Exchange Place, Jersey City
Exchange Place is a district of Downtown Jersey City, New Jersey that is sometimes referred to as Wall Street West due to the concentration of financial companies that have offices there. The namesake is a square, about 200 feet long, at the foot of Montgomery Street at the waterfront of the Hudson River. This square was created by landfilling the shore at Paulus Hook, and has been a major transportation hub since the colonial era.
View of Exchange Place from One World Trade Center, 2023
Aerial view of Exchange Place in 2010
Jersey City 9/11 Memorial
Lower Manhattan skyline as seen from Exchange Place
The Hudson Waterfront is an urban area of northeastern New Jersey along the lower reaches of the Hudson River, the Upper New York Bay and the Kill van Kull. Though the term can specifically mean the shoreline, it is often used to mean the contiguous urban area between the Bayonne Bridge and the George Washington Bridge that is approximately 19 miles (31 km) long. Historically, the region has been known as Bergen Neck, the lower peninsula, and Bergen Hill, lower Hudson Palisades. It has sometimes been called the Gold Coast.
Hudson Waterfront
Satellite image showing the inner core of the New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary and main waterways of Port of New York and New Jersey. The Hudson Waterfront is situated on the peninsula between the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers, and their bays.
Ellis Island and Downtown Jersey City looking north