New Jersey

NEW York City’s subway system is among the world’s largest but is largely stuck in time, like a fly in amber. Because of construction safety precautions, environmental concerns, $$$ and…

I don’t have much to say today except to say my explorations of Newark, NJ have been shamefully few over the years, paling, for example, next to Jersey City or…

My visits to New Jersey have been sporadic. For 30 years, on occasion, I have spent a lot of time in Hoboken and even worked there for a year in…

BACK in March I took a PATH train to Newark and then rode the Newark Light Rail all the way to its terminal at Grove Street in Bloomfield, which is…

I keep meaning to explore Newark, NJ more frequently since I have made only a few forays into NYC’s westerly neighbor; I have visited Jersey City, Hoboken and even Hackensack…

I haven’t been able to get outside NYC much… unemployment gives me the time, but not the money. However, I have ambitions of expanding Forgotten New York to include the…

In a  bit of a rush today but I’ll post one of my finds from a recent walk from Jersey City to Hoboken for a Blimpie sandwich (I was successful…

Here’s an aged porcelain street signs/arrow-shaped one-way combo I found on Bloomfield and 5th Streets in Hoboken in 1999. Google Street View confirms the cluster was still there in 2007,…

I worked in Hoboken most of 2016 and was endlessly fascinated with this aged guy-wired stoplight on Washington and 1st Streets, across from the Hoboken City Hall. I was disappointed…

Tempus fugit. It’s been almost three years since I staggered around Hamilton Park in Jersey City and though I got over 90 photos on the occasion, I had yet to…

Tucked in at Hoboken’s north end, at 1313 Washington (numbered addresses are easy in Hoboken; it’s between 13th and 14th Street) is the Romanesque Revival Engine Company #2, which is…

Here’s a dayburning General Electric M-400 I found during a walk in Hoboken. These lamps shine a greenish-white when fully illuminated at night, but during the day, or when first…