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WTC Tragedy Reverberates in the Garden State

JERSEY CITY-Besides being eyewitnesses to the carnage unfolding across the Hudson River, New Jerseyans have seen their world turned upside down by the terrorist attack on the twin towers.

By Eric Peterson | Updated on September 12, 2001

JERSEY CITY-A state park turned into a triage center, a redevelopment site turned into a morgue, commuter ferries turned into waterborne ambulances…that’s the scene that unfolded in New Jersey in the 24 hours after hijacked jetliners were flown into the twin towers of Manhattan’s World Trade Center Tuesday.

Liberty State Park and its Liberty Science Center has been a showplace of Jersey City’s rebirth. Tuesday, it became a symbol of the carnage wreaked by terrorists at the WTC, just across the river. With commuter ferries bringing the injured over in droves, the pristine environment was turned into a civilian MASH unit. And Newark’s Penn Station, which hosts thousands of commuters daily, was similarly turned into a triage site.

New Jersey’s commuter ferries put, Tuesday night, to an even more dire use. Victims of the attack were carried across the harbor to the largely vacant Military Ocean Terminal in Bayonne, NJ, which is destined for a massive redevelopment (see earlier story). Tuesday, however, a portion of the MOT was turned into a makeshift morgue.

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