Newark, NJ has installed some new faux-retro streetlights in its downtown area recently, but unfortunately, that’s served as the death knell for several grand old cast iron specimens along Market…
New Jersey
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I think I’ll have to take New Jersey Transit to Ridgewood, NJ. Why? It’s got plenty of ancient “gumball” incandescent light fixtures, complete with their original telephone pole masts, and…
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The Hudson Observer hasn’t been published since 1951 (when it merged with the Jersey Observer). The Hudson Observer Building is still at 111 Newark Street (at Bloomfield); Observer Highway, formerly Ferry Street, hasn’t gotten…
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I was clattering about Jersey City the other day, and turning a corner, I beheld a sight that shocked me. The smokestacks of the mighty Hudson and Manhattan Powerhouse, one…
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The familiar octagonal Colgate clock, facing Manhattan and visible from the Wagner Park riverside walk in Battery Park City, dates back to 1924 when it was set in motion on…
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The loss of several hundred photos shot in 2013 because of a hard drive incident has forced me to go deep into the ForgottenArchives, and so I fished out this…
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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…
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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…
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Four auto traffic bridges connect Staten Island to the outside world. In order of construction, they are the Outerbridge Crossing (named for its engineer, not because it is in the…
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While I was lounging on the poop deck of a Seastreak ferryboat (that name has always reminded me of the old Oakland Raider, Otis Sistrunk) on Saturday, September 22, 2012,…
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This July we’ll be walking the George Washington Bridge to Fort Lee in the dead dog heat of summer for hot dogs at Hiram’s. Details coming soon.
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“There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run,” once sang Canadian Gordon Lightfoot, and as hard to believe as it is now, NYC and New Jersey…