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.

At the same time, the closure of Hudson River bridges and tunnels prevented New Jerseyans who work in New York from getting to their jobs. Numerous road closures in northeastern New Jersey, for security and control of New York-bound traffic tied up business and commerce. The Port Authority of NY/NJ's PATH rail system was one of the few functioning links between the two states.