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Liberty State Park with midtown Manhattan in the distance
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Welcome to the good old days in Jersey City. Rotting 19th century piers line the Hudson. The Twin Towers lurk in the fog across the Hudson. March 1975
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Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal , Goldman Sachs Tower
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Amber waves of grain, Jersey City style. An abandoned Central Railroad of New Jersey tower guards the weeds and an old forgotten train car. Ellis island, itself also abandoned, at right and the Lower Manhattan skyline looms at left. March 1976.
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More 1970s fun in Manhattan and Jersey City. A late afternoon view of the NYC skyline including the unfinished World Trade Center from the wasteland which used to exist where Morris Canal Park is now. Fall 1972.
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Welcome to Liberty State Park. Enjoy our restaurants, fitness center, free parking, swimming pool and other amenities. Children under 15 must be accompanied by an adult. We hope to make your stay a pleasant experience!
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It just didn't get any better than the old version of the Meadowlands. What to do with an enormous swamp a few miles from Manhattan? Fill it up with numerous garbage dumps and build a lot of factories making all kinds of toxic chemicals. Kearny, NJ. 1976.
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An endless golden field of swampy reeds by sunset light in the New Jersey Meadowlands as seen from my train window. Going home after a spending a day in Manhattan. October 2021.
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Spending a gorgeous day in Liberty State Park and beating the weekend crowd by arriving 47 years too early when the place was still REALLY fascinating! A horizon to horizon landscape of total abandonment. (even Ellis Island). Jersey City. March 1975
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Meanwhile, back to the old version of Jersey City. Here, we're standing near the end of the abandoned Pennsylvania Railroad's 6th Street Embankment looking to the skyline of Lower Manhattan. Once a busy place, by 1977, it was a total no-man's land.
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Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center on the other side of the Hudson River from a landscape of horizon to horizon pier ruins at Exchange Place in Jersey City. So close, yet so far away. June 1975.
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Just another day at the abandoned Erie Railroad Terminal in Pavonia right by the Hudson River. Once an ornate 19th century rail terminal, by 1970 it lay in ruins overtaken by weeds. That's the World Trade Center going up in the background. Jersey City.
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View from Clifton Place to Johnston Ave and its recycling plants. The new World Trade Center, Goldman Sachs building and Lower Manhattan dominate the horizon. Jersey City. May 6, 2012
