Gerrity Athletic Complex
A New Jersey Turnpike bridge over Newark Bay is in the distance at the Gerrity Athletic Complex, Apr-2005.
The football grandstand is visible down the right-field line. A condo complex borders the outfield.
Quick Facts:
- Location: NJ 440 south of Danforth Avenue, Jersey City, N.J.
- Opened: 1989 (approx.)
- Home team: New Jersey City University Gothic Knights, New Jersey Athletic Conference
- Capacity: 500
Tidelands Athletic Complex was built in the late 1980s on the edge of property that at one time hosted Roosevelt Stadium, a Depression-era park that hosted Jersey City’s minor league teams through 1978 as well as fifteen Brooklyn Dodgers games in 1956 and 1957. Sadly, the park was not well-maintained and it was torn down in 1983.
The complex, since named for Thomas M. Gerrity, hosts a football field as well as fields for baseball and softball. The baseball scoreboard is mounted from the back of the football grandstand, and it converts for soccer. A portable right-field fence is removed so that the field may be used for soccer.
Baseball facilities here are minimal. Seating consists of short bleachers along each foul line, and there is a spartan press box behind the plate.
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