State of New Jersey to Secure Purchase Rights for Former Rail Line to Create Nine-Mile Greenway in Northern New Jersey.

State to Allocate $65 Million to Acquire Former Railway Property for Transformational Linear Park Project

After decades of local advocacy and outreach and more than three years of direct negotiations, the Essex-Hudson Greenway (EHG) Coalition announced on November 12, 2021, that the State of New Jersey will secure purchase rights to nearly nine miles of former railway, spanning two counties and eight municipalities in one of the most highly populated regions of northern New Jersey. Under a framework announced by Governor Phil Murphy earlier on Friday, the State will purchase the 135-acre property.

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