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General Category => Hackensack History => Topic started by: Editor on January 03, 2008, 04:41:54 PM
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From ebay here (http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-PHOTOGRAPH-STATE-STREET-HACKENSACK-NEW-JERSEY_W0QQitemZ180199155646QQihZ008QQcategoryZ14279QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem).
State Street Looking North. Click the image below to enlarge.
Any guesses on the date?
Thanks to Bob Leafe.
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What a nice quiet little town. No congestion, no urban problems, no industrial and automotive land uses mixing in with the houses, and no homeless congregating on the corners. omg, what did we do to destroy Hackensack ???
My guess is 1910.
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JustWatching, I couldn't help but notice you sound a lot like someone else that used to post here.
We didn't destroy Hackensack. It's not destroyed, -it's just modernized. We've seen some nice restoration/preservation around town but I'd always like to see more.
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Not all "progress" is progress. Especially when Quality of Life is reduced to the point that people flee a neighborhood. State Street was abandoned by the residential community. Around 1970, Temple Beth-El and the Methodist Church, both left State Street and both moved to the same stretch of Summit Ave. That's more evidence that State Street was abandoned. Historic houses of architectural quality were bulldozed into oblivion, and replaced with industry and tacky little retail stores like C-Town. And let's not forget the loss of the Opera House, located in a large Armory building previously at State and Mercer.
Over the course of decades, State Street slowly became dominated by SOCIAL SERVICES. This is even further to the detriment of the Quality of Life and the residential community.
Look what's up and down State Street. You have Faith's Foundation just south of Warren Street, the Salvation Army, the 2 homeless facilities next to Christ Church, Christ Church also hosts Peter's Place (which is the most objectionable of all the shelters), and lets not forget the liquor store at State and Clay where all the bums and homeless can buy liquor. Further north, at the corner of State and Passaic is an apartment building converted into a 5-story homeless shelter for families, and there is some other kind of social service facility in the vicinity of State, Ward, and Main Street. The social service people wanted to create a "safety net". That safety net exists to the detriment of economic development and quality of life.
And right off of State Street, I think there is still a plan to convert the Social Security Building into another giant homeless shelter.
State Street is only now attempting to come back, in the form of redevelopment, including multi-unit buildings and offices. Buildings that actually pay taxes, and don't burden taxpayers by stretching the resources of our police and social services. Now that is what I call "progress and modernization". Thankfully, our city administration wants to redevelop State Street. They have zoned it appropriately, and applications to build are always approved.
Three cheers for Lynn Jantos, for her little development across from Christ Church !!! She converted a tacky little one-story retail building into something that would fit right into downtown Tenafly or Ridgewood, without a second thought.
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actually... State St. south of the tracks has always had more business than residential. the only houses from Atlantic St to the tracks were in the block between Lawrence and Atlantic and the the building that currently houses C town has been a food market since the 1930's. the cleaners next door has been a cleaners since the 1940's. The medical imaging building across the street has been there since the 1940's as well. it used to be an A&P. going south from Atlantic to Essex the east side of the street had houses only from Bergen St. to Morris St. and then 2 houses between Morris St. and Essex St. the rest was industrial/commerical. 86 State st was a typewriter shop since the 40's with a house behind it. there was 1 house to the north of it. south of it was a large fabric maker that burned down around 1970.
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Anyone remember the Diner on the West side of State St between Trinity Pl and Lawrence in the early 1960's??
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Thanks irons35 for the clarifications.
Looks like the change from residential to mix-use on State Street south of the railroad happened sometimes before WWII, and sometime after the photo provided by Bob Leafe. It's always good to have more accurate information.
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I believe that picture is taken from just south of Banta Place looking North. it appears as though the Alpha building is in the pic and the steeple of the church at State and Berry is there too. somewhere I have a pic of the post office property before the PO was built.