Harsimus Cove
Harborside Plaza 8
242 Hudson Street
Not built yet. Jersey City records this as under construction, approved in 2025. Everything below that comes from the development record is the approved plan, not a finished building, and plans change.
Also known as 242 Hudson Street.
Where it is
Map
242 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07311
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The pin is the point every figure on this page is measured from, the walk to the station, the flood reading and the distance to what is going up nearby, and it comes from the Center of the project's own site outline in Jersey City's development record. The street outside is in residential parking zone 4.
7 of 13 kinds of record. On this page: address and lot, flood maps, schools, walk and commute, parking, amenities and press and documents. Not here: homes, year built, stories, tax and assessment, sale prices and what residents say.
At a glance
Positives and negatives
Negatives
- In a high risk flood zone on FEMA’s flood mapa mortgage lender will normally require flood insurance, which is a bill every month on top of the mortgage, and FEMA expects this ground to flood about once a century
- A building is going up within 800 feetnoise, dust and trucks for as long as it takes, and a view that may not survive it
Every line is a fact from further down this page, plus where it sits among the 245 buildings on this site. Nothing is scored and nothing is weighed against anything else, because only you know which of these matters most to you. Price is in neither column, because cheap is good news for a buyer and bad news for a seller, and this page does not know which you are.
Buying and renting
What it costs to rent around here
$4,140
a month for a 2 bedrooms, rent plus utilities, in ZIP 07311 for 2026. This is HUD's figure, set for this ZIP rather than for the whole of Hudson County and for the coming year rather than averaged over the last five.
| Size | Rent | Allowed band |
|---|---|---|
| Studio | $3,610 | $3,249 to $3,971 |
| 1 bedroom | $3,680 | $3,312 to $4,048 |
| 2 bedrooms | $4,140 | $3,726 to $4,554 |
| 3 bedrooms | $5,050 | $4,545 to $5,555 |
| 4 bedrooms | $5,930 | $5,337 to $6,523 |
That is the ZIP, not this building. No public record says what Harborside Plaza 8 charges, and nothing here has been scaled, modelled or guessed down to one address. HUD publishes these to cap what a housing voucher pays, which is why they exist at all; the figure itself is their estimate of rents in 07311. Small Area Fair Market Rents, read 20 October 2026.
The Census Bureau puts the middle rent in Census Tract 76.02 at $3,500 or more a month (American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2019-2023), less than half the figure above. It is not a contradiction and it is not a better number: it counts what sitting tenants are paying, rent controlled and subsidised homes and decade-old leases included, rather than what is being asked now.
The approved plan
What Jersey City has approved here
From Jersey City's development record, read live from the city's map service. This is what the city has approved, not a measurement of a building. Plans are redrawn, home counts move and some approvals are never built at all. Checked 16 October 2026.
Schools
The schools this address is zoned to
Where each zoned school is, so you can see what the walk crosses.
- Harborside Plaza 8
- Zoned school
Jersey City assigns a school by street and house number. These are the rows that cover 242 Hudson Street.
Kindergarten to grade 5
Jersey City median 11.9New Jersey median 11.3
Fewer pupils per teacher means more adults per child. This school is 48 of 52 in Jersey City, fewest first.
Jersey City median 71%New Jersey median 36.7%
How much hardship the school serves. Not a measure of how it teaches. This school is 1 of 53 in Jersey City, lowest first.
Jersey City median 607New Jersey median 435
How big it is. This school is 49 of 53 in Jersey City, smallest first.
The bar is this school. The two marks are the middle school in Jersey City and the middle school in New Jersey on the same measure, taken from the same federal file, so all three are counted the same way. These say how big a school is and how it is staffed. How well it teaches is in the state's own report, linked on its name.
How the state scores it
92.1/100
New Jersey's summative rating for Cornelia F. Bradford School, 2023-24. The state works it out from the parts set out below and assigns the total to the school. It puts Cornelia F. Bradford School ahead of about 99 of every 100 schools in the state.
| What is measured | Scores | Weight | Carries |
|---|---|---|---|
| English language arts proficiencyThe school: 92% | 15% | 14.85 | |
| Mathematics proficiencyThe school: 89.7% | 15% | 14.87 | |
| English language arts growthThe school: 64.5 | 20% | 18.36 | |
| Mathematics growthThe school: 71 | 20% | 19.57 | |
| Progress toward English language proficiencyThe school: 85% | 20% | 19.61 | |
| Chronic absenteeismThe school: 11% | 10% | 4.81 | |
| Added up | 92.06 | ||
What its results have done
Why every line has a hole in it. 2019-20 and 2020-21 are shaded on each chart below because New Jersey cancelled statewide testing in the spring of 2020 and published nothing comparable the year after. The lines break there rather than running straight through years nobody was tested in.
