| A friend of mine in Jersey City sent the tour link around to people who are more knowledgeable about area politics than I am. One neighborhood activist wrote him back to say that the delapidated bldg in the first photo is part of the Liberty Harbor North Development, and will be torn down within the year. She says eventually that whole area will be "new townhouses, hi-rise bldgs etc." The footbridge is going to be "repaired" as part of some state parking/road extension project. Repaired or made to look nice? I know I described it as "rickety," but it works perfectly fine now as a bridge.
If it's actually on the verge of collapse, or does collapse, then there will be a lot of pissed off people who use it every week to get to the park (to say nothing of lawsuits if anyone's injured). And of course the developers should pay to fix it (that's what the activist pushed for). But if it's not on the verge of collapse why spruce it up? So more nice people can move to the neighborhood?
I'm really sorry to hear about the townhouses. The spread of cookie cutter, upper middle class high rises (and accompanying Starbucks) throughout the New York area is another kind of entropy. Like a disease where tissues calcify and harden, squeezing the life out of neighborhoods. Now I'm really glad I took these photos, to document the area before it started to look like everyplace else.
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If it's actually on the verge of collapse, or does collapse, then there will be a lot of pissed off people who use it every week to get to the park (to say nothing of lawsuits if anyone's injured). And of course the developers should pay to fix it (that's what the activist pushed for). But if it's not on the verge of collapse why spruce it up? So more nice people can move to the neighborhood?
I'm really sorry to hear about the townhouses. The spread of cookie cutter, upper middle class high rises (and accompanying Starbucks) throughout the New York area is another kind of entropy. Like a disease where tissues calcify and harden, squeezing the life out of neighborhoods. Now I'm really glad I took these photos, to document the area before it started to look like everyplace else.
- tom moody 1-03-2003 9:07 pm