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The Bergen Section of Jersey City, New Jersey is the neighborhood on either side of Kennedy Boulevard between Saint Peter's College/ McGinley Square and Communipaw Avenue in the Bergen-Lafayette section of the city. The name Bergen, used throughout Hudson County, is taken from the original Bergen, New Netherland settlement at Bergen Square. While there was discussion of building a county long road as early as the 1870s, the Boulevard was officially opened in 1896. In the early automobile age it became part of the route of the Lincoln Highway and one of the busiest roads in the state.〔http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F00C1FF7345F157A93C6A9178ED85F4D8185F9 HC Blvd. 1919〕 Bergen Avenue is a major north-south thoroughfare in the city running south from Journal Square along the ridge of the diminishing Hudson Palisades known as Bergen Hill. Monticello Avenue, which takes its name from mid 19th "suburban" development,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Page Not Found )〕 is a shopping district〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jersey City Shopping Districts )〕 lined with many turn-of-the-century buildings with storefronts being brought back into use. As its name suggests West Bergen overlaps this neighborhood. The section retains much of the character that at one time made it the premiere 20th century residential district of the city.〔 〕 A variety of architectural styles can be found along the Boulevard, Bergen Avenue, and sidestreets including 19th-century rowhouses, Victorian and Edwardian mansions. Many of the multi-family buildings are pre-war, built during the period of expansive growth in the 1920s and 1930s, sometimes Art Deco style. including The Hague, residence of one of the city's best-known mayor, Frank Hague.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PHOTOS: Fire at historic 2600 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City )〕 Among the many landmarks in the area are the Fairmount Apartments,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fairmount Hotel Apartments )〕 Temple Beth-El, and the former Jersey City YMCA. ''Lincoln the Mystic'', a statue of a seated Abraham Lincoln by James Earle Fraser is situated at the entrance to the park which bears the president's name. and is one of the Hudson County's largest public green spaces.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Abraham Lincoln Association of Jersey City )〕〔http://travel.sulekha.com/jersey-city-attractions.htm#Lincoln Park〕 ==Historic district== In 1997, the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office listed part of the neighborhood the ''West Bergen Historic District'' on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. In 2011, The New Jersey Historic Trust" Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund provided the city with a $50,000 grant to conduct studies to determine if the area qualifies as a federal historic district. It describes it as architecturally significant with a diverse collection of mostly residential building built between 1880s and 1930s. There are approximately 300 to 400 contributing property, some of which are large homes not found in the city's other historic districts, which are located Downtown. In 2014 The Jersey City Landmarks Conservancy proposed an area which is larger than the state-designated one called the ''West Bergen-East Lincoln Park Historic District''. Approval was required by the city, and the ordinance was passed in June 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historic district may come to Jersey City's West Side )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=It's neighbor vs. neighbor in fight for new Jersey City historic district )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=City Council introduces ordinance to create new Jersey City historic district )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jersey City City Council approves controversial West Side historic district )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bergen Section, Jersey City」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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