St. Michael's, built by my second great-grandfather and his carpenter sons, became a Korean Church -- we were there in the 1980s and were told the entire monastary property was to become condos -- St. Joseph's survived and has a nice web site, last I knew. Maureen --- On Mon, 3/23/09, MJ Mann <mjmgenealogy@gmail.com> wrote: From: MJ Mann <mjmgenealogy@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] N. Bergen street numbers To: njhudson@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 5:42 PM Tom, The park with the stone animals is on the northwest corner of the Blvd and Manhattan Ave in Jersey City. Still there. I remember at one point some idiot got an idea & painted the animals (maybe to cover graffetti??) Ugly!! They looked better in their natural gray color. That park is well north of the Square. I just checked an Archdiocese of Newark site http://www.rcan.org/history/parishchronolist.htm It seems that St Michael's & St Joseph's in Union City merged in 1983, don't know which one 'survived'. >From another page of the Archdiocese site, I found: SS. JOSEPH & MICHAEL 1314 Central Avenue 07087 Phone: (201) 865-2325 Masses: Saturday 4:00 p.m.(Bilingual, Bella Vista Senior Citizens), 5:30 p.m, 7:00 p.m.(Spanish); Sunday 8:30, 10:00, 10:5 a.m. (Bilingual, School Gym, September to May), 11:30 (Spanish) Sorry, can't help with your other questions, Maureen On 3/23/09, Tom O'Neill <toneill3@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > snip > I used to visit my grand-parents there in the 1940s as a child. I remember > it being a 4-6 story building on the west side of the Blvd. We used to go to > Schutzen Park and the nearby Sears store. We took the bus to Journal Sq. and > to a park with stone buffaloes in it. Also walked over to Summit Avenue and > rode the trolleys. All good memories! > > My parents were married in St. Josephs RC Church in Union City on Nov. 30, > 1935. It that church still there? My mom also went to school at St. Josephs. > > TIA for any help as I cannot get up to NJ any longer. It is so hard doing > research from afar. > > Tom O'Neill > Belmont, NC > toneill3@carolina.rr.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've been inside the church too. The monastery Dome is still there along with the nursing home but do not know if that is functioning. The property that is along Summit Avenue is now a sport field -- but perhaps that will change now that the new HighSchool and field has been built. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen" <maureen1024@yahoo.com> To: <njhudson@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] N. Bergen street numbers St. Michael's, built by my second great-grandfather and his carpenter sons, became a Korean Church -- we were there in the 1980s and were told the entire monastary property was to become condos -- St. Joseph's survived and has a nice web site, last I knew. Maureen --- On Mon, 3/23/09, MJ Mann <mjmgenealogy@gmail.com> wrote: From: MJ Mann <mjmgenealogy@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [NJHUDSON] N. Bergen street numbers To: njhudson@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 5:42 PM Tom, The park with the stone animals is on the northwest corner of the Blvd and Manhattan Ave in Jersey City. Still there. I remember at one point some idiot got an idea & painted the animals (maybe to cover graffetti??) Ugly!! They looked better in their natural gray color. That park is well north of the Square. I just checked an Archdiocese of Newark site http://www.rcan.org/history/parishchronolist.htm It seems that St Michael's & St Joseph's in Union City merged in 1983, don't know which one 'survived'. >From another page of the Archdiocese site, I found: SS. JOSEPH & MICHAEL 1314 Central Avenue 07087 Phone: (201) 865-2325 Masses: Saturday 4:00 p.m.(Bilingual, Bella Vista Senior Citizens), 5:30 p.m, 7:00 p.m.(Spanish); Sunday 8:30, 10:00, 10:5 a.m. (Bilingual, School Gym, September to May), 11:30 (Spanish) Sorry, can't help with your other questions, Maureen On 3/23/09, Tom O'Neill <toneill3@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > snip > I used to visit my grand-parents there in the 1940s as a child. I remember > it being a 4-6 story building on the west side of the Blvd. We used to go to > Schutzen Park and the nearby Sears store. We took the bus to Journal Sq. and > to a park with stone buffaloes in it. Also walked over to Summit Avenue and > rode the trolleys. All good memories! > > My parents were married in St. Josephs RC Church in Union City on Nov. 30, > 1935. It that church still there? My mom also went to school at St. Josephs. > > TIA for any help as I cannot get up to NJ any longer. It is so hard doing > research from afar. > > Tom O'Neill > Belmont, NC > toneill3@carolina.rr.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUDSON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message