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====Bergen-Lafayette==== [[File:MH-65-Statue of Liberty 120604-G-NB914-114.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Liberty Island]] and [[Liberty State Park]]]] [[File:AstorPlace.BergenHill.JerseyCity.jpg|thumb|Astor Place on Bergen Hill]] [[Bergen-Lafayette, Jersey City|Bergen-Lafayette]], formerly [[Bergen City, New Jersey]], lies between Greenville to the south and [[McGinley Square]] to the north, while bordering [[Liberty State Park]] and [[Downtown Jersey City|Downtown]] to the east and the [[West Side, Jersey City|West Side]] neighborhood to the west. [[Communipaw|Communipaw Avenue]], Bergen Avenue, Martin Luther King Drive, and Ocean Avenue are main thoroughfares. The former [[Jersey City Medical Center]] complex, a cluster of [[Art Deco]] buildings on a rise in the center of the city, has been converted into residential complexes called [[Beacon, Jersey City|The Beacon]].<ref>Hampson, Rick. [https://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-04-15-jersey-city_N.htm "Model of urban future: Jersey City?"], ''[[USA Today]]'', April 16, 2007. Accessed December 21, 2011. "This was the former Jersey City Medical Center, a cluster of Art Deco buildings on a rise in the center of the city, far from the booming waterfront. Now the medical center was becoming The Beacon condominium complex, one of the nation's largest historic renovation projects."</ref> Completed in 2016 at a cost of $38 million, (~${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=38000000|start_year=2016}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) [[Berry Lane Park]] is located along Garfield Avenue in the northern section of Bergen-Lafayette; covering {{convert|17.5|acre}}, it is the largest municipal park in Jersey City.<ref>Ojutiku, Mak. [https://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/2016/06/jersey_citys_news_38m_park_als.html "Jersey City opens new $38M Berry Lane Park"], NJ Advance Media for [[NJ.com]], June 27, 2016, updated January 16, 2019. Accessed November 13, 2019. "Mayor Steve Fulop and city officials held a grand opening ceremony Saturday for the city's first new municipal park in decades, Berry Lane Park, the largest open park owned by the city. To further commemorate the opening of the $38 million, 17.5-acre recreational area, the Bergen-Lafayette park between Garfield Avenue and Woodward Street was the location of a family day festival, which was attended by hundreds of residents on Saturday."</ref> The Jersey City Municipal Complex opened in phases at Jackson Square in the [[Jackson Hill, Jersey City|Jackson Hill]] neighborhood from 2018 to 2023.<ref name=Annex>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/2018/04/city_hall_annex_to_be_part_of_1.html|title=City Hall Annex at Hub in Jersey City to be part of rebranded 'Jackson Square'|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=April 21, 2018|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref><ref name=PSHQ>{{cite web|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2023/04/jersey-city-unveils-public-safety-headquarters-will-it-boost-bergen-lafayette-neighborhood.html|title=Jersey City unveils public safety headquarters; will it boost Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood?|publisher=The Jersey Journal|date=April 11, 2023|access-date=February 21, 2025}}</ref>
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