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Using the High Line as a Model, Jersey City Bets on the Embankment At the intersection of Jersey Avenue and 6th Street, in downtown Jersey City, stands an imposing structure of stone and granite that towers over a Brownstone-lined street. Ivy cascades down the sides, while 20- and 30-foot-tall trees grow on top. Huge reddish brown boulders pile up for two stories, with tiny fern-like plants breaking out of the crevices. It’s Stephen Gucciardo’s favorite section of the Embankment, a six-block, half mile-long spur of the Pennsylvania Railroad. “Without any of us having touched the Embankment, it’s already a park,” Gucciardo said. Read more.

Using the High Line as a Model, Jersey City Bets on the Embankment

At the intersection of Jersey Avenue and 6th Street, in downtown Jersey City, stands an imposing structure of stone and granite that towers over a Brownstone-lined street. Ivy cascades down the sides, while 20- and 30-foot-tall trees grow on top. Huge reddish brown boulders pile up for two stories, with tiny fern-like plants breaking out of the crevices. It’s Stephen Gucciardo’s favorite section of the Embankment, a six-block, half mile-long spur of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

“Without any of us having touched the Embankment, it’s already a park,” Gucciardo said. Read more.

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  1. parkland reblogged this from wnyc and added:
    this would be sweet.
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  3. fiduciarydoody reblogged this from wnyc and added:
    It would be nice to see another park...City for playing
  4. journalofajournalist reblogged this from thatandycohen and added:
    Hey, I lived around the corner from here.
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