Harsimus






At the Grove Street Station looking west on Newark Avenue


Harsimus (also known as Harsimus Cove) is a neighborhood within Downtown Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. The neighborhood stretches from the Harsimus Stem Embankment (the Sixth Street Embankment) on the north to Christopher Columbus Drive on the south between Coles Street and Grove Street[1] or more broadly, to Marin Boulevard. It borders the neighborhoods of Hamilton Park to the north, Van Vorst Park to the south, the Village to the west, and the Powerhouse Arts District to the east. Newark Avenue has traditionally been its main street.[2] The name is from the Lenape, used by the Hackensack Indians who inhabited the region and could be translated as Crow’s Marsh.[3] From many years, the neighborhood was part of the "Horseshoe", a political delineation created by its position between the converging rail lines and political gerrymandering.[4]




Contents






  • 1 Early settlement


  • 2 Rise of the railroad and Hague


  • 3 Post industrial era


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References





Early settlement


Harsimus is a derivative of a Lenape phrase, possibly meaning Crow's Marsh. Spellings include: Aharsimus,[5]Ahasimus,[6][7]Hasymes,[8]Haassemus, Hahassemes, Hasimus, Horseemes, Hasseme,[9]Horsimus [10] In current Lenape, ahas means "crow".[11]




1664 Duke's Plan showing settlements at Harsimus and Communipaw at time of the surrender of Fort Amsterdam


In 1629, the Dutchman Michael Reyniersz Pauw obtained a patent for all the land in what would become Hudson County, naming it Pavonia. Unable to fulfill a patroon charter provision that he set up a plantation with fifty permanent settlers, the Dutch West India Company sold a part to his superintendent, who had built a homestead in 1634 and was the first of many Van Vorsts to play important roles in the development of the city. A family homestead built in 1647 was demolished in 1967.[12] Conflict with Native Americans compromised the settlement 1643, which continued to grow after the 1645 treaty ending Kieft's War. Again in 1655, the area was attacked in a conflict called the Peach Tree War. In 1660, it came under the jurisdiction of Bergen, New Netherland the main village of which was located at Bergen Square.[13]



Stone church building


Grace Church Van Vorst, name for the prominent family Van Vorst, on Erie Street, named for the railroad




Busy port city, 1882


Once the area was ceded to the British after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam, New York claimed ownership to the high waterline along the west bank of the Hudson River and that any pier built there was under its jurisdiction, thus stifling development which would compete with the burgeoning New York City. Paulus Hook was the first to urbanize, and The City of Jersey was incorporated in various forms in 1820, 1829, and again in 1838.[14] John Coles, a merchant from New York, was among the first to expand into Harsimus.[15] The Supreme Court settled the matter of jurisdiction in the 1830s, creating a border mid-river. Harsimus grew with shipping along shoreline and residences farther inland.[16] The short-lived Van Vorst Township later merged with its neighbor. Much of the housing stock from the maritime era is still intact. Many of the streets in the gridiron laid at the time have been renamed over the years. Moving away from the river they were originally called Hudson, River, Kelso, and Barnum. Provost and others to the west have stayed the same.[17]



Rise of the railroad and Hague




Though the cove extended farther north, today Harsimus is considered to be the area between the two former PRR lines. PAD is in its southeast corner.


Harsimus was transformed by the development of the railroad industry.[18] By 1870 much of the estuary flood zone was land-filled for the development of railyards, extending a quarter mile from Henderson Street. Three elevated right of ways were built: one from the Bergen Arches to the Erie Railroad Pavonia Terminal,[19][20] the Harsimus Stem Embankment[21][22] at 6th Street for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), and another for its Jersey City Branch along Railroad Avenue (now Columbus Drive) to Exchange Place. The embankments and elevated lines separated adjoining neighborhoods. A small slip was created and still is called Harsimus Cove. Huge stockyards dominated the waterfront between the train terminals.[23]


Harsimus' isolation was codified with gerrymandering, forming a horseshoe and creating a new nickname. The community consisted of Catholic immigrants, many of them Irish, who worked on the railroad. Infuxes of Ellis Island immigrants swelled the population. A vestige of the Slavic character of the area remains at the Ukrainian National Home. To diminish the Democratic power base, Republican power brokers redrew the voting district to consist solely of the Horseshoe so that they may protect other seats from Democratic threat. In the 1910s the Horseshoe power base produced the infamous Mayor Frank Hague who dominated the Hudson County political machine and influenced city, county, state, and federal politics for most of the first half of the 20th century. In 1941 a large fire struck the Horsehoe waterfront.[24]



Post industrial era
















































Harsimus Cove Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

New Jersey Register of Historic Places



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Fountain and Park on Second and Grove Street.




