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Progress On Park
Tap Into Jersey City: Behind the Scenes: Progress on Skyway Park Continues, Jersey City Officials Says
While some local environmentalists have raised concerns about the feasibility of the city meeting its goal of opening the new Skyway Park by Summer 2022, a spokesperson for Jersey City said efforts are continuing. Read more…
Jersey Journal/Star Ledger: First look at COVID-19 memorial grove planned for future Skyway Park
A pergola-like structure with the names of Jersey City’s COVID-19 victims will be one of the features of the park being planned along the Hackensack River, renderings show. Read more…
Jersey Journal/Star Ledger: Skyway Park plans advance; Kavanaugh will undo decades of work
Nice article last week about the cleanup of the notorious PJP Landfill–and plans for the Hackensack River waterfront. The EPA award reflects a rare coming together of stakeholders: The federal government, NJ DEP, Jersey City, private enterprise and community groups. Add Hudson County to the list and you have the coalition that will be needed to complete the task of making the waterfront more accessible. Read more…
JC Decides To Build Park/December 2020
NY Times: Park With Covid Memorial Is Rising on Site of Former Toxic Dump
Hundreds of trees will be planted in a grove at the new Skyway Park — one for every resident of Jersey City who has died of the virus. Read more…
Jersey Journal/Star Ledger: Skyway Park to rise on banks of Hackensack River, with special memorial to Jersey City’s COVID-19 victims
Skyway Park, a long-awaited public space planned for the city’s West Side, will open next year with a memorial for the 503 city residents who died of the coronavirus without formal funerals. Read more…
Fox5 NY: Planned park in Jersey City would honor victims of COVID-19
A bright future for a site that has been a dumping ground for decades. The Skyway Park in Jersey City is a superfund site, about to become a memorial site. Read more…
News12: Park on Jersey City Superfund site will have virus victims' memorial
NBC News NY: Jersey City Announces Plan for COVID-19 Memorial Park at Former Superfund Site
Hudson County VIew: Jersey City will invest $10M into Skyway Park, which will memorialize COVID-19 victims
Hudson Reporter: From toxic site to Jersey City park
The PJP Landfill
Jersey Journal/Star Ledger: Almost three decades later, a once-simmering Jersey City landfill site is poised to become city's largest park
On March 24, 1985, about 20 Jersey City firefighters began pouring roughly 300,000 gallons of water on the PJP Landfill, a 70-acre site in the shadow of the Pulaski Skyway where underground fires had raged for three decades. Read more…
Jersey Journal/Star Ledger: Cleanup of formerly smoldering landfill wins EPA award
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week announced that the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Jersey City and Prologis Inc. won an “excellence in site reuse” award for a formerly contaminated stretch of land along the Hackensack River waterfront in the shadow of the Pulaski Skyway. Read more…