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Five Corners is a neighborhood located at the intersection of Summit Avenue, Newark Avenue, and Hoboken Avenue in

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, and is situated in the northeastern portion of the larger

Journal Square Journal Square is a business district, residential area, and transportation hub in Jersey City, New Jersey. It is named for the newspaper ''Jersey Journal'', whose headquarters were located there from 1911 to 2013. The "square" itself is at the ...

district. The name of the intersection is used for the neighborhood radiating from the crossing, which is adjacent to the Hilltop, just south of Bergen Arches and The Divided Highway. In the 19th century, the area was the crossroads where Newark Plank Road descended to either Hoboken or Paulus Hook, while Summit Avenue traveled north thorough Bergen Woods or south through Bergen Square to Communipaw.United States Coast Guard Survey: ''New York Bay and Harbor and Environs'', Washington, D.C., 1844-45 Five Corners is where the

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Hudson County Hudson County is a List of counties in New Jersey, county in the U.S. state of New Jersey, its smallest and most densely populated. Lying in the northeast of the state and on the west bank of the North River (Hudson River), Hudson River, the No ...

is located. The Hudson County Courthouse is at Newark and Baldwin Avenues.. The Hudson County Administration Building, at 595 Newark Avenue, is home to many county agencies and departments. The Five Corners Branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library is sited on the intersection itself. The (original) Jersey City High School, now William L. Dickinson High School, at 2 Palisade Avenue is nearby. The Journal Square Transportation Center, providing train (

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) and bus (mostly from NJ Transit) service, lies just south of the intersection on Summit Avenue.

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is located just west along Newark Avenue at Kennedy Boulevard. The many stores around the intersection create a

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, including one of the first

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groceries, Phil-Am Food Mart (now known as Phil-Am Merchandising and Casa Victoria), and

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. A popular bakery chain in the Philippines,

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, opened its first store on the East Coast in 2006 on Summit Avenue.

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