IIRC, NY has complete jurisdiction up to the low water mark in the entire
NYNJ harbor area, even on the NJ shoreline; with the provision that NJ may
construct wharves and piers. NJ controls only the muck underneath the water
out to the midpoint of the Hudson and the Bay. NJ does not share control of
shipping expect through the Port Authority system.

This must be why they call NY the Empire State. It is very imperial.

-----Original Message-----
From: acroorca2002 [mailto:orc@...]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 9:58 AM
To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Boundaries through urban areas

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> Yes, I have read in the past about the jurisdictions in the NJNY

port area, and

> I seem to remember that it says that NY has jurisdiction over ships

in certain

> NJ waters and vice versa. Is there any actual concurrent

jurisdiction, whereby

> a person is subject to obey the laws of BOTH states?
>