Bergen-Lafayette Neighborhood Guide
HBLR Hums, Berry Lane Ollies
🧭Geographically defined by: Grand Street and Montgomery Street to the north, Liberty State Park, Morris Canal and the I-78 Newark Bay Extension to the east, Caven Point Road and Claremont Avenue to the south, Bergen Avenue, MLK Drive and JFK Boulevard to the west
📌Best known for: Beautiful sunsets, being near Liberty State Park, being unusually car-friendly for Jersey City, once being high-crime but now being fairly safe, having good parks.
👕You can spot a Bergen-Lafayette local by: Well...they're all at the park. It's kind of an obsession here. Locals are also quick to defend their neighborhood's reputation.
👍Locals live here because: unusually spacious apartments, a slightly quieter vibe, lagging gentrification, an old school vibe.
👎Don't say we didn't warn you about: heavy construction with real estate investors salivating over homes, fireworks in the park, and having to deal with explaining that it's "really not the way it once was" to other newbies.
✨TLDR;: Gritty, cool, but sleepy.
Pros & Cons of Bergen-Lafayette
Bergen-Lafayette strengths (top 5)
Bergen-Lafayette tradeoffs (top 3)
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Bergen-Lafayette Neighborhood DNA
Liberty State fans, artists, art lovers, neo-beatniks.
