Port Liberté, Jersey City

Port Liberté is a section of Jersey City located on Caven Point, formerly one of the last natural sand beaches on the Upper New York Bay.

[1] The community is a European style village located along the western side of Upper New York Bay.

NY Waterway-operated ferries travel to Pier 11/Wall Street in Manhattan on weekdays during the morning and evening commuter periods.

The new set of real estate was designed by François Spoerry, a French architect, who invented the concept of "soft architecture", that would prefigure new urbanism.

However, the complexity of the design, the costly canal engineering and the collapse of Wall Street in the late 1980s drove the project to bankruptcy.