Hello, my avid readers (and those random strangers who may have stumbled upon this site while looking for tips on arranging your own 100 monkey/100 typewriter set-up in your basement). Welcome all! Since I have recently discovered that my digital camera does not encumber me while pedaling about my fair city, I plan to share with you some of the sights and attractions that make Jersey City just about the greatest city around. Sure, it can be rough for a place to be in the shadow of NYC
and to be ridiculed as part of every Jersey joke or slur, but I’ve come to embrace all aspects of the JC: its convenience and frustrating lack thereof, its beauty and rampant ugliness, its history and modern woes. But where else would I live? Brooklyn? Ha … haha … bwahahahahahaha!
First stop on this virtual tour, the crown jewel of Jersey City’s waterfront redevelopment: Liberty State Park (Okay, okay … any golfer would say it’s actually the adjacent country club that deserves such a designation, but that place is private and extremely exclusive, ie. I cannot shoot a round or bike there. Hence, it will never be mentioned again, and boycotted forthwith.) These photos can only provide a small sense of the wide expanse of rolling parkland and harbor vistas adjacent to those iconic New Jersey landmarks: the Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. (See what I did there? You might think those islands are part of New York State or something like that. Well, that misconception has just been corrected. BOO-YAH! Tell your friends—you’ll seem smart. Or just a snarky know-it-all. And if that’s the case, then you’re better off without those friends anyway.) Thus, the best way to experience the park is to visit yourself—preferably on a bike, and never as part of a half-marathon. Now, I’m no J. Moskowitz or M. Crenshaw when it comes to capturing gorgeous snapshots of my travels, so please bear with the results of my photographic endeavors, and (if you can) enjoy them.
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| from the center of the park you can see Manhattan, and ... |
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| ... Ellis Island, and ... |
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| ... the Statue of Liberty. |
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| the Goldman-Sachs building in JC, with the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings in the background |
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| the nature center |
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| my bike and the view |
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| the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge connects Brooklyn (left) and Staten Island (right) |
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| gulls, piers, and the port of Elizabeth, NJ |
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| what lives in the water? |
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| one of my favorites |
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| and another |
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| a river monster?! |
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| Brooklyn Bridge! |
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| Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island |
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| lower Manhattan |
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| Jersey City, new and old |
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| inside the former terminal for the Central Railroad of New Jersey |
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| exterior of the CRRNJ building |
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| farewell Liberty State Park |
I like where this is headed as a potential series. I've been meaning to do a similar exploration of my neighborhood post for awhile. And your pictures are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteWere you lurking in the background of someone's wedding photos in the train station??