This schoolJersey City medianHigher is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 82.4% | 47.2% |
| 2017-18 | 93.2% | 51.1% |
| 2018-19 | 90.7% | 55.7% |
| 2021-22 | 90.9% | 44.3% |
| 2022-23 | 94.2% | 46.4% |
| 2023-24 | 92.0% | 47% |
This schoolJersey City medianHigher is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 89.8% | 32.7% |
| 2017-18 | 90.8% | 41.8% |
| 2018-19 | 89.7% | 42.6% |
| 2021-22 | 87.8% | 30.7% |
| 2022-23 | 93.5% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 89.7% | 32.4% |
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The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 4.4% | 12.3% |
| 2017-18 | 5.5% | 12.6% |
| 2018-19 | 7.4% | 11.8% |
| 2020-21 | 1.3% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 14.3% | 26.1% |
| 2022-23 | 12.0% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 11.0% | 20.1% |
Grades 6 to 8
Jersey City median 11.9New Jersey median 11.3
Fewer pupils per teacher means more adults per child. This school is 44 of 52 in Jersey City, fewest first.
Jersey City median 71%New Jersey median 36.7%
How much hardship the school serves. Not a measure of how it teaches. This school is 14 of 53 in Jersey City, lowest first.
Jersey City median 607New Jersey median 435
How big it is. This school is 41 of 53 in Jersey City, smallest first.
The bar is this school. The two marks are the middle school in Jersey City and the middle school in New Jersey on the same measure, taken from the same federal file, so all three are counted the same way. These say how big a school is and how it is staffed. How well it teaches is in the state's own report, linked on its name.
How the state scores it
30.2/100
New Jersey's summative rating for Middle School # 4, 2023-24. The state works it out from the parts set out below and assigns the total to the school. It puts Middle School # 4 ahead of about 19 of every 100 schools in the state.
| What is measured | Scores | Weight | Carries |
|---|---|---|---|
| English language arts proficiencyThe school: 62.1% | 15% | 9.17 | |
| Mathematics proficiencyThe school: 51.1% | 15% | 8.31 | |
| English language arts growthThe school: 45 | 20% | 4.65 | |
| Mathematics growthThe school: 45 | 20% | 4.53 | |
| Progress toward English language proficiencyThe school: 15.6% | 20% | 1.97 | |
| Chronic absenteeismThe school: 20% | 10% | 1.61 | |
| Added up | 30.25 | ||
What its results have done
Why every line has a hole in it. 2019-20 and 2020-21 are shaded on each chart below because New Jersey cancelled statewide testing in the spring of 2020 and published nothing comparable the year after. The lines break there rather than running straight through years nobody was tested in.
This schoolJersey City medianHigher is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 49.9% | 47.2% |
| 2017-18 | 61.1% | 51.1% |
| 2018-19 | 57.2% | 55.7% |
| 2021-22 | 54.4% | 44.3% |
| 2022-23 | 57.4% | 46.4% |
| 2023-24 | 62.1% | 47% |
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The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 40.7% | 32.7% |
| 2017-18 | 47.0% | 41.8% |
| 2018-19 | 44.3% | 42.6% |
| 2021-22 | 44.0% | 30.7% |
| 2022-23 | 45.6% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 51.1% | 32.4% |
This schoolJersey City medianLower is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 11.8% | 12.3% |
| 2017-18 | 8.8% | 12.6% |
| 2018-19 | 14.1% | 11.8% |
| 2020-21 | 28.5% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 33.3% | 26.1% |
| 2022-23 | 21.2% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 20.1% |
Grades 9 to 12
Jersey City median 11.9New Jersey median 11.3
Fewer pupils per teacher means more adults per child. This school is 40 of 52 in Jersey City, fewest first.
Jersey City median 71%New Jersey median 36.7%
How much hardship the school serves. Not a measure of how it teaches. This school is 28 of 53 in Jersey City, lowest first.
