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The Lower Manhattan skyline and the new World Trade Center as seen through a maze of wires and telephone poles from a once highly industrial area of Jersey City. May 2013.

Kind of like an urban "Where's Waldo". Can you find the man operating a bulldozer?

Uploaded on May 16, 2013

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Although now totally forgotten, this is one of my all-time favorite cars from the early 1970s. The GORGEOUS Toyota Celica. Like a 1968 Camaro, but the size of a Ford Pinto. Amazing lines! Drool....

Uploaded on May 11, 2013

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Now and Then view: Taking a stroll by the abandoned and battered Clorox plant in the Lafayette neighborhood. Jersey City. 2013 (==> with a link to 1951)

(my new blue Honda Civic in the corner. Thought I'd introduce it to Hudson County this past Sunday. Its...

Uploaded on May 7, 2013

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You know that long cobblestone road at Liberty State Park? Here’s Johnston Ave in its previous life. World Trade Center North Tower going up, Lehigh Valley Railroad Pier G, Colgate plant smokestacks. No tourists here! Jersey City. 1969

Uploaded on Apr 22, 2013

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Now and Then view: Ominously dark sky over the Brooklyn Bridge threatens more snowfall onto busy South Street. Horse carts and trucks near the Battery. New York. (==> with a link to 1920).

Uploaded on Apr 17, 2013

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Mayor Frank Hague’s Kingdom (part 3). RARE, even older view of smoky, hazy, industrial life at 12th Street and Jersey Avenue by the end of the new State Highway 139 viaduct. Empire State Building and Manhattan skyline in the distance. Jersey City. 1927

Uploaded on Apr 2, 2013

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In keeping with the all the bleak photos I’ve been uploading lately, here’s one of the Jersey City Medical Center and its Powerhouse, abandoned, littered and in ruins. 1977.

What amazes me is that it took only 40 years to go from brand new in the 1930s to the scene above....

Uploaded on Mar 28, 2013

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All that was once necessary passes eventually into obscurity. Abandoned Erie railroad trestle at Monmouth Street and the 10th Street Embankment revert back to nature. Jersey City. May 2012.

Uploaded on Mar 23, 2013

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Abandoned ferry piers at the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal to Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center on a foggy, still day in April 1976. Jersey City.

If you view it in the largest size, you can also see the Battery Park City landfill being constructed and...

Uploaded on Mar 18, 2013

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Smoggy view of the Harsimus Cove Pennsylvania Railroad yards at the foot of Pavonia Avenue. The Hudson and Manhattan Powerhouse at center right and the New York skyline across the Hudson. Jersey City. 1951

Uploaded on Mar 12, 2013

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Zooming by a weedy and desolate field in the Bronx on the Major Deegan Expressway looking to abandoned factories in Manhattan on the other side of the Harlem River. New York. February 1971.

Uploaded on Mar 7, 2013

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A somewhat nerdy 14 year old me on top of dad’s 1965 Pontiac with our L.A. cousins who just arrived to spend the whole summer with us in Milford, Connecticut. JFK airport. Queens New York. July 1973.

Uploaded on Mar 2, 2013

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Strip away all the tall new apartments, stores and condominiums and you have the old Hudson and Manhattan Powerhouse surrounded by abandoned industrial buildings and a lone train making its way through the snow. Jersey City. 1978.

Took this with my dad's old 1950s Kodak 35mm camera loaded up with Kodachrome slides. It was one of those...

Uploaded on Feb 24, 2013

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The Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal and ferries to Manhattan at Exchange Place. There was a large lumber yard immediately north of the tracks (A.M.Dodge & Co). Jersey City. 1883.

Uploaded on Feb 17, 2013

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If you stood on top of the Met Life building in 1914 and looked south, you would see the Brooklyn Bridge, Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan skyscrapers including the new Singer Building, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Jersey City. Quite a sight!

Uploaded on Feb 13, 2013

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Mayor Frank Hague’s Kingdom (part 2). Smokey, hazy, industrial life at 12th Street and Jersey Avenue by the very end of the State Highway 139 viaduct. The Empire State Building is barely visible at the center left in Manhattan. Jersey City. 1939

If you're curious, here's Part 1 of Mayor Frank Hague's Kingdom in 1939... www.flickr.com/photos/w avz13/8247215923/

Uploaded on Feb 2, 2013

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By the late 1960s, vast swaths of Lower Manhattan were gritty, abandoned relics of 19th century industry and housing. Looking to the Brooklyn Bridge from Gold Street in the foreground and Beekman Street at right. New York. 1967

Uploaded on Jan 29, 2013

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Ever wonder what it was like to stand on top of the Equitable building and take in Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, New York Harbor, Governor’s Island, Statue of Liberty, Jersey City and the Hudson River in 1908?

If you look at the extreme right side of this view, you can see just a tiny bit of the Singer Building and...

Uploaded on Jan 19, 2013

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