How to Spend a Day in Jersey City: Art Galleries, Food Tours, and More

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Jersey City, New Jersey's second-largest city, sits directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan (second only to Newark).

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It's been called one of the nation's most ethnically diverse cities, and it's undergone a decade-long transformation thanks to a flood of new inhabitants priced out of New York City and Brooklyn.

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As a result, several new and wonderful restaurants and pubs have opened.

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In 2018, it was announced that a satellite campus of Paris' Centre Pompidou library would open here in 2024.

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You can read about Jersey City's metamorphosis, but you can't come and see it for yourself.

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Uber and Lyft can get you where public transportation can't.

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Just don't call JC a New York suburb or the sixth borough; proud Jerseyans won't appreciate it.

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How to Spend a Day in Jersey City: Art Galleries, Food Tours, and More

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