Editing Jersey City, New Jersey (section)

====Post-World War II====
Following World War II, returning veterans created a [[Economic history of the United States#Housing|post-war economic boom]] and were beginning to buy homes in the suburbs with the assistance of the [[G.I. Bill]]. During the [[Great Depression]] and the war years, not much new housing was constructed, leaving cities with older and overcrowded housing stock. In response, Jersey City looked to build new housing on undeveloped tracts around the city. College Towers was built on the West Side as the first middle-income [[housing cooperative]] apartment complex in New Jersey in 1956. [[Country Village, Jersey City|Country Village]] was built in the 1960s as a middle-income "suburbia-in-the-city" planned community in the Greenville/West Side area to offer the "out of town" experience without leaving the city. The city had hoped that new residential neighborhoods and housing stock would keep the city's population stable.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://njcu.libguides.com/collegetowers|title=College Towers Apartments|website=njcu.libguides.com|access-date=February 20, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://njcu.libguides.com/countryvillage|title=Country Village|website=njcu.libguides.com|access-date=February 20, 2025}}</ref>

In 1951, [[Seton Hall University School of Law]] opened on the site of the former John Marshall Law School at 40 Journal Square and would relocate to Newark by the end of the year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://law.shu.edu/about/history.html|title=History of Seton Hall Law School|website=law.shu.edu|access-date=March 24, 2025}}</ref> From 1956 to 1968, Jersey City Medical Center was the home of the [[Seton Hall University|Seton Hall]] College of Medicine and Dentistry, the predecessor to the [[University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey]] (UMDNJ), which would relocate to Newark in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://njms.rutgers.edu/about_njms/timeline.php|title=Timeline|website=njms.rutgers.edu|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref>

In 1956, the [[New Jersey Turnpike#Extensions|Newark Bay (Hudson County) Extension]] [[Interstate 78 in New Jersey|(I-78)]] of the New Jersey Turnpike opened. As the first [[Limited-access road|limited-access]] section of I-78 to be built in the state, the extension connected Jersey City and the Holland Tunnel to the mainline of the Turnpike in Newark via the [[Newark Bay Bridge]] and at an estimated cost of $2,765 per foot, it was deemed the "world's most expensive road".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/jerseyjournal150/2017/04/worlds_most_expensive_road_opened_in_nj_in_1956.html|title='World's most expensive road' opened in N.J. in 1956|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=April 24, 2017|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref> That same year, the standard shipping container [[Containerization|debuted]] along with the maiden voyage of the [[container ship]] [[SS Ideal X]] from [[Port Newark]] to the [[Port of Houston]]. These innovations changed forever the way the [[Maritime transport|maritime industry]] shipped goods by sea and led to the transformation of Port Newark into the leading container port in New York Harbor. As a result, the Jersey City waterfront, along with the other traditional waterfront port facilities in the harbor, quickly became antiquated and fell into a steep decline. Additionally, by the late 1960s, the rail terminals and associated ferry service that were so vital to the city's economic health had closed and were later abandoned after the host railroads declared bankruptcy.<ref name="Great City"/> In response to adapt to this economic shift, [[Port Jersey]] was created on [[Upper New York Bay]] adjacent to [[Greenville Yard]] between 1972 and 1976 as the city's own modern [[intermodal freight transport]] facility and container shipping terminal.

By the 1970s the city experienced a period of urban decline spurred on by [[deindustrialization]] that saw many of its wealthy residents [[White flight|leave for the suburbs]], due to rising crime, civil unrest, political corruption, and economic hardship. From 1950 to 1980, Jersey City lost 75,000 residents, and from 1975 to 1982, the city lost 5,000 jobs, or 9% of its workforce.<ref name="Remaking">[[Andrew Jacobs (journalist)|Jacobs, Andrew]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/nyregion/city-whose-time-has-come-again-after-years-deprivation-jersey-city-old.html "A City Whose Time Has Come Again; After Years of Deprivation, Jersey City, an Old Industrial Powerhouse, Is Remaking Itself"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 30, 2000. Accessed April 1, 2015.</ref>

In 1974, [[Hudson County Community College]] was established in [[Journal Square]] as one of two "contract" colleges in the United States and the first contract college in New Jersey to grant students occupational and career-oriented certificates and Associates in Applied Science degrees. Since then, the college has grown throughout the Journal Square and [[Bergen Square]] neighborhoods.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://njcu.libguides.com/hccc|title=Hudson County Community College|website=njcu.libguides.com|access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref>

On [[Flag Day (United States)|Flag Day]] 1976, [[Liberty State Park]] opened on New York Harbor to coincide with the nation's [[United States Bicentennial|bicentennial]]. At {{convert|1,212|acre|ha|1}} with a two-mile waterfront walkway, it is the largest park in Jersey City and the largest urban park in New Jersey. The park was built on the site of the former railyards of the [[Central Railroad of New Jersey]] and [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]]. The idea for the park dated back to the late 1950s and its creation was advocated for and spearheaded by several Jersey City residents: Audrey Zapp, Theodore Conrad, Morris Pesin and [[J. Owen Grundy]]. Jersey City donated {{convert|156|acre|ha|1}} of land to the development of the park through their advocacy.<ref>{{cite news |last = Mohr |first = Charles |title = Ellis Isle Made National Shrine |newspaper = The New York Times |date = May 12, 1965 |url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1965/05/12/101546171.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0|access-date = February 13, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://njcu.libguides.com/libertypark|title=Liberty State Park|website=njcu.libguides.com|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/jerseyjournal150/2017/04/legendary_canoe_trip_liberty_state_park_vision_com.html|title=Liberty State Park vision came into focus during legendary canoe trip|publisher=The Jersey Jounral|date=April 24, 2017|access-date=February 13, 2025}}</ref> The [[Liberty Science Center]] opened in the park in 1993.