UNPLUGGED: Jersey City

Before

0.3 mi · 6 min walk - Downtown Jersey City

The Jersey City branch of a Greenpoint bookshop, now on a side street off Hamilton Park rather than its old Newark Avenue address. It is a general-interest shop with a staff-recommendation habit and a children's section at the back, and it runs readings and a book club. Open the same hours seven days a week, which very little else here manages.

After

Long walk · 0.7 mi · 13 min walk; 2 min ride - Downtown Jersey City

Opened in 2016 by people who already lived here, with a pub menu that happens to be entirely vegetarian and a yard out the back. Downstairs there is a smaller bar called PS that puts on comedy and art shows and music on its own nights. The front is a plain bar with a plain beer and cocktail list.