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Lincoln Park West [Jersey City] is an area badly in need of tidying up, said Fred Mumford, a spokesman for the DEP. Mumford explained that the wetlands on the edge of the park were used for decades as a dumping site for solid, liquid and hazardous waste. Invasive plants ran rampant in the wetlands, smothering natural growth and the water, he said.

In addition, the wildlife and plants in the 31-acre marsh have been contaminated by several oil spills in Newark Bay, such as the Exxon Bayway spill in the Kill Van Kull in 1990, which released 567,000 gallons of oil into Newark Bay and into the marshes.

Some $500,000 in remediation money from that and other polluters that went into the New Jersey Responsible Polluters fund provided the initial funding to clean up the wetlands.

While the Lincoln Park clean-up is still in its early stages - design drafts have just been drawn and Jersey City will seek bids for a contractor early next year - the plans are ambitious.

"We will be flushing tidal water into the creek system and building new tidal channels," said Carl Alderman of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is assisting with the clean-up. "We will be rebuilding a wetlands site that had previously been used as a landfill . removing landfill debris, planting salt grass."

Hudson County also has plans to revitalize the PJB landfill at the edge of Lincoln Park.

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asymptote (click to launch pop-up - like thats a good thing?)


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Is the LMDC Getting the Boot?

The NY Times article regarding Tom Bernstein’s resignation seems to suggest that something may be in the works regarding the LMDC’s role in decision making for the memorial quadrant.
\\via TBTM
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calling it what it isnt :

The Center would have addressed slavery and other human rights issues not directly related to the craven attacks on the World Trade Center. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov had a word for the kind of political correctness behind the center: poshlost, a Russian term meaning fashionable, Philistine, clichéd, bogus nonsense. The instance he gave in the late 1940s, in which Philistinism tumbled over the edge into evil, was: “We all share in Germany’s guilt.” The subtext at the Center was: “We all share in radical Islam’s guilt. They killed many Americans, but we had slaves; there was genocide in Western Europe; whose hands are that clean, anyway?”

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75 years in the ghost busters building on cpw

via nym real estate section


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schnabel towers


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XXXL


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two young golden rain trees after about eleven months in JC soil


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anyone know anything about the flypen?


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She agreed and tugged at her son to come inside, when the reporters hollered at her to wait. She held up her hands. "Please don't take pictures. I don't look decent." They aimed the lens at her. She crossed her arms over herself. "Please."

The cameras clicked and clicked. She stopped asking and pressed her mouth into a grim line. They would not give her the dignity she asked for because degradation sells papers. The most valuable thing she had was her tragedy.

Would those photos haunt her? Would she be reminded of her helplessness? Before coming to New Orleans I was surrounded by images of myself that scared me. During the summer my own reflection scared me. I saw a man whose ex-girlfriend would not take his calls, whose family was broken by pride and silence, whose mother was dying from overwork while he wrote poetry. I thought the time and money and sweat I gave to the poor would return an image of me as a decent man. It would be my reward. Instead I saw how small a part of their burden I could carry.

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It is in fact Warhol who drew me to Pittsburgh. I was lured here by a Web site launched in May by the Andy Warhol Museum. The site (www.warhol.org/tc21) is itself a form of cultural time travel; it makes the contents of one of Warhol's Time Capsules accessible to Internet users. Largely unknown until the artist's death in 1987, the Time Capsules were the 612 cardboard boxes that he filled with the stuff that he accumulated--the by-products of art, life, and fame. Warhol used to keep a box by his desk and toss things in: correspondence, receipts, newspaper clippings, photographs, and gifts. Some of the things were so minor that anyone else would have simply thrown them away. One capsule, archivist Matthew Wrbican tells me, contained hunks of insect-infested pizza dough. Why? No one knows. Some things were so significant--letters from Mick Jagger, a paint palette used by Salvador Dalí--that anyone else would have put them carefully away, but Warhol dropped his overflow in cardboard boxes that were each taped shut, dated, and placed in storage by an assistant.

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proud mary (the recording contract from hell)

"You know, maybe it happens in 'Cinderella,' but it doesn't in real life, where those people buy a company and then turn around and give it away," he said, "even though I am the main inventor of the property that generates all that wealth. I'm the guy that wrote and sang all those songs, and arranged and produced the records. So sometimes there's a lot of irony within my being. It's like, 'Gee, everybody's all excited about something that basically came out of one guy - me!' "

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