Jersey City median 607New Jersey median 435
How big it is. This school is 51 of 53 in Jersey City, smallest first.
The bar is this school. The two marks are the middle school in Jersey City and the middle school in New Jersey on the same measure, taken from the same federal file, so all three are counted the same way. These say how big a school is and how it is staffed. How well it teaches is in the state's own report, linked on its name.
How the state scores it
33.8/100
New Jersey's summative rating for James J Ferris High School, 2023-24. The state works it out from the parts set out below and assigns the total to the school. It puts James J Ferris High School ahead of about 25 of every 100 schools in the state.
| What is measured | Scores | Weight | Carries |
|---|---|---|---|
| English language arts proficiencyThe school: 56.8% | 15% | 7.71 | |
| Mathematics proficiencyThe school: 17.9% | 15% | 4.56 | |
| Four year graduation rateThe school: 84.3% | 20% | 2.69 | |
| Five year graduation rateThe school: 82.9% | 20% | 5.83 | |
| Progress toward English language proficiencyThe school: 16.8% | 20% | 8.73 | |
| Chronic absenteeismThe school: 16.4% | 10% | 4.25 | |
| Added up | 33.77 | ||
What its results have done
Why every line has a hole in it. 2019-20 and 2020-21 are shaded on each chart below because New Jersey cancelled statewide testing in the spring of 2020 and published nothing comparable the year after. The lines break there rather than running straight through years nobody was tested in.
This schoolJersey City medianHigher is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 26.3% | 47.2% |
| 2017-18 | 23.0% | 51.1% |
| 2018-19 | 23.2% | 55.7% |
| 2021-22 | 26.0% | 44.3% |
| 2022-23 | 37.6% | 46.4% |
| 2023-24 | 56.8% | 47% |
This schoolJersey City medianHigher is better
This measure is also missing 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2021-22.
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 10.1% | 32.7% |
| 2017-18 | * | 41.8% |
| 2018-19 | * | 42.6% |
| 2021-22 | <10% | 30.7% |
| 2022-23 | 13.9% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 17.9% | 32.4% |
This schoolJersey City medianLower is better
The numbers behind this line
| Year | This school | Jersey City median |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 17.5% | 12.3% |
| 2017-18 | 21.8% | 12.6% |
| 2018-19 | 22.3% | 11.8% |
| 2020-21 | 15.9% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 23.0% | 26.1% |
| 2022-23 | 19.6% | 22.4% |
| 2023-24 | 16.4% | 20.1% |
The score and the lines come from New Jersey's School Performance Reports, one PDF per school per year, read straight out of the files the state publishes. The score is the state's, not ours, and every weight in it is shown above. How it is put together, and what it leaves out.
From Jersey City's own attendance zone table, revised March 2025, read straight out of the file the district publishes and matched on street and house number. The district's page. Zones move and a school can be full, so telephone the school with the address before you count on it. How assignment works. Checked 16 October 2026.
Charter schools nearby
No address is zoned to a charter. They are public and free, you apply, and if more children apply than there are places the school draws a lottery, usually in the winter for the following September.
How school assignment works in Jersey City, including the selective schools that no address is zoned to.
Parking
This building has parking on site
Jersey City's records show parking here, without a count this building can be given on its own.
That probably rules out a residential street parking permit. The city issues one only to someone whose building has no parking of its own available to residents, whether it is free or costs extra, and whether or not there is a space going. If the parking here is open to residents, nobody living in this building qualifies.
Your landlord or seller is required to tell you this at least ten days before you sign. How the permit rule works.
The street outside is in residential permit zone 4. Without a permit, parking there is capped at the hours in the city's rule below. What a permit costs and how to apply.
Neither record says who may use a space, so confirm with the building before you rely on it either way. The zone is matched because the city's record puts the whole of this street in the zone. Checked 17 October 2026.
Commuting
Commuting
Door to platform
The walk to the station plus the time on the train. Each one uses whichever station gets you there soonest, which is not always the nearest.
This is the walk plus the ride, and nothing else. It does not include waiting on the platform, the walk at the other end, or a train running late. The frequency above is there so you can add the wait yourself.
Walk routed along real streets from this building's parcel. Ride times are the scheduled run times in PATH's published timetable, from the feed published on 22 May 2025, whose own calendar ran out on 1 June 2026. We can find no newer machine-readable PATH timetable. Check PATH for what is running today, and how we worked this out.
