Hidden New Jersey

As a follow-up to our story on Jersey City's Lincoln Park, historian and Hidden New Jersey reader Jim Madden took to our Facebook page...

Reporting for Hidden New Jersey has made me a real fan of the statues that stand in many of our older parks. Where I once took them for gran...

Long-time readers know we have a special relationship with Ellis Island... the New Jersey side . As a volunteer with the National Park Servi...

Today it sits at the edge of New York Harbor, suffering from enduring damage suffered at the hand of Hurricane Sandy. A hundred years ago, i...

We've talked many times before about having to stop on the side of a highway to get a good look at a historic marker. The process usuall...

Drive eastbound on the Turnpike's Newark Bay extension, and as you approach Exit 14B for Liberty State Park, you might notice the road w...

Drivers in North Jersey have a love-hate relationship with the Pulaski Skyway. It's a toll-free alternative to the Turnpike's Newark...

Not long after Hurricane Sandy, I wrote about damage at Ellis Island  and the uncertain future of the unrestored Public Health Service immig...

I've mentioned before that I'm a volunteer interpretive guide at Ellis Island , informing visitors about the Public Health Service h...

New Yorkers flock to current day New Jersey for cheap gasoline and tax-free clothing shopping, but in the early days of the United States, t...

A while back I noted that the lion's share of Ellis Island is, in fact, in New Jersey . The man-made South Side of the island was constr...

Go to Liberty State Park today and you’ll see the remnants of its most immediate former use. The Jersey City terminal of the Central Ra...

True New Jersey scholars know that the first Europeans to settle here were the Dutch, who built the community of Bergen on the site of prese...