E is for Edgewater Traditional Cache
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Edgewater is situated along the Hudson River in Bergen County.
Originally formed on December 7, 1894, from portions of Ridgefield
Township as the Borough of Undercliff, the name was changed to
Edgewater on November 8, 1899. Borough Hall, the Binghamton Ferry
(where you'll find yourself for this cache) and the Edgewater Free
Public Library are listed on both the National Register of Historic
Places and the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.
The Binghamton Ferry is permanently anchored at the Binghamton
Shopping Plaza. It was built in 1904-1905 in Newport, RI. The only
double-ended ferry boat still on the Hudson River, the Binghamton
ferried passengers from New Jersey to Barclay Street in Manhattan
and operated from 1905 to 1967 transporting passengers across the
Hudson River between Manhattan and Hoboken. She was built for the
Hoboken Ferry Company of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Railroad and was designed to carry 986 passengers plus vehicles.
Binghamton has been permanently moored at Edgewater, New Jersey
since 1971. The US Department of the Interior added her to the
National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1982. Operated as a
floating restaurant from 1975 to 2007, the vessel is now closed and
awaiting reuse.
The Binghamton is significant as possibly the last surviving steam
ferry still afloat built to serve New York Harbor, the birthplace
of commercial steam navigation, the birthplace of the double-ended
steam ferry, and an area whose development was profoundly shaped by
the introduction of vessels of this kind.
Edgewater also boasts the last remaining of 15 Carnegie libraries
in New Jersey built with funds from the Carnegie Foundation.
The promenade you find yourself on is part of the Hudson River
Waterfront Walkway. Of the 18.5 miles called for by state law, only
11 are complete, and many of the gaps occur in Edgewater.
Nevertheless, the completed stretches offer paths for walking along
the Hudson River with views of Manhattan.
Edgewater is also the home of a free-flying colony of Monk
Parakeets, also known as Quaker Parrots. These small, green parrots
have lived in Edgewater since at least 1980 and were numbered at
200 to 230 in a 2008 New York Times article. They are easily seen
in Memorial Park and its vicinity at River Road and Route 5. The
parrots build large nests of twigs and down which become permanent
residences. Nests four feet long can be seen near the intersection.
How the birds came to Edgewater is unknown, though a widely
accepted story traces their origin to an escape from a damaged
crate at John F. Kennedy Airport in the 1960s.
Edgewater was used as the location of the fictional town of
Garrison, NJ in the 1997 movie, Cop Land, starring Sylvester
Stallone, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta.
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