Liberty Island Utility services, including electricity, water, and sewage, to Liberty and Ellis Islands are provided from the New Jersey side. Mail is delivered from Battery Park. Liberty Island Liberty Island is a federally owned island in Upper New York Bay in the United States, best known as the location of the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World"). The island is an exclave of the New York City borough of Manhattan, surrounded by the waters of Jersey City, New Jersey. Long known as Bedloe's Island, it was renamed by an act of the United States Congress in 1956. Liberty Island became
USS Marcus Island and to AKV-27 on 7 May 1959. She was sold at Boston to Comarket, Inc. on 29 February 1960. "Marcus Island" received four battle stars for World War II service. Some claims that the ship received five battle stars but not yet proved. USS Marcus Island USS "Marcus Island" (CVE-77) was an "Casablanca" class escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was laid down as Kanalku Bay under Maritime Commission contract by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Washington on 15 September 1943; renamed Marcus Island on 6 November 1943; launched on 16 December 1943; sponsored by Mrs. S. L. La