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Aerial view of the Pennsylvania Railroad connection to its terminal and ferries on the Hudson River at Exchange Place in Jersey City. The Colgate plant at right. 1960

Uploaded on Feb 22, 2012

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A little bit of the old Jersey City lives on at the end of the Morris Canal even as the rest of the world changes around it. Where vintage tugboats and red cranes go to die. Feb 2012

Uploaded on Feb 20, 2012

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Now and Then view: The viaduct for westbound traffic from the Holland Tunnel as it looks now with dumbed-down signs, and the Emerson Radio factory an abandoned relic. The art deco signpost is still the same, although the I-beam is now rusty. Jersey City

No more cool neon road signs like in the 1953 view.

Uploaded on Feb 19, 2012

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Weedy ruins of the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal from 1913 graced by the elegant modernist forms of the World Trade Center. Jersey City. 1977

Uploaded on Feb 17, 2012

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Colgate Clock on top of the Colgate plant in Jersey City. At night it would glow with hundreds of light bulbs. A giant toothpaste tube stood to its right with a striped cap. This shows the very beginning of the factory's demolition in 1988.

Uploaded on Feb 16, 2012

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Erie Lackawanna train yards and float bridges in Pavonia. Yes, Newport residents, your neighborhood once looked like this. Jersey City, New Jersey. Jan. 1961

Uploaded on Feb 15, 2012

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Long retired, the Colgate Clock in Jersey City sits in a weedy field by the Morris Canal. Life goes on in Lower Manhattan on a dreary winter day as the World Trade Center grows taller. Feb 2012.

Uploaded on Feb 11, 2012

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Delaware Lackawanna train yards in Hoboken on the right before the terminal was built in 1907. The tracks were elevated then on tall piles. Erie railroad yards and Pavonia Avenue on the left. Jersey City. 1883

Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012

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Daily life on the Morris Canal small and large basins with lots of sailboats, coal barges, horses and wagons, factories, trains entering the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal. Jersey City. 1883

Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012

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Lower Manhattan and the new World Trade Center as seen through the railroad yards of Hoboken from Observer Highway. A contrast between old technology and the new. Feb 2012

Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012

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End of civilization as we know it. Forty years after the worldwide plague finally subsided, only the most primitive, hardiest weeds and bushes were capable of survival.

Uploaded on Feb 7, 2012

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Now and Then view... Montgomery Street in Jersey City to Exchange Place and the new World Trade Center across the Hudson (with a link to how it looked on July 4, 1976)

Uploaded on Feb 6, 2012

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Now and Then view... Hoboken Avenue in Jersey City towards Bergen Hill. Still looks weedy and desolate, but it's had a very long history of that. Below is a link to how it looked in 1951.

Uploaded on Feb 5, 2012

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A new scan of an old fave. Industrial wasteland in Hoboken and Jersey City from an abandoned lot off Observer Highway on a smoggy day. An Erie Lackawanna train at bottom speeds to Hoboken Terminal. Jersey City, New Jersey. May 1975

As an adventurous 16 year old, I stepped off the Erie Lackawanna train in Hoboken, left the terminal, lit...

Uploaded on Jan 31, 2012

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Panoramic view of trains, tracks, piles of ties at the Central Railroad of New Jersey yards off Johnston Avenue. Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn loom in the smoky distance. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1951

Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012

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Abandoned gothic Lehigh Valley railroad warehouse ruins in Black Tom. It survived the massive sabotage munitions explosion of 1916. By the early 1960s, it was a relic of another time. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1960

Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012

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Lehigh Valley railroad yards at the Johnston Avenue pier looking to the Morris Canal, The Hudson River and Lower Manhattan (with the Singer Building at upper right). Jersey City, New Jersey. 1954

Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Airplane view of the Jersey City, New Jersey shoreline with the Morris Canal, railroad tracks leading to the Hudson, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Caven Point Pier and Lower Manhattan. 1965.

All of this land was filled in from New York Harbor by the railroads between the 1880s and the 1930s. By...

Uploaded on Jan 24, 2012

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Aerial view of the Pennsylvania Railroad connection to its terminal and ferries on the Hudson River at Exchange Place in Jersey City. The Colgate plant at right. 1960

A little bit of the old Jersey City lives on at the end of the Morris Canal even as the rest of the world changes around it. Where vintage tugboats and red cranes go to die. Feb 2012

Now and Then view: The viaduct for westbound traffic from the Holland Tunnel as it looks now with dumbed-down signs, and the Emerson Radio factory an abandoned relic. The art deco signpost is still the same, although the I-beam is now rusty. Jersey City

Weedy ruins of the Central Railroad of New Jersey terminal from 1913 graced by the elegant modernist forms of the World Trade Center. Jersey City. 1977

Colgate Clock on top of the Colgate plant in Jersey City. At night it would glow with hundreds of light bulbs. A giant toothpaste tube stood to its right with a striped cap. This shows the very beginning of the factory's demolition in 1988.

Erie Lackawanna train yards and float bridges in Pavonia. Yes, Newport residents, your neighborhood once looked like this. Jersey City, New Jersey. Jan. 1961

Long retired, the Colgate Clock in Jersey City sits in a weedy field by the Morris Canal. Life goes on in Lower Manhattan on a dreary winter day as the World Trade Center grows taller. Feb 2012.

Delaware Lackawanna train yards in Hoboken on the right before the terminal was built in 1907. The tracks were elevated then on tall piles. Erie railroad yards and Pavonia Avenue on the left. Jersey City. 1883

Daily life on the Morris Canal small and large basins with lots of sailboats, coal barges, horses and wagons, factories, trains entering the Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal. Jersey City. 1883

Lower Manhattan and the new World Trade Center as seen through the railroad yards of Hoboken from Observer Highway. A contrast between old technology and the new. Feb 2012

End of civilization as we know it. Forty years after the worldwide plague finally subsided, only the most primitive, hardiest weeds and bushes were capable of survival.

Now and Then view... Montgomery Street in Jersey City to Exchange Place and the new World Trade Center across the Hudson (with a link to how it looked on July 4, 1976)

Now and Then view... Hoboken Avenue in Jersey City towards Bergen Hill. Still looks weedy and desolate, but it's had a very long history of that. Below is a link to how it looked in 1951.

A new scan of an old fave. Industrial wasteland in Hoboken and Jersey City from an abandoned lot off Observer Highway on a smoggy day. An Erie Lackawanna train at bottom speeds to Hoboken Terminal. Jersey City, New Jersey. May 1975

Panoramic view of trains, tracks, piles of ties at the Central Railroad of New Jersey yards off Johnston Avenue. Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn loom in the smoky distance. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1951

Abandoned gothic Lehigh Valley railroad warehouse ruins in Black Tom. It survived the massive sabotage munitions explosion of 1916. By the early 1960s, it was a relic of another time. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1960

Lehigh Valley railroad yards at the Johnston Avenue pier looking to the Morris Canal, The Hudson River and Lower Manhattan (with the Singer Building at upper right). Jersey City, New Jersey. 1954

Airplane view of the Jersey City, New Jersey shoreline with the Morris Canal, railroad tracks leading to the Hudson, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Caven Point Pier and Lower Manhattan. 1965.

How it looks today.

Milford and Woodmont...

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Statue of Liberty

Liberty State Park

New York City

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