For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Indie singer-songwriter (and New Jersey native) Jenny Owen Youngs plays Brennan Coffee House ($15–$20, 7:30 pm). The concert is followed by an open mic session, [...]
In a new request for proposal (RFP) issued by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the agency is asking private businesses to propose a plan for managing and operating concessions, catering and event services at Jersey City’s 1,212-acre Liberty State Park (approximately 600 acres of land and 600 acres of water), one of the most [...]
As part of the 2nd annual EarthShare New Jersey week, which runs from September 10 to 18, Liberty State Park will play host to a big corporate cleanup day next week. The EarthShare week marks the beginning of the fall workplace giving season, with employers from across New Jersey hosting campaigns which allow employees to [...]
The NJ Transit shuttle bus that runs through Liberty State Park, which was killed as part of NJ Transit’s service reductions and fare hikes in 2010, was back this Memorial Day weekend, and it will stay in service on the weekends for the rest of the summer. The bus runs in a loop from the [...]
After a long winter, the Friends of Liberty State Park is looking for volunteers to help clean up the salt marsh natural area in the park this Saturday. The 16th annual cleanup is scheduled for 9 am to noon on Saturday, and includes drinks and snacks. The salt marsh area is located near the south [...]
When the park was founded in 1976, there were few expectations that this 250 acres of contaminated land would ever recover from its past. Tainted with industrial waste, the swath seemed relegated to little more than an unsightly reminder of industrial recklessness. But now the Interior Natural Area is set to re-open. And this Saturday, the park will give its second-ever public tour of the area and its dramatic environmental recovery.
With its third annual City of Water Day Festival, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance is expanding, bringing the festivities to Liberty State Park in Jersey City for the first time. The free event, which has been held on Governors Island for the past 2 years, will also expand this year to include happenings at Brooklyn Bridge [...]
Grace Church Van Vorst barely seemed open from the outside Friday night, even as the first-ever Green Teen Music and Arts Festival was happening within. But as the red double doors swung open, the clamor of people gradually got louder until it swept over us like a rush of hot air from an oven.
- An appeals court has ruled against The Friends of Liberty State Park’s challenge to prevent the state’s planned “Empty Sky” 9/11 memorial from being built on the park’s waterfront. The group, which filed a petition arguing the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) didn’t allow enough public comment on the memorial, was told that [...]
- The big news of yesterday was that planning aide Guy Catrillo and Health and Human Services deputy director Maher Khalil pleaded guilty to the federal corruption charges against them. In his plea, Khalil said he was passing the alleged $30,000 in bribes he took from a purported developer along to council president Mariano Vega* [...]
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