Starling at 66 Monitor St. in Jersey City — Courtesy: Alpine Residential/Fields Grade
By Joshua Burd
The developers of several apartment buildings in Jersey City’s growing Bergen-Lafayette neighborhood are welcoming four new dining options to the portfolio.
According to the firms, Alpine Residential and Fields Grade, the additions include a breakfast café known as Eggs Up that is coming to their 24-story, 169-unit tower known as Atlas at 270 Johnston St. The business is slated to open in August, as is MochiDough / BoberTea, a premium Japanese donut and bubble tea shop, in the 39-unit Starling building at 66 Monitor St.
Meantime, the New Orleans-style sandwich shop Cheeky’s is set to debut this fall at The Hazel at 89 Monitor St., according to a news release. The establishments follow the arrival this past spring of The Roxy, a new venture between some of the team behind Corto in Jersey City Heights, at Starling.
“We are excited to welcome these new eateries to The Bergen Lafayette Collection,” said William Rosato, managing partner of Alpine Residential. “They are important additions to a neighborhood that’s experienced significant growth over the past few years and become a hotbed of residential activity and new community services.”
The Bergen Lafayette Collection comprises nearly 1,000 apartments across in five mixed-use properties in the historic neighborhood, the news release said. They also include Solaris Lofts, a 72-unit building at 65 Maple St., and Scholar’s Village, a planned 500-unit project within Liberty Science Center’s Scholars Village and SciTech Scity campus.
South Oxford Management, Alpine’s affiliated management company, is directing the leasing and management across the portfolio. The developers noted that Bergen-Lafayette, which sits just west of downtown Jersey City, has benefited from major investment and city-backed infrastructure improvements, including the extension of Jersey Avenue for pedestrians, bicyclists and vehicular traffic that have created better connections to downtown, while existing light rail service links the neighborhood to PATH trains and ferry service to Manhattan.
