Port Jervis, New York

Port Jervis is a city on the Delaware River in western Orange County, New York, with a population of 8,828 at the 2010 census. The communities ofDeerpark, Huguenot, Sparrowbush, and Greenville are adjacent to Port Jervis, and the towns of Montague, New Jersey and Matamoras, Pennsylvaniaface the city across the respective state borders. From late spring to early fall many thousands of travelers and tourists pass through Port Jervis on their way to enjoying rafting, kayaking, canoeing and other activities in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and the surrounding area.

Port Jervis is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.

In August 2008, Port Jervis was named one of "Ten Coolest Small Towns" by Budget Travel magazine.^[1]

Port Jervis Homes for Sale

Port Jervis Real Estate

Geography and transportation

Port Jervis is located on the north bank of the Delaware River at the point where: 1) the Neversink River – the Delaware's largest tributary – empties into the larger river; and 2) the Delaware makes a right turn to run south-southwest along Kittatinny Ridge Kittatinny Mountains – until reaching the Delaware Water Gap. A left turn through the Delaware Water Gap takes the Delaware River to continue on to Trenton, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Delaware Bay. Port Jervis is connected by the Mid-Delaware Bridge across the Delaware to Matamoras, Pennsylvania.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km²), of which, 2.5 square miles (6.5 km²) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km²) (6.64%) is water.

US 6, US 209, NY 42, and NY 97 (the "Upper Delaware Scenic Byway"^[2]) pass through Port Jervis. Interstate 84 passes to the south.

Port Jervis is the last stop on the 95-mile-long (153 km) Port Jervis Line, which is a commuter railroad service from Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City that is contracted to NJ Transit by the Metro-North Railroad of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The track itself continues on toBinghamton and Buffalo, but passenger service beyond Port Jervis was discontinued in 1966.

Tri-State Rock or Monument overlooking the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink Rivers

State line monuments

Port Jervis lies near the points where the states of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania come together. South of the Laurel Grove Cemetery, under the viaduct for Interstate 84, are two monuments marking the boundaries between the three states.^[3]

The larger monument is a granite pillar inscribed "Witness Monument" and dated 1882. It is not on any boundary itself, but instead is a witness for two boundary points. On the north side (New York), it references the corner boundary point between New York and Pennsylvania that is located in the center of the Delaware River 475 feet (145 m) due west of the Tri-State Rock. On the south side (New Jersey), it references the Tri-State Rock 27.5 feet (8.4 m) to the south.

The smaller monument, Tri-State Rock, marks both the northwest end of the New Jersey and New York boundary and the north end of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania boundary.^[4] It is a small granite block with inscribed lines marking the boundaries of the three states and a bronze National Geodetic Survey marker at the triple point, where you can stand in three states at once. It also marks the northernmost point of New Jersey. The current Tri-State Monument is a replacement for the original monument erected in 1774, which was important in resolving the New York - New Jersey Line War.