Neighborhood Guides Buyers Resource Renter Resource Mortgage Calculator Glossary of Terms Click here to sign-up Neighborhood Guides > Union City > Trivia Trivia The area between what is now Palisade and Bergenline Avenues, from 22nd to 32nd Street was a Civil War installation called Camp Yates. In the 1960s and early 1970s when the Union City Cuban population was at its height, there were more Cubans per square mile in Union City than in Havana, Cuba. [citation needed] The area on which Roosevelt Stadium stood was part of a farm called Kerrigan Farm. The street that now runs from 15th Street to 25th and ends at the stadium site is called Kerrigan Avenue. Trolleys began to operate in West Hoboken and Union Hill in 1890, after the area was electrified. The cost to build Union Hill High School was $300,000. The city is served by a local newspaper, Union City Reporter, which is actually based in Hoboken. A website which lists several Hudson County towns in a variety of top 100 lists ranks Union City as #48 on a list of cities with the highest number of renters.