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Update on the New Jersey Wasteland Tour. (Take the tour--). The house in Slide 1 is gone--demolished. The pedestrian bridge over Morris Canal (Slide 4) has new planking but otherwise looks the same. The "cul-de-sac" road that cuts like a rusty knife through what used to be a pleasant grassy area (Slide 5) is still under construction; hardly any work has been done on it. Mount Liberty (Slide 8) has been flattened and used as fill dirt for a new section of Liberty State Park called the Grove of Remembrance--presumably for 9/11 victims; there's no marker, only a few flimsy signs telling you not to walk on the grass. The Grove has a beautiful raw marbly boulder plopped down inside one of the circular walkways, though--I ogled it for a long time. The state moved the "hazardous materials" fence (Slide 7) further south to provide land for the Grove: I guess the acreage isn't hazardous anymore! Lastly, the exterior of the new Goldman Sachs tower (visible in Slide 11) is finished; everything else looks as it did in January.