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Published: July 26th 2006
Union City
Union City, New Jersey - United States of AmericaJune 05, 1989
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City official name :Union City
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Founded date : *
Location :New Jersey State
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Elavation :? ft (? m)
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Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²).
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Facts :The area of what is today Union City was originally inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans, but was later settled by the Germans in 1851, who moved across the Hudson River from New York in search of affordable land and open space. From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, German Americans and Dutch dominated the area. They, along with Swiss and Austrian immigrants, founded the European-style lace making industries, for which they were famous. Union City and West New York became the “embroidery capitol of the United States”, and the embroidery industry’s trademark is on the Union City Seal. At the turn of the 20th Century, Irish and Italian immigrants came to the city, and dominated the city until the late 1960s. The first Cuban immigrants arrived in 1940s, having been attracted to the city in search of work after hearing of its famed embroidery factories. Successive waves of immigrants from Eastern Europe, the Near East and Latin America have contributed imagination and skill to the
Union City
Union City, New Jersey - United States of America industry in subsequent years. Then, as today, Union City is a destination for immigrants because it serves as a more affordable and less congested alternative to Manhattan.
Union City was incorporated on June 1, 1925 by merging the two towns of West Hoboken and Union Hill. Interestingly, one of the city’s two high schools, Union Hill High School, continues to bear the name that former town to this day. After World War II, veterans relocated to Bergen County, causing a short-lived decline in the population. In the late 1960s, a large migration of Cuban refugees fleeing Fidel Castro’s regime came and settled in Union City, making Union City the city with the largest Cuban population in the U.S. after Miami, hence its nickname, "Havana on the Hudson." The Cubans have also helped transform Union City into the city that it is today. In recent years however, the Hispanic population has diversified. Today’s influx of immigrants comes from the Dominican Republic, Central and South America. Middle class people from New York City have also settled here.
The easternmost streets of Union City, in particular Mountain Road and Palisade Avenue, boast some impressive views of neighboring Weehawken, Hoboken and the
Union City
Union City, New Jersey - United States of America New York City skyline, a feature which, in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, was exploited by numerous Union City citizens, such as those who stood in the courtyard of the Union City Boxing Club to view the event’s aftereffects. A piece of wreckage from the attack was used to create a monument that now stands in that courtyard.
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