Lafayette returns to Jersey City’s Bergen neighborhood

Lafayette returns to Jersey City’s Bergen neighborhood with a ceremony at the Jersey City Public Library – Five Corners Branch, 678 Newark Ave. from 11 am to noon, followed by a reception at the nearby Museum of Jersey City History at the Van Wagenen (Apple Tree) House at 298 Academy St, until 1pm. The presentation is a collaboration of the American Friends of Lafayette with the Jersey City Museum of History and will involve the unveiling of a Lafayette plaque and a reenactment of the 1824 presentation of an apple tree cane to General Lafayette. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop will also proclaim September 23 to be Lafayette Day in Jersey City.