The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-25
NINE NEW Park Sites.
Selected by the Park COM
missioneTs Today.
THEIR LOCATION AND BOUNDARIES.
The People Will Meet to See What
They Think About Them
Next Saturday.

The Park Commissioners met this
morning in the First National Bank
Building and decided upon nine sites
from which to select the parks which
they are authorized to locate in this
county. General William C. Heppen-
heimer. Colonel E. A. Stevens and Messrs.
Charles b. Thurston, Garrett E. Winants
and Henry Lembeck were present. The
Board is required by law to select NUM-
Der of sites, and hold public meeting at
which arguments for and against the
plots chosen by them will be heard. The
meeting to consider the tracts adopted
this morning will be held in the Court
House on Saturday, February l, at one
p. m.
-FOUR BAYoNNE SITES.
These are the sites selected this morn
ing-First tract in the city OF Bayonne,
containing twenty five acres, and bounded
on the north by West Thirty seventh
street. on the east by Avenue B, on the
south by West Thirty-third street, and
on the west by the Newark Bay.
The second is also In Bayonne, and
embraces thirty acres. On the north is
West Forty-seventh street, on the east
Avenue B, on the south West Thirty
seventh street, and on the west Av-
enne A.
The Third is the largest of them all and
contains 101 acres. 1t is in BayOnne, and
is bounded on the north by West Fifty
seventh street: on the south by West
| Avenue A; on the east by Avenue A, from
the north side of West Forty-ninth street
to the east side of West Thirty seventh
street; then again south by the south side
of West Thirtv-seventh street, from Ave
nue. B to the Newark Bay, and on the
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of West Thirty seventh street to West
Eifty-seventh street.
The fourth tract embraces twenty
three acres of BaYonne's territory, which
lie between West Fifty-fifth and Fifty
seventh streets and Avenues B. and G.
FIVE JERSEY CITY SITES.
Jersey City contains the fifth tract,
which is of 1915 acres. 1t is bounded on
the north by Girard avenue, on the east
by Bergen avenue, on the south by 1ands
of William Currie from Bergen avenue
to the Newark Bay, and west by the
Newark Bay, exclusive of lands of the
Morris Canal and Bank Company.
The sixth plot is also in Jersey City anH
is bounded on the north by line drawn
parallel with Pearsall avenue and 200
feet southerly Jherefrom; east by a line
parallel with Bergen avenue and 800 feet
tnerefrom; south by line of William
! Currie's lands and west by Bergen
$500
thirty-six acres.
A tract containing fourteen two-fifth
acres comprises the sevente site, which is
| bounded on the north by Homestead ave.
nue; on the east by Ocean avenue; on the
south by Bid well avenue, aud sfs III sss
by Jackson avenue. This site as well as
the remaining two are in Jersey City.
The eighth is bounded on the north by
Bidwell avenue, on the east by Garfield
avenue, on the south by Stegman street,
and on the west by Ocean avenue. 1t
contains 10 As acres.
The last site contains q1[ acres, and
is that property on the brow of che hill
along Newark avenue, which is known as
| the Harrison estate.
TO CONDEMN KINGSWO0DS.
| The Commissioners nave definitely de-
cided to take the King tract in North
Hudson for a park site, but could not
come to any agreement with the owners
as to its price.
This morning the counsel of the Board,
! Judge Garretson, was instructed to pres
pare the necessary papers and take the
necessary steps to have the property con-
| demned.