Jersey City magazine
EDITOR’S LETTER JCM Industrial Dreamscapes
IT’S HARD TO PUT YOUR FINGER ON IT. What exactly is so seductive about the metal, machines, grillwork, gears, cranes, and containers that are the lifeblood of our industrial past—and pres...
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NEWS
Cutting edge along the water’s edge The Jersey City waterfront is starting to look as skyscraper-heavy as any waterfront not in New York City. Before year’s end, yet another one will go up on t...
Cutting edge along the water’s edge The Jersey City waterfront is starting to look as skyscraper-heavy as any waterfront not in New York City. Before year’s end, yet another one will go up on t...
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THE STUDIO JCMLocal Color
PAINTER GLENN GARVER is not only an artist, he’s an adventurer. Garver ventured from New York to Jersey City before gentrification was even a twinkle in anybody’s eye. A 1984 graduate of ...
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AT HOME JCMCreating Community
An up and coming neighborhood
W hen your city is in flux as ours is, you have the good fortune of watching neighborhoods evolve. Think Paulus Hook before the high rises or Lafayette before the light rail. I’d had my eye...
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INDUSTRIAL ARTISTRYBridge to Somewhere
The peculiar allure of the Pulaski Skyway
A TRELLIS OF SCULPTED STEEL , it straddles the Hackensack and Passaic rivers, reaching desperately across the Meadowlands to make landfall in Jersey City at one end and Newark on the other...
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INDUSTRIAL ARTISTRYShip to Shore
THE STARK BLACK AND WHITE film seems perfectly suited to its subject. A young, tough, and handsome Marlon Brando sits in the back of a car near a seedy pier in Hoboken, famously growl...
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INDUSTRIAL ARTISTRYHe was a Contendah
BACK IN 1954 , Tom Hanley, who now works as a crane operator at Global Marine, was throwing dead pigeons at Marlon Brando. The life of a longshoreman has changed a lot since a 14-year-old Hanl...
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INDUSTRIAL ARTISTRY
When a Factory is Still a Factory
IF YOU’RE LIKE MOST WOMEN , the morning ritual of hooking your bra and tucking away the twins is probably second nature. You don’t think twice about where the fabric comes from, who made t...
When a Factory is Still a Factory
IF YOU’RE LIKE MOST WOMEN , the morning ritual of hooking your bra and tucking away the twins is probably second nature. You don’t think twice about where the fabric comes from, who made t...
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LETTERS JCM
Dana Reigns I am writing to find out where the cover photo of Queen Latifah was taken. I have been a firefighter with the Jersey City Fire Department for 36 years, and I thought I knew all the ...
Dana Reigns I am writing to find out where the cover photo of Queen Latifah was taken. I have been a firefighter with the Jersey City Fire Department for 36 years, and I thought I knew all the ...
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SPORTS CORNER JCMThe Missing Links—Until Now
Big-time professional golfers—and a curious public—will soon get a good look at Liberty National
STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH FAIRWAY at Liberty National Golf Club, a player might forget that this, too, is as New Jersey as the shore villas, swamplands, and smokestacks, the ...
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PEOPLE POWER JCMTugboat Booster
IT’S A BRISK WINTER EVENING . There’s no problem keeping the six-pack cold underneath the thwart of my 12-foot Whitehall. I’m rowing about 300 feet from my boat to the tugboat Pegasus , w...
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BEYOND THE BOOMAN ONGOING SERIES ABOUT THE CHALLENGES JERSEY CITY WILL FACE AS IT MOVES BEYOND THE CONSTRUCTION BOOM
THE TWO JERSEY CITIES THE DISTANCE BETWEEN the light rail station at Pavonia Newport and the one 10 stops away at West Side Avenue is just eight miles. But the psychic di...
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