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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.Lane For U!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. 1883Daily 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. 1883Lower 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 2012Jersey City

Caritas Academy on Kennedy Boulevard, Closing

What will become of the building after it closes down come June 2008?

UPDATE (04/21/2008) : A student made a video campaign to save the school.
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March 31, 2008
The scaffoldings are hard to ignore whenever I drive by this building along Kennedy Boulevard, which was the former site of Academy of St. Aloysius. So I wondered, [...]

Pasha Restaurant and Grill

Do you know what happened to this Moroccan/Halal restaurant on Bergen Avenue? It’s been closed for months now, but there are no notices on the front and the lunch specials banner is still hanging. I asked the owner of the nearest store (an Egyptian store) couple of doors to the left of Pasha, and he [...]

Greenville Hospital Is Closing

Greenville Hospital. Photo Credit: Dan Beards. Original Photo here.

Another post that should have been from yesterday. The community hospital will be shut down after more than 100 years of service.
On a personal note, I’ve only been inside this small hospital once, when we took a family friend there after he collapsed during our basketball [...]

Cingular Wireless JSQ Branch – Closed

I walked by and noticed that the steel bars were down, and there was a sign stickied on the store window that says “Store For Rent”. It only means one thing: CINGULAR Journal Square Branch is now closed.

Which Jersey City business establishment do you think will rent this spot? We have local sneakers store [...]

KFC @ Journal Square Plaza Has Been Abandoned For Years

This is a recycled photo from my February post.

I have been wanting to post this for a looooong time because I fully know that this Kentucky Fried Chicken in JSQ Plaza has been closed for years now. However, its business neighbors like McDonald’s and Hallmark remained opened (not anymore). No other Jersey City businesses replaced [...]