Bergen Square Day 2025 is Saturday, September 13th

FOOD

DANCE

KIDS’ ACTIVITIES

HISTORY TOURS

CRAFTS

MUSIC

THEATRE

COMMUNITY ORGS

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This annual family-friendly event features music, theater, dance, kids’ activities, food, arts and crafts, merchandise, and community exchange.

Located at the intersection of Bergen Avenue and Academy Street, Bergen Square is the historical heart of Jersey City. Today it is a vibrant, bustling community where residents, commuters, shoppers, students, and churchgoers come together to form an extraordinary, unique urban enclave.

Ancient home to the Lenni Lenape and established by the Dutch as the first permanent European settlement in New Jersey in 1660, Bergen Square has welcomed immigrants from around the world for centuries and now flourishes as the historical and cultural wellspring of Jersey City.

2024 HIGHLIGHTS

THANK YOU to our 2024 SPONSORS

GOLD

SILVER

INDIVIDUAL

Bill Armbruster

Friends of Liberty State Park

BRONZE

THANKS TO ALL OF THOSE WHO PERFORMED AND OFFERED PROGRAMS in 2024

BERGEN SQUARE STAGE

ALL DAY LONG

FEATURING THE BEATS OF DEEJAY KHADI

12:30 – 1:30

Rashad Wright and the AfterSchoolActivities

1:00 PM

Welcome

TOM ZUPPA, President, Journal Square Community Association
MAYOR STEVE FULOP

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Spektrums Afrikans Dancers

Kids Bike Ride

3:00 – 4:00 PM

Joel Chasson Jazz Trio

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Brooklyners

5:00 – 6:00 PM

Spirit of Life Ensemble

MUSEUM OF JERSEY CITY HISTORY AT THE APPLE TREE HOUSE

THROUGHOUT THE DAY

HISTORY TOURS

12-6 PM

MJCH EXHIBITS

Hague’s Jersey City, Lafayette, and MORE!

Visit our tent on Bergen Avenue to see

JERSEY CITY ACROSS THE CENTURIES

a special exhibit presented by the Museum of Jersey City History and The New Jersey Room of the Jersey City Public Library

6:30 PM

Speranza Theatre Company presents MARY & ELEANOR

The Democratic National Convention in Chicago will be historic, one that will change the course of American history. But this isn't 2024. It's 1932, and while the battle for who will be the Democratic nominee rages on, behind the scenes, the first Democratic woman ever elected to Congress, Jersey City's own Mary Norton, and Eleanor Roosevelt argue about the future of our country, the Democratic party, and women's role in it.