For the 2013-2014 school year students from Gilmore and Hudson Schools were relocated to Colin Powell, so that the former schools, both of which are over 100 years old, could undergo renovations. Colin Powell Elementary School opened in September 2012 and was dedicated on February 7, 2013. It is the seventh educational facility created over the course of a decade, and the 14th school in the city. Hudson County Community College's $28.1 million North Hudson Higher Education Center opened in September 2011. The seven-story, 92,250-square-foot (8,570 m2) Center is located on Kennedy Boulevard, breaking news saarland (Going to www.carpet.gr) adjacent to the Bergenline Avenue Light Rail station. The Bergenline Avenue station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail is located at 49th Street near the city line with West New York and North Bergen. Celia Cruz Park On June 4, 2004, nearly a year after the death of Cuban-American salsa singer Celia Cruz (who lived in nearby Fort Lee), Union City heralded its annual Cuban Day Parade by dedicating a park to Cruz, which is also known as Celia Cruz Plaza, at 31st Street and Bergenline Avenue, with Cruz's widower, Pedro Knight, present. It is commanded by Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) who reports to the Inspector-General of the National Police Service, fields about 65,000 officers.

June 2011. It houses the Union City Museum of Art, the Union City Police Museum, the Union City Art Gallery & Concert Hall, the Union City Museum of History, and a senior citizen center. The NHHEC also houses offices for the Hudson County Career Development Center and the County Clerk. Hudson County is governed by the directly elected Hudson County Executive and by a Board of County Commissioners, which serves as the county's legislative body. Historically, Union City schools have ranked among the highest in Hudson County in reported incidents of violence compared to the size of the student population more than once, most recently in a November 2009 report by the New Jersey Department of Education, which annually records incidents of violence, vandalism, weapons and substance abuse or possession. Kirp, who spent a year in Union City examining its schools, notes that while in the late 1970s, Union City schools faced the threat of state takeover, they now boast achievement scores that approximate the statewide average. University of California, Berkeley Professor David L. Kirp, in his 2011 book, Kids First, and his 2013 book, Improbable Scholars, praised Union City's education system for bringing poor, mostly immigrant kids (three quarters of whom live in homes where only Spanish is spoken and a quarter of which are thought to be undocumented and fearful of deportation) into the educational mainstream.

Computers and laptops are quickly becoming nearly ubiquitous accessories to our lives. In fact, Gandalf and the Balrog are similar in much the same way that Superman and Doomsday are. The 15th Street library retains its original stained glass, but was closed in 2004 upon the completion of a new library on the corner of Summit Avenue and 18th Street, housed in the same building as José Martí Middle School. When Union City High School opened in September 2009, the middle school converted to José Martí Freshman Academy to house most of town's ninth graders. The $178 million school, whose signature feature is an athletic field on its second floor roof, replaced the former Emerson High School and Union Hill High School, which converted to middle schools. In 2021, its 14 public schools served 11,893 students. It houses students that otherwise would have attended Emerson and Union Hill Middle Schools, as well as some ninth graders that would have otherwise attended Union City High School, and enable the city to move all sixth graders into its elementary schools. It was renamed Emerson High School for the writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, when the two towns merged. Emerson Middle School, was opened in April 1915 as West Hoboken High School, and was home to the Bulldogs.

On April 22, 2019, Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili posted on Twitter. Protecting the president is no small affair and takes a great deal of manpower. Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, and though he was shot by an assassin in 1981, he did survive. Within the city, Bergenline Avenue and the marginal highway of Route 495 are major public transportation corridors. New Jersey Route 495 is the most significant highway passing through, connecting directly to the Lincoln Tunnel into New York City. 41.67 miles (67.06 km) of roadways, of which 37.46 miles (60.29 km) were maintained by the municipality, 3.42 miles (5.50 km) by Hudson County and 0.64 miles (1.03 km) by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and 0.15 miles (0.24 km) by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority. Newark Liberty International Airport is located 12.5 miles (20.1 km) south in Newark/Elizabeth. In the wake of declining enrollment and lingering financial issues, Mother Seton Interparochial School (which had been formed in 2006 from the merger of St. Michael's and St. Anthony of Padua) and St. Augustine's School were closed by the Newark Archdiocese after the 2019-20, school year and merged into Academy of St. Joseph of the Palisades in West New York, New Jersey.