Looks like Leonard park, near the southwest side.

Ahh yes, thank you

It is Leonard Gordon in the Heights

Old timers know this as Mosquito Park. It's also the best sledding in the city.

Was it nicknamed mosquito park due to drug use there? A friend asked me about that recently and that was my assumption.

I have heard 2 stories on the origin of the name. One is that mosquitos would come when the wind blew from the west over all the pig farms of Secaucus. The other is that water coming up from an underwater spring in the park attracted mosquitos. Personally, I don't recall getting bitten there.

I live right around here and go there often. Mosquitos are more a problem in the surrounding streets than in the park itself thanks to unkempt grass/weeds and standing water. The park itself, while in need of some TLC, is at least trimmed and maintained which means fewer places for pests to hide and thrive. Maybe that wasn't always the case.

I don't think so. My father was from around there and they called it that 70 years ago in his childhood.

great sunsets from that park.

Didnt know that wasnt the actual name tbh

I have also nicknamed this park "Bear Park" for it's statues at its entrance.

Old timers? I’m 28 and it’s always been mosquito park to us “old timers” up here 😅

Fun fact: the buffalo and wolf sculptures in that park were sculpted by an artist whose brother sculpted Mt Rushmore!

Get a great sunset view here too! I can't remember the name but it's on jfk and Manhattan Ave

😂 I thought as kids we made that name up! My kid now calls it bear park.

Thats not Mosquito. That view is too far south. You dont see the smokestacks.

Bayonne Park?

Mosquito park was called that because it is still very wet in the back, and so was full of them. People slept under nets especially on the west side. There was yellow fever, malaria and encephalitis.

The Mosquito Control Board of Hudson County was started by the early 20th century. Jersey City Medical Center did research on yellow fever. The Board continues to trap and record mosquitos continually, sending samples to Trenton and census numbers. We are surrounded by wet land. In the 19th century we were known for celery, a luxury of the rich that, even today, is grown in mucky soil. The hospital of chronic cases ( many having encephalitis) was run by the County.
When West Nile virus was first discovered, Hudson County had far fewer cases than New York City, or Long Island because the Mosquito Control Board had continued to track and trap.