Lincoln Park (Jersey City)

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Coordinates: 40°43′29″N 74°04′51″W / 40.724640°N 74.080939°W / 40.724640; -74.080939
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Lincoln Park
West Side Park (1905–1930)
Lincoln Park Lake
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TypeUrban park
LocationJersey City, New Jersey
Coordinates40°43′29″N 74°04′51″W / 40.724640°N 74.080939°W / 40.724640; -74.080939
Area273.4 acres (110.6 ha)
Created1905 (1905)
Operated byHudson County, New Jersey

Lincoln Park is an urban park in Jersey City, New Jersey with an area of 273.4 acres (110.6 ha). Part of the Hudson County Park System, it opened in 1905 and was originally known as West Side Park. The park was designed by Daniel W. Langton and Charles N. Lowrie,[1][2] both founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects.

The park consists of two distinct sections: Lincoln Park East, 150.4 acres (60.9 ha), and Lincoln Park West, 123 acres (50 ha).

Hudson County shoreline. The East Coast Greenway also traverses the park.[4]

History

Lincoln Park was the first park in the

wetlands restoration project on a former landfill site adjacent to the Hackensack River unveiled in July 2011. It is hoped that the nearly $10.6 million development will enhance bird and fish populations.[8] A section of the East Coast Greenway crosses through the park,[9] which is site of one of five kiosks in the state for the project[10]

A

Eastern League
from 1902 through 1905.

Facilities

Three of the baseball fields, with Pulaski Skyway and smokestacks of the Kearny Generating Station in background
Ceremonial opening of East Coast Greenway segment in the park

Athletics and recreation

Lincoln Park East contains many sports fields and recreational facilities. There are 21 outdoor

Charlie Mays running track, five basketball courts, two football fields, two soccer fields, and four handball/paddleball courts.[3] This section of the park also contains a 3 acres (1.2 ha) lake available for fishing.[11] The lake has also been used for model yacht racing.[12] In 2009, a suspected virus resulted in a large number of carp dying in the lake.[13]

Lincoln Park West features

soccer teams of Saint Peter's University. The field was opened and dedicated in 1990 by Mary Lou Jaroschak, and named after her late husband.[14]

In 2011, construction began on a nine-hole public golf course in Lincoln Park West, the first public course in Hudson County.

batting cages and a driving range
.

New York Road Runners hosts a weekly 2.7-mile Open Run. [18]

Structures and buildings

Lincoln Park East has four gazebos, several maintenance buildings, and the Park Administration Building.[3] The Administration Building houses offices as well as the Hank Gallo Community Room.

Casino in the Park

Just south of the Lincoln Park Lake is Casino in the Park, a catering facility owned by the county and leased to a private operator. The original structure was built as a clubhouse for the tennis courts, but was underutilized due to the distance between them.[1] It was used as a summer museum by the Jersey City Public Library before being leased to Ray Dillman, manager of the El Morocco nightclub in New York City, as a restaurant.

The restaurant is regularly used for meetings and events. Many well known people have attended private and public events at the venue. In 1963,

Rotary Club of Jersey City.[22]

The city leases the building to a private enterprise.[23]

The original building was demolished in April 2020 and a replacement called "The View at Lincoln Park" is set to be completed in September 2022.[24][25][26]

Former facilities

West Side Park
Skeeter Park
Map
Capacity8,500
SurfaceGrass
Construction
Built1902
Demolishedafter 1934
Tenants
Jersey City Skeeters

Skeeters Park was a baseball field with bleachers and a grandstand with a seating capacity of 8,500 people, built in 1902.[27] It was home to the Jersey City Skeeters, a minor league baseball team.

A nine-hole golf course was built on 140 acres (57 ha) of the western portion of the park in 1925.[6] The park also had a concrete swimming pool 40 by 130 feet (12 by 40 m) near the athletic fields.[6]

Art

Lincoln the Mystic at eastern entrance
Lincoln Park Fountain

The primary piece of

Morgan F. Larson.[31]

The park is also home to the world's largest concrete monument, the 365-ton Lincoln Park Fountain designed by Pierre J. Cheron at the center of the park's traffic circle.[32] The fountain is 53 feet (16 m) tall, and contains 27 frog-shaped spouts and 150 lights.[33][34] The fountain was rededicated on June 16, 2016, after a $7.2 million restoration.[35][36]

The park also contains several monuments and memorials:

Civil War memorial
Detail of the Farrier Memorial

In popular culture

Lincoln park is also featured in the HBO miniseries The Plot Against America where actor Johnathon Tuturo can be seen riding a horse by the fountain circle

