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JerseyCityNJ t1_janit2u wrote

Fun Fact: that neighborhood used to be part of Jersey City's 2nd District, also known as the "Horseshoe".

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WikiSummarizerBot t1_janiulv wrote

Horseshoe, Jersey City

>The Horseshoe section of Jersey City, New Jersey, was the second ward, and was the home of the immigrants, tenements, and taverns. The Republican-controlled Legislature gerrymandered the district in 1871 to concentrate and isolate Democratic, and mostly Catholic, votes, thus preserving Republican dominance in the rest of the state. The curved shape of the district was said to resemble a horseshoe. As competing railroads built cuts through Bergen Hill, they also built viaducts from the foot of the cliff which passed through residential districts to the waterfront.

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