Talk:Liberty State Park

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Liberty State Park is bordered to the south and east by Upper New York Bay, and not by the Hudson River. Documentation is in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_New_York_Bay

NJ Sports and Exposition management & revenue producing activities
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Caven Point redirect
Greetings. Currently Caven Point redirects here - I noticed this in the National Docks Secondary page. Caven Point is not in LSP - it should redirect to Port Liberté, Jersey City - the entry for which does mention that it is located on Caven Point. I don't know how to make that change and can't quite figure out the instructions. I'm placing this note here and on the National DOcks page. Thanks! Jwbkmn (talk) 21:27, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

https://www.nj.com/opinion/2021/07/caven-point-much-more-than-21-acres-opinion.html

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New section 2018
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2018/01/nj_announces_massive_plan_to_restore_240_acres_of.html#incart_river_home

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Geography
Most of the park's area is on landfill created by the Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, defunct companies whose lines once terminated there. In the northeast corner of the park is the CRRNJ Terminal, a historic transportation building. Statue Cruises offers ferries to Statue of Liberty National Monument, Ellis Island and Liberty Island that depart nearby. A 50 foot section of track from the Lehigh Valley Railroad can be found in the park.

The southern Caven Point section of the park is separated from the main part of the park by the Liberty National Golf Club and is accessible along the water's edge using the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway. The long thin pier at the foot of Chapel Avenue that was once part of the park has been demolished. The Peninsula Park lies between the Big Basin of the Morris Canal and the Tidewater Basin in Paulus Hook. The Liberty Landing Marina is located on the Big Basin.

Liberty Industrial Park, a collection of warehouse distribution & light manufacturing facilities, lies at the southern end of the park.

History
...that formerly supported vast oyster banks as part of the territory of the Hackensack Indians, who called the area Communipaw and used it as a summer encampment. In the seventeenth century it became part of the colonial province of New Netherland, the patroonship Pavonia. The area was known as Jan the Lacher's Hook, so called for the man who was the bowery's second superintendent, Jan Everts Bout. For many years, the village, often referred to by Washington Irving, existed where the Liberty Science Center now stands. For hundreds of years it was a ferry port for local communities of Bergen, Bergen Township, and Hudson County, as well suburban and long-distance travelers to Manhattan.

Construction of the North River Tunnels, containerization, and the Interstate Highway System, made the area less viable. The decline of industry, deterioration of rail and maritime infrastructure, and toxic waste, eventually made the area obsolete. Abandoned buildings and brownfields dominated the landscape after the mid-twentieth century, though there was still some manufacturing and recreational use.

Freedom Way and Liberty Walkway
A road called Freedom Way goes through the center and serves as a barrier between the area closed to the public, to its west, and the area that is open to the public, to its east. It has many bike paths, walkways, and fields.

The name "Liberty Walk" was already associated with Philadelphia, in publications such as a booklet The Liberty Walk Through Historic Old Philadelphia published by the American Wax Museum, Philadelphia (before 1969), which listed a walk round 23 sites of historic interest.

Transportation
Hornblower Cruises operates ferries to Ellis Island and Liberty Island, and a water taxi to Paulus Hook and the Battery Park City Ferry Terminal.

Festivals and performances

 * On July 4, 1985, Daryl Hall and John Oates played an outdoor benefit concert for the restoration of the Statue of Liberty in front of an estimated 70,000 people at Liberty State Park. The concert was later re-played on HBO.
 * Liberty Weekend was a concert event aired on ABC on Independence Day, 1984. The concert lineup included John Denver, Whitney Houston, and Johnny Cash.
 * In 2006, the park began to host the Liberty Jazz Festival. This two-day event is normally held the first weekend after Labor Day each year and has included performers such as George Benson, Waymon Tisdale and other jazz artists.
 * From August 8–10, 2008, the park was the site of the All Points West Music & Arts Festival; the park hosted the festival again from July 31 to August 2, 2009, with such acts as Jay-Z, Coldplay, Tool, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
 * On June 23, 2012, the Girl Scouts of New Jersey celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of the USA at the park with a festival including performances from Rachel Crow, Joe Jonas, and Sara Bareilles.

Film and TV

 * The 2012 documentary Shadows of Liberty used perspective shots of the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan that were filmed in the Flag Plaza section of the park.