7.29.2005

Essex Street Eateries - Walking Distance

Some day I shall actually eat at some of these Jersey City places.

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Upstairs from the Subway is the Spa
That's MY kind of step-saving space allocation.



Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Did you ever have to make up your mind?
The fellow at left came over to tell us we couldn't photograph the building or the restaurant. We said we were photographing the signs. As you can see.



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Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.A swell shot of the Iron Monkey at the Iron Monkey


Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Well after the lunch crowd has dispersed



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Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.This horse gives the monkey a run for its money, no?

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Home for Sale or Rent

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Fabulous Paulus Hook
Historical Jersey City, and right along the sea canal, and a short walk from a great view.






Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Restaurant ... opening some day
Wonder what Captain Al's will be serving?











Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Living on the shady side of the street
Essex Street, near the lightrail station.











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Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Great view from up in the sky


Plenty of new and not-yet-built homes available.

I'm not selling any of these properties, or endorsing them. I merely walked by and appreciated them. And no one, so far, came out and said I couldn't take their pictures.


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7.28.2005

Banner Day in Jersey City

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Banner over Hudson River ... for Island

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.A mean thing to place the tank so close to the river, AND a photo of a tropical island
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One Second Street, Jersey City, N.J.

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Valet parking available while you peruse

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.A stone's throw from the former artists' colony

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Purported night view

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Actual day view, nearby ground level

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Get in on the ground floor across the street
Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Don't stop on the tracks

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Tenant Appreciation Day

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Excited crowds gathering below

I took some pictures of the tent and fun from our 8th floor window.

I went down for an ice cream, turned in my ticket, and got a Good Humor bar. I ate my chocolate eclair ice cream bar in the shade.

It was hot. The hottest day in July. People were milling around on the blacktop for a free ice cream bar. Some folks were shooting hoops. Others were trying to dunk the man in the water. I think it was for charity, but I didn't go in the sun to find out.

I didn't see anyone I know.

None of the pretty girls said Aloha. I didn't take any of their pictures.

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Dunk the man in water! Yup. He got a day's pay to get dunked in cool water on a hot day!


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7.27.2005

Go, Lance!

Congratulations, Lance Armstrong,
on winning your 7th Tour de France.


Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Quick, here he comes!

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Quick, here's the team!

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.Washington, DC

If only we knew how to use the movie features of the camera when Lance & crew rode by us last October in Washington, D.C.

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7.25.2005

Search Me

As someone who uses public transportation as part of a balanced work commute, today I thought I'd leave my digital camera at home in the event I look like the random person who should be inspected.

I do feel nearly naked at work without my digital camera. I have two disposable film cameras in my desk. One camera has a few shots taken (of what, who remembers?) And the other camera is in its plastic see-through pouch.

I shouldn't feel so naked, you know. After all, it's not like I have no camera.

This weekend, in fact, I joined the camera phone club when I replaced my two-year-old wouldn't-hold-a-charge cell phone. In addition to transfering a few phone numbers to my new phone, I had the task of trying to figure out how I kept taking pictures of Zamboni - whether or not I wanted to take his picture.

My daughter pushed a series of buttons and one of the dark Zamboni pictures is my screensaver. Who ever heard of such a thing on a telephone?

For my part, I was able to maneuver around the name and phone fields in the phone book to enter my vital names. I read on Barista Net this morning about cell phone emergency numbers and how to put them where others can find them ICE - in case of emergency. Perhaps when I remember how to update my phone number, I'll try it.

Today, at lunch, I look forward to reading the phone book. Doesn't that sound exciting? Perhaps, if an audience gathers, I shall read aloud ... and soon everyone will want to nap under the Harborside willows.

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Bag It - Bag It Light

One thing about storing the digital camera at home was that it resulted in a lighter back pack, relatively speaking. It being a Monday, the restocking day, there were many supplies to lug along the trek.

For instance, there was the celery, carrots & apple pack. Not to mention the Ice Tea bottle that remains warm in my desk until I add ice. And then there is the donut-bagel alternate: the fresh box of whole grain peanut-butter Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Not to mention, stuffed in one or more of the many zippered pockets, the last three days' newspapers, being the Ledger & my-neighbor-down-the-shore's NY Times. Don't worry, I deboned the Real Estate, ad supplements, and sports sections.

BTW, the new cell phone is not noticeably different from the old one. It does have a little spy lens to it, something James Bond would have had 40 years ago, and my daughter figured out that the antenna extends.

Picture Less Path

The last time I took photographs on the Path, the conductor told me that wasn't allowed. I put the camera away. No sense arguing with a conductor. He's just doing his job. No?

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I checked into my Harborside links and lo and behold, on the Path site, in the rules & regulations it says you can't take pictures on the train or of the rails or the tunnels or anything without a Path personnel escort.

They don't want to know nothing about your blog, or your railroad club, or your newspaper boss named Perry White.

Fortunately, on earlier Path trips, in cars further back from the conductor, I had taken plenty of photos. There are sunrises, and distant buildings rising like Oz in the distance. And a photo or two of the seemingly endless run of tracks stretched out ahead to infinity.

