Editing Perth Amboy, New Jersey (section)

===Harbortown===

[[File:Tottenville ferry pilings jeh.JPG|thumb|Looking across [[Arthur Kill]] to Harbortown (center)]]
[[Harbortown, Perth Amboy|Harbortown]] is a [[townhouse]] development on the waterfront which continues to be expanded since construction started in 1987. [[Section 8 (housing)|"Section 8"]] housing along with more affluent homes can be found in Harbortown, an economically and ethnically diverse townhouse development in the city.<ref>Deas, Wayne L. [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/16/nyregion/perth-amboy-s-rebirth-tied-to-project.html "Perth Amboy's Rebirth Tied To Project"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 16, 1987. Accessed July 14, 2012. "The massive Harbortown waterfront development will displace the old Union Carbide warehouse near State and Parker streets on Arthur Kill. The multi-million-dollar development is to consist of 2,250 town houses, a marina, lagoon and restaurant along 120 acres of the waterfront."</ref>

This area was the Lehigh Valley Railroad marshaling yards where coal was loaded onto barges for shipment to New York City and elsewhere until the LVRR went bankrupt in 1976.<ref>Heiss, Ralph A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BfbYjCQvLvcC Lehigh Valley Railroad Across New Jersey''], ''[[Arcadia Publishing]]'', 2009. {{ISBN|9780738565767}}. Accessed December 19, 2019.</ref>