Communipaw is an
unincorporated community and neighborhood located within
Jersey City in
Hudson County,
New Jersey, United States. It is located west of
Liberty State Park and east of
Bergen Hill, and the site of one of the earliest European settlements in North America. It gives its name to the historic avenue which runs from its eastern end near
LSP Station through the neighborhoods of
Bergen-Lafayette and the
West Side that then becomes the
Lincoln Highway. Communipaw Junction, or simply, The Junction, is an
intersection where Communipaw,
Summit Avenue, Garfield Avenue, and Grand Street meet, and where the
toll house for the
Bergen Point Plank Road was situated. Communipaw Cove at
Upper New York Bay, is part of the state
nature preserve in the park and one of the few remaining tidal salt marshes in the
Hudson River estuary.