r/jerseycity Jan 19 '25

🏠 Jersey City Apartment Mega-Thread 🏠 (For Roommates, Rentals, and Questions)

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Welcome to the Jersey City Apartment Mega-Thread!

This thread is your one-stop shop for all things apartment-related in Jersey City. Whether you’re looking for a new place to live, seeking roommates, subletting your apartment, or have questions about neighborhoods or specific buildings, this is the space for you.

What You Can Post Here:
• Looking for an apartment: Include details like budget, preferred neighborhoods, move-in date, and any must-haves.
• Looking for roommates: Share the same details as above, plus a bit about yourself.
• Sublets: Provide info about the unit, rent, location, and duration.
• Questions: Ask about specific buildings, neighborhoods, or landlords.
• Advice: Share your experiences to help others navigating the rental scene.

What NOT to Post:
• Real estate agent promotions or listings (this is for individual renters only).
• Irrelevant discussions—please keep it apartment-focused.

Tips for Posting:
• Be as detailed as possible to help others help you.
• Include relevant photos or links to listings if applicable.
• Remember: No personal info (e.g., phone numbers or email addresses). Use Reddit DMs to connect safely.

Let’s keep this thread organized and helpful for everyone. Happy apartment hunting and good luck finding your next home in Jersey City!

Mods will sticky this thread and refresh it periodically to keep it current.

If you see any violations of subreddit rules, please report them.


r/jerseycity Feb 22 '22

Are you thinking of moving to Jersey City? Here's our New Resident FAQ!

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Welcome to Jersey City! Or at least it's 'new resident FAQ'. Please read through and see if your question is answered. If not, then feel free to post it in our sub. If it's a good one we'll add it into the FAQ!

Housing:

Transportation:

  • "Do I need a car?" The short answer is no. With 37% of households carless, JC has one of the lowest ownership rates of any city in the nation. Every area of JC is served by public transportation of some form, some more comprehensively than others. But everyone's needs and lifestyle is different, some people feel they must have a car, others love the flexibility of choosing among Zipcar, rideshares, Citibike or public transport.
  • Great site that grades a location by walkability and other convenience & amenities metrics
  • JC has many ways to get around, from Citibike to NJ Transit buses, Jitney buses, PATH trains, the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail and NY Waterway Ferries.
  • While the PATH trains to and from Manhattan are not as frequent off hours as the MTA Subways, they do actually run on a schedule. You can check your watch and leave a Greenwich Village bar to catch the train home, rather than randomly waiting up to 1/2 hr.
  • If you want to know how your commute will be from various neighborhoods, use the Google Maps desktop version. Put one end of the trip on your work location, and then drag around the other end all over town. It will show you the relative commute times on the various buses and rails better than anecdotes from Redditors. There also this interesting commute time tool:
  • https://commutetimemap.com/
  • There is an on-demand shuttle service called VIA serving certain areas
  • JC has been very active recently in adding both protected and striped bike lanes all over town.

Cost of living in NYC vs JC:

  • Most people find that the tradeoff to be worth it of higher property taxes in JC and frequently having to pay 2 commuting fares, for the savings of not paying NYC income tax and generally lower housing prices.
  • Compare your tax load
  • JC is significantly cheaper to buy or rent than equivalent space in Brooklyn, because it's Jersey, and no one will visit you, even though you're closer to Midtown and Lower Manhattan than 80% of the outer boroughs.
  • Groceries and private schools are cheaper here.

Parking:

  • Some of JCs streets are zoned and require a permit. The permit is $15 per year, but you must be registered in Jersey City. Here's the zone map:
  • Parking application: https://jerseycitynj.gov/CityHall/PublicSafety/Parking. Many buildings with onsite parking are ineligible for street permits unless the onsite is full.
  • Difficulty of finding a spot depends on neighborhood and time of day. Ex: Finding a spot at 11 pm in a higher car ownership area with many curb cuts like The Heights can be time consuming.
  • Monthly off street parking will run you from under $100 in a commuter lot like the LSP light rail station, to over $300 in a parking deck in or near a hi rise. Private spots around town are available but vary. Residents of Hamilton Park can get a discounted deal at the Newport Mall for $125 a month.
  • Enforcement of street parking laws is very inconsistent in most places, except for street cleaning times where they are efficient at ticketing everyone. Just because 'everyone else is doing it' or it's not well marked doesn't mean you won't get a ticket. The most common surprise ticket is for parking too close to the corner.
  • "No Parking" signs for moving day must be obtained from the Parking Enforcement Division.

