Tag: Liberty State Park

  • Protect Liberty State Park’s Caven Point as urban natural area

    Protect Liberty State Park’s Caven Point as urban natural area

    By Jay Watson In the most urban area of the nation’s most densely populated state, there is a small peninsula along the Hudson River where it widens into Upper New York Bay. It is an amazing haven for nature and wildlife. Migrating shorebirds, including ospreys and American oystercatchers, stop at Caven Point in Jersey City…

  • Remediation of contaminated land will fulfill a dream for Liberty State Park

    Remediation of contaminated land will fulfill a dream for Liberty State Park

    By Michele S. Byers Liberty State Park in Jersey City – the state’s most popular park, with more than five million annual visitors – has been called New Jersey’s Central Park. But it has something Central Park doesn’t have: spectacular views of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor and…