Proposed River Edge Museum Remains Work in Progress
The Bergen County Historical Society has proposed constructing a museum at New Bridge Landing. To date the Society has raised $130,000 through private donations towards the museum project
While the fight over state funding continues between the Bergen County Historical Society and the Department of Environmental Protection, preliminary plans to construct a $350,000 museum at New Bridge Landing (NBL) remains a work in progress. To date the Society has raised $130,000 towards the construction of an 18th century Dutch barn replica that would house the Society's many artifacts which haven been placed in storage since the April 2007 Nor'easter. " Fundraising is going well," NBL Park Commission secretary Kevin Wright said. "We've raised $130,000 to date, almost entirely from small donations. We obviously are looking to elevate the building on pilings or columns of some type and to site it on the Society's lands, so we're …
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mike Trepicchio
4:31 pm on Thursday, February 28, 2013
Historic New Bridge Landing encompasses all publicly owned land, buildings, and structures fronting the Hackensack River at the former village of of New Bridge; fronting Hackensack Ave, and fronting Main St, east of Hackensack Ave and north of Coles Brook, in River Edge; fronting on Old New Bridge Rd, on Steuben PL in New Milford; lying south of Riverview Ave, east to River Rd in Teaneck; and … more ›