Dear Editor:
This month marks the sixth anniversary of people’s participation in the Liberty State Park public hearings on the park’s Development Corporation’s golf course plan. The Hudson Reporter deserves credit for fully covering that major issue with very fair reporting.
At the CRRNJ Terminal on August 11, 1994 and in Trenton on August 25, the majority at both hearings spoke out passionately against the park’s commercialization and advocated strongly for a free and green park for varied unstructured recreation in this treasured urban waterfront oasis.
The park is sacred ground because of its location next to our great shrines to democracy, Miss Liberty and Ellis Island. The park was saved from an inappropriate plan because people spoke out and stopped the Development Corporation and some politicians who failed to see or who didn’t care about the park’s “big picture.”
Long live Liberty State Park as a free, non-commercialized, non-privatized public space!!
Sam Pesin
President