Editing Jersey City, New Jersey (section)

====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"/>