Nearly seven months after Hurricane Sandy destroyed the footbridge leading from Jersey Avenue to Liberty State Park, Jersey City officials will open a newly installed bridge just in time for Memorial Day.

The new footbridge, built at a cost of about $800,000, will be named the Ethel Pesin Liberty Footbridge, after the late wife of the state park's founder. Pesin died in February at 98.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy and other officials will appear at the ribbon cutting tomorrow morning.

Healy said earlier this month that the new bridge is a “gigantic improvement” over the old one, which was destroyed during the Oct. 29 storm.

The new bridge is higher, which will lead to less of a chance that a future storm's floodwaters will damage it, Healy said. And there is plenty of room on the side of the new bridge in case Jersey City obtains funds to construct a roadway connecting Jersey Avenue to Liberty State Park.

“In a sense, we might have been lucky that the hurricane destroyed the bridge,” the mayor joked on May 2 when the new bridge was delivered to the foot of Jersey Avenue.

The city has applied for federal funds to pick up the cost of the bridge.

The ribbon cutting will begin at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Jersey Avenue and Mill Creek, near the Jersey City Medical Center.