Communipaw Cove Speech

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There is a city in New Jersey by New York. There is a city in which it has New Jersey’s second largest population. It’s also the same city with the highest diversity percentage in NJ with 76%. That city, which is the home to a Krispy Kreme, and the birthplace of business mogul and magnate, Martha Stewart, is none other than Jersey City. Jersey City has many roads, who knew? But there was this one road, which is rarely used, other than our 45th President Donald J. Trump. He said something, something which was upsetting, something that Kellyanne Conway would do her 72-second explanation. The comment that muslims in Jersey City were celebrating the falling of the Twin Towers during 9/11. Sad, but not true. Let’s get on rolling on! Rollin’ to the …show more content…
Why? It is located in Liberty State Park and is minutes away from Ellis Island, when taking a ferry. They together form the Big Three, not the Greek Gods, and that’s a plus, because we do not need to waste gas to go to Mount Olympus! It was built on the framework for Communipaw Cove. This was a settlement founded by the Dutch West India Company. Communipaw Cove was in a marsh-like environment. Even today, around the station, you can still see some of the marsh-like spots. This terminal started with the Railroad Era in 1840, where track-laying began to reach its golden age. New Jersey soon purchased Somerville and Easton Railroad companies. These companies were known for their service near Elizabeth and Somerville. Commuter trains, still in fact go through these towns. Take the Raritan Valley Line whenever you have a chance. Around 1860, New Jersey soon began to lay track from Newark Bay to Bayonne, and also the Hudson River, which would interact with the Pennsylvania Railroad. This was profitable, and this was used significantly during the Civil War. Soldiers and much needed supplies were constantly being sent to the South for the …show more content…
More than 10 million people were being processed their entry into the United States as they passed through Ellis Island. Robert Larkins accounts the train station like this, “The terminal was no mere train station. It was a railroad maritime passenger terminal, an intermodal facility where people change from one mode of transportation to another.” When you have that many immigrants passing through, it’s more than having the feeling of watching people pass by on Times Square and taking pictures of everything they’ve seen, but feel they haven’t. As there was an influx of people passing by, the terminal also began having cars of coal from Pennsylvania, and were then transported to New York via a barge. You have so many things going on under one roof right here. People coming from abroad, people working their regular duties for the freight trains, and regular commuters and passengers going and coming home, or anywhere else. Plus, during this mini Golden-Age in Jersey City, it just kept getting better. Close late 1902, there were new commuter rails added on, one being the Queen of Valley. It was an express train running from Jersey City to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. But aside from the Queen of Valley, their most fame was from the Blue Comet. The Blue Comet train ran from Jersey City to Atlantic City, and had the features of an Amtrak Train today. The train ran from 1929 to 1940, and the use of the

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