Essex-Hudson Greenway

The meeting will be held on at the Charles H. Bullock School Library from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The purchase agreement for nine miles of an abandoned rail line that runs from Montclair to Jersey City for the creation of the new Essex Hudson Greenway has been extended five months, to June 30. 

New Jersey will purchase nine miles of an abandoned rail line that runs from Montclair to Jersey City to create the Essex-Hudson Greenway, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Friday. 

In December 2020 during the pandemic, Montclairian Wheeler Antabanez took his first walk in the Meadowlands along the Newark Branch. Then he wrote a book.

Proponents of the plan for a nine-mile Essex-Hudson Greenway from Montclair to Jersey City are now exploring new options for funding the long-proposed project — but they’re being mum about what it is.

Proponents of a nine-mile Essex-Hudson Greenway from Montclair to Jersey City are trying to get a commitment from the state on funding by the end of July before time runs out, they say.

First suggested nearly 20 years ago, the Essex-Hudson Greenway Project is inching closer to reality, project officials say.

The Open Space Institute has reached a preliminary sale agreement with Norfolk Southern Railway Co. for property in Essex and Hudson counties for the creation of a nine-mile linear park.

On June 19, Norfolk Southern filed a petition with the Surface Transportation Board, a federal agency that oversees economic issues related to ground transportation, seeking to abandon the line and transfer ownership to the Open Space Institute, at a price of $65 million. 

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news NJ Transit has launched a study involving the Boonton Line, which locals have pegged as a future recreational bike and walking path — the Ice and Iron Greenway — running through Montclair. Over th...