Sections

Archives

Jersey City Photos

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

Wittpenn Closings Start Tonight

Anyone using Wittpenn Bridge tonight and tomorrow? Better use the following detour as the bridge that connects Kearny and Jersey City will be closed tonight and tomorrow night, both 10PM – 5AM:
The following local detour routes will be used:

Traffic on Route 7 westbound will take Routes 1&9 to Fish House Road to Route 7.
Route 7 [...]

Potholes in JC!

Just driving along Summit Avenue to Union City, you’ll see numerous potholes you’ll be enamored to name them: there’s “Tiny” by the area of Catlow Movers, there’s “The Big Bad Hole” in front of Pershing Field, and many more.
To the credit of the Jersey City, two of these holes, I noticed, were already [...]