"A Huge Win" for LSP advocates in defeating billionaire Paul Fireman's and his funded surrogates' war on LSP
pushing a sports and entertainment complex - ignoring current and the decades of the
broad public consensus for LSP as a  Central Park type park, and reprehensibly using falsehoods and smear attacks.

- DEP WEBPAGE for Phases of LSP REVITALIZATION PROGRAM

- 5-28-23 The Star Ledger Editorial "Liberty State Park: The good guys finally won"
"The ultimate vision of a pristine urban oasis – protected from garish development, political dithering, and billionaire hubris
 took a giant step closer to reality last week, when a massive plan to revitalize LSP was announced by the DEP".

- 5-26-23 The Jersey Journal Editorial "LSP plan on right track; proponents of outsized vision should move on"
"LaTourette and Gov. Murphy – even though the latter has been frustratingly silent on the issue, until releasing a statement of support late Wednesday -- deserve kudos for advancing the plan that makes the best sense for what the DEP is calling the “revitalization” of LSP. In doing so, they are pushing back against the considerable resources of a loud contingent, funded by the billionaire owner of the exclusive golf club next door, that has used fearmongering and misinformation in an ugly, divisive campaign for stadiums, arenas and concert venues. (That golf club owner, Paul Fireman, also happens to be a generous donor to political candidates and area nonprofits.)"

- 5-3-23 Jersey City Times "DEP Commissioner Appears to Put Kibosh on Stadium Plan at LSP"
"Sam Pesin, Friends of LSP President, praised Commissioner LaTourette saying, “What happened at the open house was a total defeat of the billionaire’s and his funded surrogates’ plans for a sports and entertainment complex. Their plans are in the dustbin of Liberty Park history.“

- News Stories, Editorials & Guest Columns on Victory over Fireman's Sports and Entertainment Complex   -  and the battle against those plans and the LSP protection Act - Archive  

- Winter 2023 FOLSP Statement against Fireman's commercial venue plans and FOLSP support for DEP plans and planning process 

- LSP will continue having periodic large admission-fee events in its designated festival areas.
- Best location for a band shell/amphitheater is the "North Cove Field" behind the Ferry Parking Lot.
- DEP shall only allow small-scale commercial activities.

The destructive commercial venues slide shows and propaganda of billionaire Paul Fireman and his surrogates are here

• NO Exclusionary Admission-Fee Traffic Jam-Causing Commercial venues robbing our public parkland and blocking public access!

• NO 5,000 and 2,500 seat Stadiums and NO 7,000 seat Commercial Concert Venue and NO NHL level hockey rink with 2,000 seats.

Billionaire Paul Fireman's & his funded front groups' second rendering with their commercial venues labeled by Friends

DEP Summary Report from Advisory Task Force from March 2023

- Media Pieces Linking Paul Fireman to front groups and to Interior Commercial Venues plans

- DEP LSP Survey 3652 responses in 2020-2021 on Free Active Recreation Amenities

- "The Point" Trailer in support of the LSP's Protection Act and Caven Point

- Thanks to the 33,000 signers of the LSP Protection Act Petition

- Coalition to Pass the Liberty State Park Protection Act and Save the Park's Caven Point  Natural Area 111 groups 2-12-22

- Friends of LSP history of support for Central Park type-park with active recreation

- DEP 1978 Geddes Master Plan 20-page summary

- DEP 1978 Geddes Master Map Legend

- LSP 1978 Master Plan Similarities to LSP reality including current DEP plans

- LSP 1978 Master Plan lead designer Robert Geddes statement opposing Fireman plans June 2022

- New York Times Obituary of Robert Geddes on 2/13/23 - the 1978 Master Plan lead designer
excerpt: Mr. Geddes's master plan for Liberty State Park in Jersey City, which transformed 800 acres of derelict landfill into open lawns and a crescent waterfront walkway with sweeping views of Manhattan, was exhibited in the Museum if Modern Art in New York in 1979.
But more important for Mr. Geddes, "it is a design that seems to be working today." "In terms of impact, the plan for the park is doing ver well, " he said in 2021 interview.

 

- 6/15/22 The Jersey Journal guest column Dozens of Black, Latino community leaders and activists call for LSP Protective Act passage 
"We downright condemn the falsehoods attacking the LSP Protection Act by billionaire Paul Fireman and his funded group, and we affirm our support for the Act in alliance with the coalition of over 100 groups and over 31,700 petition signers." (petition got to 32,559)

- Refuting Lies & Smear Attacks by Fireman's surrogates on Protection Act & Friends

- Protection Act one page summary and privatization battle against billionaire Paul Fireman

  

- Fireman Big Lie about abandoning Caven Point Natural Area privatization goal

 

- 8/24/20 Jersey Journal milestone story & editorial quotes refuting & condemning Fireman surrogates' "vicious & untruthful" attacks

- The LSP Protection Act -  Assembly bill A 1957 and Senate bill S907

- Before 12/1/19 - News stories, editorials, letters to the editor, press releases

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Archived history of the grassroots battle against the billionaire's plan, rejected by DEP in 2018

  

- NJ Legislators' Roster of Members - contact info by districts and also by their names alphabetically in Senate and Assembly