...go back across the River and try to replicate the early photos from approximately the same location they were taken, only this time with the 2016 backgrounds. That should be interesting.
Try "virtually impossible".
River Rd in Bogota was closed south of Ft Lee Rd and a Teaneck(!) PD car was stationed there.
I explained to the cop why I was there and what I would need to do: try to approach the necessary spot from River Rd or - as a last resort - from the forbidden tracks. I showed him the before pic and the Google overhead pic. He was really cool about it, but had to check in with the Bogota PD first. I got the all-clear.
There was an impenetrable jungle between River Rd and the tracks, so it was last resort time.
There was a semi-jungle between the tracks and the river, no way to get to the riverbank and very few views of even
part of what I needed to get in one shot. None of those few views were from the angle I needed, as you can tell from the pix. Some of them look like they needed to be wider shots, but what I cropped out were solid trees and foliage on the Bogota side. For the most part, I had windows and not the vistas I needed (what I
really needed was a 30'-high cherry-picker railcar).
There were also obstructions on the Hackensack side, like trees and a half-century of construction.
So if you can mentally combine bits of each shot, you might be able to come up with an idea of what's transpired since 1967.
Or we can open up a GoFundMe site and get me that cherry-picker railcar.
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LICK!