Harbour View, Jamaica
Harbour View is a community in Kingston, Jamaica.
Harbour View is a community in Kingston, Jamaica. It is administered by the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation and is served by the Kingston 17 Post Office. Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. Harbour View is located in East Kingston and can be described as one of the best communities to live and raise families.
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Worth seeing in and around Harbour View, Jamaica
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Harbour View Stadium
Harbour View Stadium is a football stadium in Harbour View, near Kingston, Jamaica. It was built by Carvel Stewart and Harbour View Football Club in the 1990s, as a part of the club's effort to transform into a truly professional organization.
700 m · football stadium in Jamaica · Wikipedia
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Getting to Harbour View, Jamaica
- Airports
- Norman Manley (KIN), 8 km · Sangster (MBJ), 141 km · Antonio Maceo (SCU), 243 km
- Stations
- Palisadoes, 2.8 km
- Montego Bay → Harbour View, Jamaica139 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · $15–21
- Santiago → Harbour View, Jamaica5753 km · quickest by air, 14h 9m · CLP$469,810–728,250
- Holguin → Harbour View, Jamaica329 km · quickest by air, 7h 6m · $210–310
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No local-transport research exists yet for Harbour View, Jamaica
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Harbour View, Jamaica. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere are also minibuses and route taxis which are very affordable.
- Get aroundCharter Taxis (normal taxis) - negotiate a price before getting in the car.
- Go nextOcho Rios ("Ochi") - only 4 hours away by minibus/route taxi for ~J$500.
- Go nextPort Antonio - take a direct minibus/route taxi from HWT for J$200–300.
From Wikivoyage: Kingston (Jamaica), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Harbour View, Jamaica
Harbour View, Jamaica is 10 km from New Kingston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.