Downtown Jersey City
Metropolis Towers
270-280 Gregory Park Plaza
Also known as Gregory Park.
Where it is
Map
270-280 Gregory Park Plaza, Jersey City, NJ 07302
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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 Jersey City parcel centroid, matched by address.
9 of 13 kinds of record. On this page: address and lot, homes, year built, stories, flood maps, walk and commute, tax and assessment, amenities and press and documents. Not here: schools, parking, sale prices and what residents say.
At a glance
Positives and negatives
Positives
- A 5 minute walk to Grove Street PATHcloser to a train than four in five buildings here, so you can leave later and still make it
- 13 minutes to Manhattan, door to platformquicker than four in five buildings here, with the walk to the station already counted in
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
- No parking in any city record for this buildingthat is not proof there is none, so ask. It cuts both ways: a building with no parking of its own is what qualifies a resident to apply for a street parking permit
- 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
This is a co-op
What it costs to rent around here
$4,140
a month for a 2 bedrooms, rent plus utilities, in ZIP 07302 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 Metropolis Towers 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 07302. Small Area Fair Market Rents, read 20 October 2026.
The Census Bureau puts the middle rent in Census Tract 75 at $2,723 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 whole of Metropolis Towers is assessed as one parcel and the city records it as a co-op, so residents hold shares in the company that owns the building rather than a deed to a home. The figures below are for the building as a whole.
The record assesses the whole of it at $46,898,300, which at the city's general tax rate of 2.335 per $100 is $1,095,075 a year in property tax for the building.
On an abatement, the record is silent rather than negative. This building shows a full assessment, with no sign of an exemption, and it is not on the city's list of approved abatements. But that list stops in 2018 and Jersey City has published nothing machine readable since, so for anything finished in the last several years the absence proves nothing. Treat it as not found, not as not there.
Assessed values and the abatement shape from Jersey City's assessment record, checked against the state's MOD-IV file for Hudson County, which is also where the sale prices come from. The tax rate from the state's general tax rates, 2025. Owner names are in both records and we never request them. Read 20 October 2026.
Schools
Schools nearby
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.
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.
- Metropolis Towers
- 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.
- Metropolis Towers
- 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
One site near here has started building since the beginning of 2025. Jersey City's record, read 16 October 2026.
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
- Approved, not started
One site within 800 feet, about two blocks, is being built on now, with 613 homes going into it.
Under construction
Construction approved, not started
Approval is a permission, not a promise. Some of these will be built, some will be redrawn and some will never be built at all. The city keeps the approval on its record either way, and it updates the status when it updates it, so an old approval tells you less about what is happening on the ground than a recent one. One of these was approved more than ten years ago and nothing has been built.
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
At this building, on the map in force (2006)
Zone AE
High risk. FEMA expects this ground to flood in a big storm, about a 1-in-100 chance in any year. A lender will normally require flood insurance for a home here. Water is expected to reach about 9 feet above sea level.
At this building, on the 2015 draft map
Zone AE
High risk. FEMA expects this ground to flood in a big storm, about a 1-in-100 chance in any year. A lender will normally require flood insurance for a home here. Water is expected to reach about 11 feet above sea level.
- Metropolis Towers. The red dot is the building itself.
- High risk. Zone A or AE, a 1 in 100 chance of flooding in any year. A lender normally requires flood insurance here.
- Lower risk. Shaded Zone X, a 1 in 500 chance. No insurance requirement.
- Not in a mapped zone. Left unshaded, because that is what Zone X means.
This is the ground, not the building: a tenth-floor apartment inside a high risk zone is not at risk of a wet carpet, though the lobby, the lift machinery and the garage might be. Shapes from FEMA's National Flood Hazard Layer, the map in force and the 2015 draft, read on 20 October 2026.
There are two maps, and they disagree. The map in force today was drawn in 2006. FEMA drafted a newer one in 2015 which has not been adopted and carries no legal force, but it is the more recent read of the risk. Across downtown the two differ a lot, so we show both.
FEMA also issues letters that formally remove an individual building from a flood zone, and we have not checked whether this one has had one.
Read at the building's own location, with the rest of its lot checked separately. Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, effective map dated 2006-08-16, draft map dated 2015-01-30. Checked 2026-10-15.
What the building says
Amenities Metropolis Towers 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.
This is a claim, 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 Metropolis Towers
Written about it
- Whole Foods Update: New Details on the Proposed Metropolis Towers Project Jersey Digs, 12 July 2016
- Metropolis Towers Complex CTBUH
- Metropolis Towers - Building 1 CTBUH
- Metropolis Towers - Building 2 CTBUH
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 , historic district
- openstreetmap.org , OpenStreetMap building levels
Jersey City parcel 13101/2, 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 15 October 2026.
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