Editing Jersey City, New Jersey (section)

===Late 20th and early 21st centuries===
[[File:Newport, Jersey City waterfront, skyline.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Newport section of the Jersey City skyline along the Hudson River]]
Beginning in the 1980s, the restoration of [[Brownstone#Use in urban private residences|brownstones]] in neighborhoods such as [[Paulus Hook]], [[Van Vorst Park]], [[Hamilton Park, Jersey City|Hamilton Park]], [[Harsimus|Harsimus Cove]] and [[Bergen Hill, Jersey City|Bergen Hill]] along with the development of the waterfront previously occupied by railyards, factories and warehouses helped to stir the beginnings of an economic renaissance for Jersey City.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/21/archives/jersey-city-feels-effects-of-brownstone-revival.html|title=Jersey City Feels Effects of Brownstone Revival|publisher=The New York Times|date=April 21, 1975|access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/20/realestate/in-the-region-new-jersey-new-rentals-to-blend-with-jersey-city-brownstones.html|title=In the Region /New Jersey; New Rentals to Blend With Jersey City Brownstones|publisher=The New York Times|date=June 20, 1999|access-date=February 24, 2025}}</ref> The rapid construction of numerous high-rise buildings, such as the [[Mixed-use development|mixed-use]] community of [[Newport, Jersey City|Newport]], increased the population and led to the development of the [[Exchange Place (Jersey City)|Exchange Place]] financial district, also known as "[[Wall Street West]]", one of the largest [[financial center]]s in the United States. Large financial institutions such as [[UBS]], [[Goldman Sachs]], [[Chase Bank]], [[Citibank]], and [[Merrill Lynch]] occupy prominent buildings on the Jersey City waterfront, some of which are among the [[List of tallest buildings in Jersey City|tallest buildings in New Jersey]]. With {{convert|18000000|sqft|m2}} of office space as of 2011, Jersey City has the nation's 12th-largest [[downtown]] and the state's largest office market.<ref name=Renaissance>[[Jerramiah Healy|Healy, Jerramiah]]. [http://www.njslom.org/featart0507.html "Renaissance on the Waterfront and Beyond: Jersey City's Reach for the Stars"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726101451/http://www.njslom.org/featart0507.html |date=July 26, 2011 }}. New Jersey State League of Municipalities.</ref> Since 1988, the [[New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection]] has mandated by law that developers building along the waterfront preserve and develop the [[Hudson River Waterfront Walkway]] to provide the public with access and recreation by creating a linear park along the Hudson River.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/realestate/a-river-walk-s-piecemeal-birth.html|title=A River Walk's Piecemeal Birth|publisher=The New York Times|date=August 15, 1999|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref>

Simultaneous to this building boom, new transit projects were prioritized. By the late 1980s, trans-Hudson ferry service was restored along the waterfront by [[NY Waterway]] with ferry terminals now at [[Paulus Hook Ferry Terminal|Paulus Hook]], [[Liberty Harbor]] and [[Port Liberté]]. From 1996 to 2011, [[NJ Transit]] constructed the [[Hudson-Bergen Light Rail]] as one of the largest [[public works]] projects in state history. The system was developed and extended throughout the city and its Downtown utilizing the former right-of-ways of the railroads that defined the city and county during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The system links Jersey City with its neighboring cities while connecting to several [[NJ Transit Bus Operations|NJ Transit bus lines]], [[PATH (rail system)|PATH]] stations and ferry terminals.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0100.pdf |title=Hudson-Bergen Light Rail schedule (PDF) |access-date=October 25, 2010 |archive-date=March 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331034056/http://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/R0100.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>

====September 11, 2001====
{{Main|September 11 attacks}}
[[File:12.6.11DavidLemagnePanelS-29ByLuigiNovi7.jpg|thumb|right|Panel S-29 on the South Pool of the [[National September 11 Memorial & Museum|National 9/11 Memorial]] honors the JCFD.]]
Jersey City was directly affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks at the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] where 38 city residents lost their lives. One of the 38 victims was Joseph Lovero, a [[Jersey City Fire Department]] dispatcher, who was killed by a piece of falling debris while responding.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hudsoncountyview.com/those-lost-18-years-ago-honored-at-jersey-citys-annual-9-11-reflections-ceremony/|title=Those lost 18 years ago honored at Jersey City’s annual 9/11 Reflections Ceremony|website=hudsoncountyview.com|date=September 11, 2019|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref> The Jersey City Fire Department was the only New Jersey fire department to receive an official call for assistance from the [[New York City Fire Department]] that day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/news/2011/05/jersey_city_community_remember.html|title=Jersey City community remembers 9/11 on National Day of Prayer|publisher=The Star-Ledger|date=May 5, 2011|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref> Following the attacks, the Jersey City waterfront became the largest triage center in the area for survivors escaping Lower Manhattan by ferry during the "[[Maritime response following the September 11 attacks|9/11 Boatlift]]". In the days and weeks after, Jersey City became a staging area for rescue and aid workers headed to "[[World Trade Center site|Ground Zero]]" for rescue and recovery efforts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://connecticut.news12.com/jersey-city-marks-20th-anniversary-of-9-11-attacks-with-annual-remembrance-ceremony|title=Jersey City marks 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks with annual remembrance ceremony|website=connecticut.news12.com|date=September 11, 2021|access-date=February 18, 2025}}</ref> The collapse of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|Twin Towers]] destroyed the [[World Trade Center station (PATH)|World Trade Center PATH station]] and the firefighting efforts flooded the [[Downtown Hudson Tubes|Downtown Hudson River tunnels]] and the [[Exchange Place station (PATH)|Exchange Place PATH station]] severing the [[PATH (rail system)#September 11, 2001, and recovery|rail connection]] between Jersey City and Lower Manhattan until 2003.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weiser |first=Benjamin |date=June 29, 2003 |title=Closed Since 9/11, a PATH Station Is Set to Reopen Today |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/29/nyregion/closed-since-9-11-a-path-station-is-set-to-reopen-today.html |access-date=February 18, 2025 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=November 24, 2003 |title=Again, Trains Put the World In Trade Center |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/nyregion/again-trains-put-the-world-in-trade-center.html |access-date=February 18, 2025|website=The New York Times}}</ref> Over the years several memorials have been erected along the waterfront including the ''[[Jersey City 9/11 Memorial]]'' and the official New Jersey state memorial ''[[Empty Sky (memorial)|Empty Sky]]''.

