Port Liberté

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Condos, canal and HRWW
Port Liberte from Liberty State Park .

Port Liberté is a part of Jersey City located at Caven Point , once one of the last natural sandy beaches on Upper New York Bay . The settlement is a European style village along the west side of Upper New York Bay. The settlement has canals, gardens, playgrounds and a restaurant. The many luxury condominiums and townhouses offer views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty . In addition, many of the residences have canals in the back which make the village perfect for boating. Many of the canals are also lined with walkways, gardens and docks. The Liberty National Golf Club and the Caven Point section of Liberty State Park border the settlement to the north and east and are accessible via the Hudson River Waterfront Walkkway .

Transport links

The NY Waterway operated ferries go to Battery Maritime Buildin in Manhattan .

Port Liberte's NY Waterway terminal at night.

The 981 Port Liberte-Grove Street bus service to the area ceased on May 29, 2010. The community of owners then expanded its own shuttle service.

architecture

The architectural design for the ensemble comes from François Spoerry , a French architect who invented the concept of "soft architecture", a harbinger of the new urbanism New Urbanism . For Port Liberté, he adapted a concept that he had developed in Port Grimaud , a port and settlement project near Saint-Tropez , France .

The European-style mixed complex started in the 1980s and consists of 2,280 residential units, 245 berths in a marina, 590 berths in the canals, a 350-room hotel, an office building, leisure facilities, retail / commercial areas, a fitness studio and a yacht club. However, the complexity of the design, costly canal construction, and the collapse of Wall Street in the late 1980s led the project to bankruptcy. Only 37 city apartments and 363 of the planned residential units have been completed. Joseph Barry of the Applied Company, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, took it over, abandoned the canal plan, and completed Stages 1 and 2 of the original plan in the early 2000s.

literature

Spoerry, Francois: A Gentle Architecture, from Port-Grimaud to Port-Liberte , Pheon Books in association with John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1991, ISBN 0-471-93086-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/tcs/tcsw92001/tcsw92001j.pdf
  2. ↑ Ferry timetable
  3. ^ Century 21 Viewpoint Realty . In: portliberte.com . Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ http://portliberte.biz/Shuttle_Schedule.pdf
  5. ↑ LinX Development: "PORT LIBERTE" retrieved July 22, 2014

Coordinates: 40 ° 41 ′  N , 74 ° 4 ′  W