How long it takes to walk
Every stop in the table above, drawn. A number of minutes has a direction once you can see it.
- Harborside Plaza 8
- PATH
- Light rail
- Ferry
Routed along real streets from this building's parcel, not straight lines. The only ferry inside this area is Paulus Hook. Hoboken Terminal is shown because it is the nearest alternative. There is no Newport ferry and no Harborside ferry.
Citi Bike
The three nearest docks. These distances are straight lines, not walks, unlike every other distance on this page.
- Harborside Plaza 8
- Citi Bike dock
Dock positions and sizes from Citi Bike's published system data, the feed built for other people to read. Read 20 October 2026.
Nearby
Construction in the area
This building's lot, and every lot within 800 feet that Jersey City has approved. A count cannot tell you whether the work is across the street or behind you.
- This building's lot
- Under construction
One site within 800 feet, about two blocks, is being built on now, with 1,537 homes going into it.
Under construction
From Jersey City's own development record, read live from the city's map service. Distance is measured from this building to the nearest edge of the project's own site, not between center points, so a large site that begins next door reads as next door. Completed projects are left out: those are buildings, and this site already describes them. Checked 16 October 2026.
Flood
What the flood maps say
N/A We could not read a flood zone for this building.Look it up on FEMA's own map.
What the building says
Amenities Harborside Plaza 8 publishes
No public record lists amenities, so these are the building's or a reporter's own words, linked to where they wrote them and unchecked by us.
These are claims, not a record. All of it comes from reporting rather than from the building, so it may describe what was planned rather than what was built. A building saying it has a gym is worth knowing and is something it can be held to, but it is not the same as the city's own records above. What is missing here is not evidence of anything: a building that does not mention a bike room may still have one. Read on 17 October 2026. Moved, closed or charged for separately? Tell us.
Related info
The rest of the record on Harborside Plaza 8
The city's own file
Planning and zoning board applications for this address, as Jersey City publishes them. These are the primary documents: the drawings, the variances asked for, the conditions attached.
- Planning Board Application - P2024-0078 242 Hudson St and 3 Second St 19 April 2024
- Planning Board Application - P20-019 242 Hudson St and 3 Second St 2020 21 April 2022
Written about it
- $384 Million in Financing Secured for Jersey City's Harborside 8 Jersey Digs, 12 January 2026
- JLL arranges $384M for Harborside 8 luxury residential tower in Jersey City ROI-NJ, 17 December 2025
- Jersey City's Harborside 8 & 9 Development Sells for $75 Million Jersey Digs, 11 December 2025
- Panepinto to Build 68- and 57-Story Harborside Skyscrapers in Jersey City Jersey Digs, 29 September 2025
- After Years of Delays, Work Begins on Jersey City's Harborside 8 with 68 Stories Jersey Digs, 28 July 2025
- Updated Renderings Revealed for Harborside 8 and 9 in Jersey City, New Jersey New York YIMBY, 16 July 2024
- Jersey City Approves Mack-Cali's 68-Story Harborside 8 Development Jersey Digs, 5 March 2020
- Harborside (Jersey City) Wikipedia
Look this building up elsewhere
Searches, not results — each one may come back empty. They open on someone else's site, which is the point: nothing here is quoted or copied, and you can judge it yourself.
- Jersey Digs writes about downtown development more than everyone else combined
- Hudson County View covers the planning board and the council
- Jersey City Times local reporting
- The city's own open data planning and zoning board applications, filed by address
- NJ Parcels the state assessment and sale record, in a form built for reading
- Jersey Digs, by building name some buildings are written about by name rather than address
Links to other people's work, not copies: each article stays on its publisher's own site, the list was put together by hand rather than queried so it is thin on older buildings, and every link was loaded and seen to work on 16 October 2026. Tell us what we have missed.
Live here, or did you?
Tell us what the records cannot
Tell us what you think.
Check it yourself
Sources
- services2.arcgis.com , the parcel and its address
- hazards.fema.gov , flood maps
- services2.arcgis.com , redevelopment plan area
Jersey City parcel 11603/27, matched on this building's own address. That parcel is what the flood reading, the plan area and the walking times are taken from.
Last updated 16 October 2026.
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