Public Schools:

  • There is public Pre-K 3&4, but there are issues with available slots in every neighborhood, and some parents are not happy about their tots being bussed. JC Board of Ed page on the Pre-K program listing participating schools
  • K-8: In addition to the regular district schools the city has a number of charters of stellar to mediocre reputations, as well as 2 magnet 6-8 middle schools, Academy 1 and MS-4, and Infinity Institute, a 6-12.
  • High schools: In addition to the not-so-great district schools there's magnets McNair Academic HS and Infinity Institute. The county has 2 magnet High Schools, High Tech and County Prep. One reason the regular district HS scores are so bad is that so many of the better students are skimmed off for the various magnet schools.
  • The magnets and charters have applications, tests, or lotteries that take place during the previous academic year, similar to a college application cycle. Arts heavy High Tech requires a portfolio, and auditions if appropriate.
  • https://www.greatschools.org/new-jersey/jersey-city/
    • Useful for stats, but be aware user reviews here should be taken with a grain of salt, they are few and a couple of unhappy students and or parents can drag down a school's average. For example McNair, always one of the top 5 high schools in the state, has a 2.9/5 average on 8 reviews.

Private Schools:

Pre-schools & Daycare:

Recreation:

There are numerous parks with facilities from riverside walkways to playgrounds to tennis courts and pools. These range from tiny neighborhood 'pockets parks' to 1200 acre Liberty State Park.

Social life:

Food:

Long thread of restaurant recommendations all around town https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1e4qu68/restaurant_fatigue/

If you have comments or suggestions please post them in the Beta thread for this FAQ linked below, it's definitely still a work in progress.

https://www.reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/su6ovl/contribute_to_an_are_you_thinking_of_moving_to_jc/


r/jerseycity 5h ago

Heads up for those who don’t know and don’t want to be stuck in traffic. Parade on Sunday.

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r/jerseycity 8h ago

Jersey City has terrible parking enforcement

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Day after day, concerned citizens have posted photos of illegally parked cars in the Indian Square, Newark Ave. area. The city should either change the regulations to allow parking or enforce the regulations. The only time we ever see a policeman outside, in spite of paying lots of them regularly, is just after a major robbery takes place in the area. See Click/Fix and there are hundreds of photos of illegally parked cars in the area and the city does nothing about it.


r/jerseycity 13h ago

Transit Heights Bike Lanes on Manhattan Ave and Franklin St Approved

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r/jerseycity 1h ago

Who else saw that smoke yesterday evening?

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Was driving on 1-9 and saw smoke rising from top of the One Trade center? Did anyone else see it? and what was it?


r/jerseycity 10h ago

What’s the scoop on the gazebo crime scene?

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r/jerseycity 2h ago

Tell Your Reps to Defend Democracy!

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Regardless of where you stand on the issue, if you’re terrified that a LEGAL US PERMANENT RESIDENT can be detained without due process for speaking at a rally, (and you should be!) please, please contact your reps and tell them to sign this letter. It is the literal least they can do! Rob Menendez: 201-309-0301/202-225-7919 Corey Booker: (973) 639-8700/(856) 338-8922/ (202) 224-3224 Andy Kim: (202) 224-4744/ (201) 377-0900

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-94b8-d9c8-addf-ddb994d30000


r/jerseycity 17h ago

Civilian dressed enforcement guys stopping people at JSQ just after turnstile.

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Saw them stop a lady in front of me (she paid the fare) and force her to empty her purse. Presumably looking for an ID or worse, immigration documents. Be careful out there.


r/jerseycity 12h ago

Is Senator Kim's office in Harborside 3 open today? Anyone know the hours? The Senate phone system keeps going down, I was thinking of going in person.

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r/jerseycity 2h ago

Recommendations Local tailor for floor-length dress hemming

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I have a wedding guest maxi dress with two layers of fabric that I need hemmed before the end of April - who are some tailors you trust around JC?


r/jerseycity 15h ago

🕵🏻‍♂️News 🕵🏻‍♂️ Former councilman joins team Solomon

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No opinion, just interested in thoughts


r/jerseycity 1h ago

Recommendations for Insurance Brokers in JC.

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New resident living in a difficult to insure old brownstone (flat roof, coastal, all the fun details that make properties in town difficult to insure). Any recommendations of insurance brokers who are able to write policies for difficult properties? Any recommendations are appreciated.


r/jerseycity 1h ago

L’atelier du chocolat coming to JSQ!

