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One thing I’ve noticed while walking around Bayonne, Hoboken and Jersey City (I haven’t attempted Newark, Union City, Weehawken etc. yet) is that while you do see modern green and white street signs, in many places the porcelain and metal signs of the 1940s and 1950s have been allowed to remain in place…because they do [...]
Categorized in: Out of Town Signs Tagged with: Hoboken New Jersey
Willow Terrace, between Clinton Street, Willow Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets, looks much as it did in 1880 when it was constructed by the Stevens family (of Stevens Institute fame) for laborers working on the nearby institute. Stevens Institute, founded in 1870, is America’s first college of mechanical engineering. It commands a spectacular view of [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Out of Town Tagged with: Hoboken New Jersey
In 1963, the life of a 6-year-old lamppost enthusiast changed irrevocably: the cast iron Type 24M “Corvington” poles that had dominated the streets of Bay Ridge disappeared seemingly overnight, with mostly all of them replaced by streamlined aluminum poles with octagonal shafts. Most of the shafts were topped by straightarm masts, some by cobra-necked ones, and [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Fort Schuyler General Electric Hoboken Jackson Heights Madison Square McCarren Park Queens Rosedale Westinghouse
Your webmaster knows full well he will be ridiculed, pilloried and threatened with everything from lawsuits to bodily harm for including Hoboken on a Forgotten NY site. New Jersey, the Sixth Borough, has a large and mostly unspoken Forgotten history, and for the most part, we’ll leave it to the two Marks of Weird NJ to cover the [...]
Categorized in: Out of Town Street Scenes Tagged with: Hoboken New Jersey
