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August numbers are in and Jersey Digs is getting big! What began as a hobby a little over a year ago, has since grown to be the 2nd largest website in Hudson County.

The $230 million Rebuild By Design project, which aims to curb flooding in parts of Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City, hit another major milestone late last week when the Department of Environmental Protection announced what they’ll be building and what it will look like, although the benefits of the undertaking are still a few years away.

When the first plane hit the World Trade Center 15 years ago, three PATH trains were en route to the station below the buildings. One train was abandoned under the station when the towers fell. Now, 15 years later, cars from that train are open to the public.

Joel Maffei, co-founder/director of Pacific Flea, brings quality vendors, artists and musical acts to the Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood on second Saturdays, April-October. The next market is September 10 and the final market October 8.

Under new ownership, the Silk Mill Lofts complex in Union City will see a multi-million dollar capital improvement project that hopes to further establish the complex as an urban arts center.

Jersey City’s western expansion is showing no signs of slowing down, with the city’s Lafayette neighborhood the latest to reap the rewards of revitalization.

Jersey City. Home of Ellis Island, The Statue of Liberty, Exchange Place, Journal Square, waterfront views of the NYC Skyline, birthplace of Martha Stewart, and now home of the HARBORSIDE CRAFT BREW FEST!

For all of its history, Jersey City has been a conduit for transport between NYC and the rest of the country. Over time, the logistics of transportation has changed leaving artifacts of a bygone era all over the city. Now the long forgotten Bergen Arches are the subject of a proposed community-based redevelopment project led by local residents and activists.

Just 4 years ago, Jersey City was struggling to connect bike paths to Hoboken. Now that seems so, pardon the pun, pedestrian, as JC is now part of a 3000-mile bike path connecting Maine to Key West!

With revitalization in Jersey City gradually moving further west, a new proposal is being put together for 39 New York Avenue in The Heights by a development group that’s been in business for almost 38 years.