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I think I've gotten some great photos. Artistic photos. In all, I've got more photos of Jersey City than I could use in a new volume of
Jersey City - Images of America.

All those photos still leave me looking for the next one. Each time I walk down the street or along the water, I think to myself, I've seen everything. And then, and then, of course, I see something I have not seen before, right there. Right where it's always been and where I've passed it again and again.

So, officer, that's why I have a camera ;-)

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7.23.2005

West Side Lightrail, Jersey City, N.J.

Much building is happening along the Hudson Bergen Lightrail route in Jersey City. In July we took a ride on the air-conditioned light rail ... and here's some of what we saw.


Windmill-like worker atop lightrail overhead.


Essex Street station light posts are protected against nearby construction.

Garfield Station.

New construction along the route.


Tall building at center is One Second Street, really.

And their condos are for sale. As you can see, it's a short walk to the light rail. What you can't see, is it's a short walk to the ferry, too, and the Path.


This fellow sat in front of us.

Do remember to click on the photos to see large version and detail

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Hoboken Light Rail - Part one

The new Hudson Bergen Lightrail now continues from the Hoboken terminal to the other side of Hoboken at Lincoln Harbor. We recently took a ride and it sure seems that every home has a view of the Empire State Building. This may not be what you think of when you think 'Hoboken'.

Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reservedView from the Hoboken Terminal: Hudson River & Manhattan

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Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reservedAlong the lightrail

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MisterSnitch - Hoboken Favorites

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Hoboken Light Rail - Part Two

More photos from the Hoboken trip.
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HOBOKEN
Here NJ is west of NY
and it's north of NY
further inland
NJ is south of NY
Why, if it were only
even in one place
east of NY
then we'd be
surrounded
instead of completely
over shadowed
by the place they
named twice

from: Hoboken - Gnomeland Security, by Anthony Buccino

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7.17.2005

Cool Hudson

July - that hot hazy humid time in New Jersey - is a great time to remember how cold it gets here some times...
Hudson River, Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.January 2005

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Ice bergs.
(As if there are
some other kind of bergs.)
Frozen muck in ten-ton blocks,
it's a different kind
of gray matter.
Many mini ice bergs
washed down river
from the Tappan Zee
and further up river, too.

One day all the ice flows
were across the river
on the Manhattan side.
Another day
we had our own
share of dirty bergs.

Near the shore,
fowl of the air
foraged in the icy overflow.
If it was a duck,
it was a small duck.
Its webbed feet
were bow-legged.
The fowl splayed
its feet and tried
to tread water.

It turned its head back
to its body and
tucked its beak
under its wing
and snuggled there.
Perhaps it was
trying to shut out
the low-tide river smell.

from: Along the Hudson River - by Anthony Buccino


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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

Definitely a keeper!

As someone who has sat through many, many viewings of Willy Wonka featuring Gene Wilder, I was looking forward to seeing the new take on Charlie & The Chocolate Factory with Johnnie Depp and Tim Burton.

Yeah. I liked it a lot. From the earlier version I missed the fizzy lifting drinks. Here I couldn't understand the words to most of the songs. The screen credits said that the lyrics were by Roald Dahl - so I'm sure they are in the book. I shall ask to borrow my daughter's anniversary copy. Until then, I think I'd like to read the lyrics on the Web site.

(Lyrics to the songs about Mike Teavee and Veruca Salt are available as PDFs on the web site, link above. Many other activities are online - but the site has a ways to go before it is finished because many of the attractions say COMING SOON - as IF they didn't know the movie would be out now?)

I think I'd like to see it again. There's a lot of detail and small stuff I probably missed.


I wasn't too keen on the Oompa Loompa inside joke of it being one guy over & over. I did enjoy the 60s parodies and tributes, however. There was no wall paper to taste the snozzberries. The boat ride was missing the chicken head - and it wasn't quite as scary. I was thinking mostly of what wasn't in the Burton film. But that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. I thought it was a lot of fun and I laughed out loud several times (and sometimes by myself).

The Wonka-vator goes to new heights and it's not the end of this movie. Plus, you see the other children exiting the factory at the end of the day - something lost in the earlier version. Charlie's poverty is really played up here and could make a grown man cry. But it all comes down to his family - something Willie gave up years ago.

I think I'd like to see it again. There's a lot of detail and small stuff I probably missed.

We saw Violet's mom's Twirling trophy on the wall - a cross of batons. And her mother said, Keep your eyes on the prize. I think I've heard that before somewhere. Have you?

I was much impressed with Depp's take on Willy. And the little kid breaks your heart without even trying. I also liked the way Charlie saw all Willy's dad's clippings and that that part was never spoken - except in the hug. The film operates on many levels and works well. Some parts will be too intense for small children.

Definitely a keeper!

I look forward to seeing it again & again & again.

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Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reservedIt's not just about selling sweet tasting candy, you know.



Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Web Site

Other Things in the City

And, don't forget the other things that make the city a city.
Iron Monkey; Copyright © 2005 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.
Iron Monkey Restaurant, 97 Greene Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 (never been inside or on the roof!)

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Sticker on a utility pole somewhere in Jersey City.

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