Security centre in New Jersey for Liberty State Park closed

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The security screening centre in New Jersey that checks visitors for the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island is closed because of structural concerns.

Visitors in New Jersey trying to visit the statue or island are being ferried to Lower Manhattan, where they can be screened at a security facility in New York City’s Battery Park. Ferries will return to New Jersey.

Officials are trying to come up with a contingency for visitors if the centre must remain closed.

National Park Service spokesman Jerry Willis says there was bowing visible Tuesday in the tent-like screening centre. The structure features airport-style X-ray screening.

Willis says about 100 to 300 passengers take the ferry daily from New Jersey in January, compared to 5,000 to 7,000 in July.

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