On November 19, 2015, while [[Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign|campaigning for president]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], [[Donald Trump]] falsely claimed a [[List of conspiracy theories promoted by Donald Trump#Claims of corrupt science, medicine, and statistics|conspiracy theory]] that he witnessed people celebrating the attacks in Jersey City on television. Trump said:
{{cquote|Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering,}}
Trump continued to repeat the conspiracy theory to multiple news outlets for weeks, later adding that the people were [[Muslims]], despite no confirmed reports, evidence or footage from that time being found to confirm his repeated falsehood.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-footage-shows-911-celebrations/story?id=35534125|title=What ABC News Footage Shows of 9/11 Celebrations-ABC News archives search finds no video evidence of 9/11 mass celebrations in NJ|website=abcnews.go.com|date=December 4, 2015|access-date=February 19, 2025}}</ref>

====2010s–present====
Jersey City was heavily [[Effects of Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey#Hudson Waterfront|impacted by Hurricane Sandy]] in October 2012 with extended power outages for multiple days, severe wind damage in several neighborhoods and extensive flooding throughout the city especially in Downtown, the Country Village neighborhood, the [[West Side, Jersey City|West Side]] and [[Liberty State Park]]. The flooding damaged the city's utility infrastructure and led to a days long shutdown of the PATH system, both of its [[Uptown Hudson Tubes|Hudson River]] [[Downtown Hudson Tubes|tunnels]] and the [[Holland Tunnel#21st century|Holland Tunnel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2012/10/chaos_in_jersey_city_as_flood.html#incart_m-rpt-2|title=Chaos in Jersey City as flood waters rise, officials investigate reports of building collapses|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=October 30, 2012|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2012/10/jersey_city_recovers_after_hur.html|title=Jersey City recovers after Hurricane Sandy|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=October 30, 2012|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/galleries/EHIQXBXPRZE5XH5UYPRBZMBP3I/|title=Looking back at Superstorm Sandy in Hudson County|website=nj.com|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/news/2012/11/path_service_to_midtown_manhat.html|title=PATH service to Midtown Manhattan returns Tuesday|publisher=The Star-Ledger|date=November 5, 2012|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://abc7ny.com/archive/8875980/|title=Holland Tunnel reopens Wednesday after Sandy|website=abc7ny.com|date=November 6, 2012|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref>

In October 2013, City Ordinance 13.097 passed requiring employers with ten or more employees to offer up to five [[sick leave|paid sick days]] a year. The bill impacts an estimated 30,000 workers at all businesses who employ workers who work at least 80 hours a calendar year in Jersey City.<ref>Murphy, Meredith R. [http://www.natlawreview.com/article/jersey-city-passes-paid-sick-leave-law "Jersey City Passes Paid Sick Leave Law"], ''[[The National Law Review]]'', October 16, 2013. Accessed April 1, 2015.</ref> The passage of the ordinance made Jersey City the first municipality in New Jersey and the sixth in the United States to guarantee paid sick leave.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://populardemocracy.org/news-article/news-and-publications-jersey-city-council-passes-earned-sick-days-bill-become-first-city-nj/|title=Jersey City Council Passes Earned Sick Days Bill To Become First City In NJ To Guarantee Sick Days|website=populardemocracy.org|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref>

From 2018 to 2023, Jersey City built a new municipal complex called Jackson Square in the [[Jackson Hill, Jersey City|Jackson Hill]] section of the [[Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City|Bergen-Lafayette]] neighborhood. Planned since 2014, the city had previously rented office space throughout the city for its multiple agencies. The complex is made up of a City Hall Annex for several agencies, parking garage and public safety headquarters for the Jersey City Police and Fire Departments.<ref name="Annex"/><ref name="PSHQ"/>