—but that is rapidly changing. It includes the neighborhoods of Van Vorst Park and Hamilton Park, which are square parks surrounded by brownstones. The Grove Street neighborhood has also seen a lot of development and the neighborhood is rich with stores and restaurants that cater to the diverse backgrounds of Jersey City’s inhabitants. The Grove Street PATH station is in the process of being rebuilt and a number of new housing is being built around the stop. Historic Downtown is home to many cultural attractions including the Jersey City Museum, the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse (planned to become a museum and artist housing) and the Harsimus Stem Embankment along Sixth Street, which a citizens’ movement is working to turn into public parkland.

HISTORIC DOWNTOWN Zip:

07302

Historic DowntownGeo Coordinates: 

Latitude: 40.7241174

Longtitude: -74.0600398