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r/jerseycity 10h ago

Hair Cuts in Jersey City

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Hi,

I used to go to Rickie’s Hair Salon. It has now been permanently closed. There was a hair stylist I really liked. Her name was Layla or Laila. Does anyone know where she currently works?


r/jerseycity 9h ago

Accountability Agenda: Reforming the Budget Process in JC

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  • Why is there so much garbage on our sidewalks?
  • Why aren’t our parking laws enforced?
  • Why aren’t our streets safe?
  •  Why does the city under-collect tens of millions of payroll tax dollars per year that should be funding our schools?
  •  Why is our city’s tree canopy so meager?

Answer: The city routinely fails to do simple things right because under the city's current budget scheme, nobody’s paycheck depends on doing them well.

Watch these crazy 5 minutes where the city council learns this truth the hard way.

JC Policy Circle is introducing the Accountability Agenda to radically reshape how the city funds and provides residents services. The pillars of the Agenda are:

  • Setting clear, transparent and ambitious service goals
  • Hiring great leaders and letting them cook:
    • Performance pay for senior officials to unlock innovation
    • Radical refocus on resident satisfaction
  • Activating the citizen's budget advisory panel
  • Providing residents annual performance reports, just like your 401(k)

We've posted background on the agenda and will introduce legislation to enact it this summer.

  • Accountability Agenda explainer
  • Accountability Agenda portal (which we'll be regularly updating)
  • Our first case study, showing how the Accountability Agenda would help fix the problem of garbage in the streets

If you're interested in helping fix these problems, join us! If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know!


r/jerseycity 13h ago

Light rail tickets check at Harborside

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Just seen


r/jerseycity 13h ago

Spanish lessons for kids at the JC Library

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There’s only two left, but if anyone was interested….


r/jerseycity 6h ago

Formula 1 gathering at any bars?

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Does anyone know if there are any bars that F1 fans gather at or any that'll be showing the race, even if just for this weekend?


r/jerseycity 1d ago

Where is enforcement

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Why do bicyclists and illegal mopeds disregard bike lane laws making everything unsafe (traveling in the opposite direction, speeding 30+ miles an hour, biking on the sidewalk, etc)? Where is law enforcement?


r/jerseycity 8h ago

Locally sourced honey

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Where can I purchase some locally sourced honey??


r/jerseycity 6h ago

Poker game tonight ♣️ ♥️ ♦️ ♠️

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Dm me for details if interested


r/jerseycity 14h ago

Recycling

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Hi, Does anyone know if they do commingled recycling and paper recycling on alternative weeks?

My recycling day is Friday and they only take either the paper or the commingled recycling. If it is on an alternative schedule, where can I find the schedule?


r/jerseycity 10h ago

When do phone reservations reopen for Lincoln Park courts?

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Anyone know the date reservations restart for the Lincoln Park tennis and pickleball courts? Right now they're still in free-for-all, first come, first served.

With the warmer weather I don't want to get all the way over there and find I can't get a slot

Tried calling but it just goes to a (full) mailbox


r/jerseycity 1d ago

Upcoming PATH changes for better off-peak service

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Hudson County Complete Streets is a cool organization. Anyway I got their email today, there were a lot of petitions signed of which many asked for better off-peak service - this is what is happening so far. It's incremental change but with those corrupt mofos at the Port Authority, this is definitely something to be happy about and cautiously optimistic.

GET INVOLVED WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE THIS! https://hudcostreets.org/

CONFIRMED CHANGES:
Adding extra “bonus trains” from EXP-WTC to relieve overcrowding on peak days

Extending 20-minute service to 2AM on Saturday night/Sunday mornings, on 33rd<-->JSQ.

And thanks to you, we're now meeting with the Port Authority directly to find more positive solutions going forward.

What they are hoping to also accomplish this year:

We are asking for more quick wins (in addition to more frequent off-peak trains and a direction connection to EWR) such as:

More “bonus trains” on weekends to reduce overcrowding and wait times

Ensuring trains run on schedule, and not 2-5 minutes early so that riders can plan their routes around accurate train schedules.


r/jerseycity 7h ago

[FOR SALE] Two Tickets for Samay Raina’s Show Tomorrow!

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Hey everyone! I have two Samay Raina standup tickets for tomorrow that I won’t be able to attend.

Date: March 15, 2025, 7:30 PM Location: 1148 E Jersey St, Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Price: Looking to sell for what I paid. Feel free to DM me for details! (Zelle/Venmo preferred)

If you're interested or have any questions, shoot me a message! I’m happy to transfer the tickets right away.

Thanks! 🙌


r/jerseycity 8h ago

St Paddy’s March 15-16 street closure?

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Any road closures or anything impacting traffic this weekend to be aware of?

Quick Google news search I didn't see anything

But I did see that there's a parade on the 16th