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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

Digital Bookmobile Coming to Jersey City Main Library

[ October 13, 2009; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Here’s an email from Michele Dupey of Jersey City Public Library, inviting Jersey City residents to the Digital Bookmobile demonstration at the Main Library in Downtown, JC:

“For the first time in NJ, it’s the Jersey City Free Public Library stop of the National Tour of the Digital Bookmobile, by OverDrive.com, to demonstrate how easy it [...]

Brand New JC Free Public Library Bookmobile Starts Monday

Jersey Journal reports that the JC Free Public Library Bookmobile is now back. This time, much better.
The bookmobile can hold up to thousands of various books. The “air-conditioned mobile library, which features a television, DVD player, satellite dish and three computers, cost $222,780 and was paid through proceeds from Library Foundation fund-raisers since 2005, said [...]