Jersey City Community Group Urges Residents To ‘Save The Migrant Garden’ Before It’s Too Late
Adrienne J. Romero
April 9, 2026
“This seems to be a dark time again. A [community] garden can bring people together.”
“This seems to be a dark time again. A [community] garden can bring people together.”
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“I would just note that everyday this entity is not funded, it’s another day that an episode is waiting to happen.”
“It is more about us collectively trying to become and—I include myself—more wiser and sensitive viewers of the vocabulary of cinema [and The Sting].”
“… We wanted to bring something to the [Jersey City] South Side that people could come in and enjoy… It’s nice being on this side of town.”
Photo by Jordan Coll / SOC Images. After 154 years, the closure of Heights University Hospital (HRH)—long known to generations as Christ Hospital—came to be, after its owners shuttered the last remaining emergency department. Jersey City officials warned that the city, home to more than 300,000 residents, would be left
“The public’s right to participate in public meetings was compromised [at Liberty State Park].”
“I think that taking these already existing green spaces and activating them will sort of build it into the urban fabric [in Jersey City].”
“I love to walk around and contemplate, you know, the world or my mind. I love to walk around Jersey City, and Jersey City feeds that to me.”
“Sometimes, if it was between having to pay the electricity bill or the wifi, we would have to sacrifice the wifi.”