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Location Roughly bounded by Grove, Bay & First Sts., Jersey Avenue, Second, & Coles Sts., Jersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates 40°43′24″N 74°2′41″W / 40.72333°N 74.04472°W / 40.72333; -74.04472
Area 60 acres (24 ha)
Architect Multiple
Architectural style Late 19th And 20th Greek Revival, Late Victorian, Beaux Arts
NRHP reference #
87002118[25]
NJRHP # 1509[26]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP December 9, 1987
Designated NJRHP October 15, 1987

In the late 1950s, container shipping in Port Newark supplanted railroad ports along waterfront, which by the 1970s were abandoned, leading to a decline in population and economic activity. Urban renewal projects brought slum clearance of tenements along Grove Street as well as the removal of the PRR elevated rail right of way. Middle, low income, and senior housing projects were developed. A section of Grove Street was renamed Manila Avenue in recognition of the city's resident Overseas Filipinos. Henderson Street became Marin Boulevard for the first governor of Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín to reflect the influx of Puerto Rican and Filipino residents. Railroad Avenue is now Columbus Drive, acknowledging the still large Italian population.


The renewal did not affect the 19th century blocks which were not demolished. A historic preservation movement and real estate reinvestment led to Harsimus's designation as a Historic District in 1987.[27] Convenience to mass transit and relatively affordable rents attracted an artistic community, some of whom converted buildings to live/work spaces. Zoning in the form of "WALDO" (or Work and Live District Overlay) were unsuccessful in preserving and stimulating the creation of an arts district within the area where large warehouses still remained, and have given way the Powerhouse Arts District and the construction of residential highrises.


East of the neighborhood, the LeFrak Organization obtained title to most of the disused Erie-Lackawanna land and began the development of Newport, centered around the Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH) Newport Station in the 1980s.[28] To the south, the PRR abbatoir were also acquired.[29] Development plans did not include extending the 19th century urban grid to the waterfront, but the construction of large parking decks at the former and strip mall at the latter. The first segment of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail opened in 2002, including the Harsimus Cove Station nearby the landmark Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Powerhouse.



See also



  • New Netherland

  • Communipaw

  • Harsimus Branch

  • Horseshoe, Jersey City

  • Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery

  • List of Registered Historic Places in Hudson County, New Jersey

  • Historic Districts in Hudson County, New Jersey

  • New Netherland settlements

  • English Neighborhood

  • Achter Col

  • Vriessendael

  • Van Vorst Township

  • St. Mary High School (Jersey City, New Jersey)







References





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  2. ^ "Jersey City Shopping Districts". www.jerseycityonline.com.


  3. ^ "Lenape talking dictionary".


  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-23. Retrieved 2009-10-05.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  5. ^ "Jersey City History - Old Bergen - Chapter VII". www.cityofjerseycity.org.


  6. ^ "Swtext New Jersey Tribes 1d". www.hiddenhistory.com.


  7. ^ "Delaware Indian Tribe Villages - Access Genealogy". 9 July 2011.


  8. ^ "RootsWeb.com Home Page". archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com.


  9. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2008-11-01.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  10. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-20. Retrieved 2010-04-01.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)


  11. ^ [1][dead link]


  12. ^ "Van Vorst House".


  13. ^ *Harsimus Cove history


  14. ^ "The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968", John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 146–147.


  15. ^ *Hamilton Park History


  16. ^ "History - Harsimus Cove Association of Jersey City". www.harsimuscove.org.


  17. ^ Hopkins, G.M. Combined Atlas of the State of New Jersey and the County of Hudson, 1873


  18. ^ Short history of Harsimus Cove Archived 2009-02-13 at the Wayback Machine


  19. ^ Jersey City Past and Present: Erie Railroad Terminal Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine


  20. ^ "New-Jersey" (PDF). The New York Times. August 8, 1873.


  21. ^ "The Harsimus Stem Embankment".


  22. ^ "JC Landmarks: Harsimus Stem Embankmentl".


  23. ^ "NY Times 1894" (PDF).


  24. ^ "Jersey City - Historic Preservation Districts". www.cityofjerseycity.org.


  25. ^ National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.


  26. ^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places - Hudson County" (PDF). New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. July 7, 2009. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 5, 2010. Retrieved August 3, 2010.


  27. ^ "Neighborhood Map - Harsimus Cove Association of Jersey City". www.harsimuscove.org.


  28. ^ "Shanghai on the Hudson".


  29. ^ Depalma, Anthony (May 12, 1985). "A $700 Million Plan for Jersey City's Shore". The New York Times.












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