References

  1. ^ a b "Lincoln Park". Jersey City: Past and Present. New Jersey City University. Archived from the original on February 4, 2010. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "Lincoln Park". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved October 6, 2011. Inscription: Hudson County's great public work of the 1890s was Hudson (now Kennedy) Boulevard, a 20-mile landscaped roadway running through the county. Construction caused the demolition or relocation of many buildings and was completed in 1895. The road marked the Bergen section as the most desirable in Jersey City. Elaborate homes faced the boulevard and side streets. Beginning in 1905 Hudson County's Park Commission began to turn Glendale Woods and the surrounding area, an unsightly swamp, into the 208-acre West Side Park. Under landscape architects Charles Lowrie and Daniel Langton, terraces, ponds, athletic fields, statues, fountains, and flower gardens were built. To create a mall and view of the Orange Mountains a block of buildings were moved from Belmont Avenue. Some were placed on new foundations on Communipaw Avenue. The 1930 statue of Lincoln was sponsored by the Lincoln Association of Jersey City (1865), the oldest group of its kind in the nation. The park contains a lake, a classic fountain (restored in 2016), pavilions, and memorials to Jersey City's Union Civil War veterans and firemen. Nearby are prime residential streets of Gifford and Bentley Avenues, the 1925 Temple Beth-El and the 1909 Saint Aloysius Church, a 900 seat French Renaissance edifice. Its 150 foot bell tower has been a landmark for generations.
  3. ^ a b c "Hudson County Park Master Plan" (PDF). T&M Associates. November 1998. pp. 2–18. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2011. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  4. ^ New Bike Path Connects Jersey By Daniel Reyes/The Jersey Journal, 25 June 2012
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  6. ^ a b c "Golfers to Have $1,000,000 Course". The New York Times. June 22, 1925.
  7. ^ "Land Deals Extend Jersey City Park; Hudson Commission Buys Nine Parcels on River Front and Communipaw Avenue". The New York Times. January 8, 1938. p. 28.
  8. ^ Whiten, Jon (July 19, 2011). "Restored Wetlands Area in Lincoln Park Now Open to the Public". Jersey City Independent. Retrieved July 21, 2011.
  9. ^ "Welcome to the East Coast Greenway in New Jersey". East Coast Greenway. Retrieved July 5, 2011.
  10. ^ Copeland, Denise (Betty the Bike) (December 9, 2010), "Weekend kiosk building party at Lincoln Park, Jersey City, for the East Coast Greenway", The Jersey Journal, retrieved September 28, 2011
  11. ^ "Places to Fish - Ponds, Lakes and Rservoirs". www.state.nj.us. New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  12. ^ "MODEL YACHTS COMPETE; Millpond Club of Jersey Wins Regatta in Jersey City". The New York Times. May 31, 1937. p. 32.
  13. ^ Takahash, Paul (July 31, 2009). "Viruses may be killing Lincoln Park carp". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved May 11, 2011.
  14. ^ "Joseph J. Jaroschak Field". Saint Peter's University. Retrieved March 25, 2024.
  15. ^ Wilshe, Brett (December 11, 2010). "Hudson County freeholders approve building county's first public golf course adjacent to Lincoln Park in Jersey City". The Jersey Journal.
  16. ^ "Fore! Hudson County golf course to open next month in Jersey City". NJ.com. May 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
  17. ^ "Tee time: Hudson County's first public golf course set to open Monday". NJ.com. June 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2017.
  18. ^ Staff, NYRR (August 23, 2023). "Lincoln Park=NYRR". Retrieved August 23, 2023.
  19. ^ "Sinatra Attends As Parents Note Golden Wedding". Hartford Courant. February 10, 1963. p. 8B.
  20. ^ Journal, John Gomez/For The Jersey (April 29, 2019). "Hold that wrecking ball! Historian issues plea to save N.J. landmark | Legends & Landmarks". nj. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  21. ^ "Mighty HCDO has fallen: No dinner, just breakfast". The Jersey Journal. October 3, 2009. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
  22. ^ "The Rotary Club of Jersey City, New Jersey USA". www.jc-rotary.org. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  23. ^ "Owners of two Downtown Jersey City restaurants want to run new Casino in the Park". April 23, 2019.
  24. ^ "Here's a look at the venue replacing Jersey City's iconic Casino in the Park". October 3, 2019.
  25. ^ Ulloa, Daniel (February 3, 2021). "Jersey City Planning Board approves new design to replace historic Casino in the Park". Hudson County View. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  26. ^ Staff, Jersey City Times (May 18, 2021). "County Breaks Ground on "The View at Lincoln Park"". Jersey City Times. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  27. ^ Weiss, Bill; Wright, Marshall. "Jersey City Skeeters". 100 Best Minor League Baseball Teams. MLB.com. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  28. ^ James, George (January 24, 1999). "For 134 Years, Jersey City Puts Politics Aside and Honors Lincoln". The New York Times. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  29. ^ Karnoutsos, Carmela; Patrick Shalhoub (2009). "Abraham Lincoln Association of Jersey City". Jersey City Past and Present. New Jersey City University. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
  30. ^ "New Lincoln Monument Is Unveiled Today". The Jersey Journal. June 14, 1930.
  31. ^ "Jersey City Unveils Monument of Lincoln". The New York Times. June 15, 1930.
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  33. ^ Collins, A.B. (May 1912). "An Artistic Concrete Fountain". The Cement Age. p. 257.
  34. ^ Hack, Charles (June 9, 2012), "Hudson County freeholders approve spending $3.9M on restoring Lincoln Park's 100-year-old fountain", The Jersey Journal, retrieved June 9, 2012
  35. ^ Nicholas Zeitlinger (June 18, 2016). "Jersey City's Lincoln Park Fountain is lit in rededication ceremony". NJ.com. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  36. ^ "Hudson County sues architect behind historic Lincoln Park Fountain renovation". June 21, 2021.
  37. ^ "War Memorial Legacy Upheld" (PDF). The New York Times. November 4, 1922. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  38. ^ "Farrier Memorial". The Historical Marker Database. Retrieved October 6, 2011.
  39. ^ Mestanza, Jean-Pierre (May 9, 2011). "100 in Lincoln Park welcome new memorial to Great Irish Famine". The Jersey Journal. Retrieved May 10, 2011.
  40. ^ Ugoku. "The Sopranos location guide - Golf course (Pilot)". www.sopranos-locations.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.

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