Jersey City
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- proper noun
- /ˈdʒɜrzi ˈsɪti/
- Many families chose to relocate to Jersey City for its affordable housing and proximity to Manhattan.
- Jersey City, N.J.
- Jersey City Mayor
- Jersey City apartment
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One of the new improvements, officials say, could be a new station in northern Jersey City, which they say could accommodate and develop new housing and business opportunities.
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Unfortunately, New York has overshadowed and destroyed Jersey City and its history.
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For example, when the people from Jersey City voted, did they know or care that unemployment in the town was double the national average?
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The area by the Jersey City waterfront did not fare well.
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On the outskirts of Jersey City, he finds the suburban street he is looking for.
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Also, the Dutch settled in what is now Jersey City in the early 1600s.
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My street in the Jersey City Powerhouse Arts District is one of the ones that flooded significantly.
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In Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York, drivers negotiated intersections without the aid of traffic lights.
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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said that limited PATH service would be reinstated, with fares waived, between Journal Square in Jersey City and 33rd Street in Manhattan, though stops would not be made at Christopher and Ninth Streets.
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Monday, November 12th: "Dozens of Teamsters and their families were already at the Red Cross's Jersey City warehouse at 7:30 this morning, and more were on the way to pack, load, and drive supplies to Superstorm Sandy victims."
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Jersey + city
This is a place-name formed from a proper name + the noun 'city'; a B1 learner who knows 'Jersey' as a name and 'city' will readily infer it is a city called Jersey. While detailed geographic information (its location opposite Manhattan) requires extra world knowledge, the basic referential meaning is transparently derived from its constituents.
Etymology
Jersey City gets its name from the island of Jersey in the English Channel, because an early leader from that island helped start the area. So the town took the name 'New Jersey' and became the City of Jersey, which is why the modern name links the place to that island.