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General Category => Hackensack Discussion => Topic started by: just watching on December 08, 2013, 11:14:24 AM
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Today I downloaded a staggering amount of information to the INFORMATION RESOURCES section of www.hackensacknow.com.
I filled it with Historic Maps, databases, access to aerial photos, etc. My favorites are the 1839 and 1891 detailed zoomable maps of the Hackensack area, as well as the 1913 Browley collection. You can even research on NJ's "transparency" website the ownership and property value information of any property. I guess that's legal and public information, it's a state website.
Answers can now be found to all the discussions we've ever had, or may have in the future, about old photos and maps and places in Hackensack. Someone emailed me one of the maps, and it just prompted me to research. By the way, most of this information I found on the online version of the Ridgewood Public Library.
This Information Resources page is readily accessible from the www.hackensack.org home page, or just click here
http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/board,11.0.html?PHPSESSID=cbc81f35706676eab939e4e7e79dd9ac (http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/board,11.0.html?PHPSESSID=cbc81f35706676eab939e4e7e79dd9ac)
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Lotsa interesting stuff there, JW.
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I wasn't sure where to put them. There's also a Historic resource section on the history page. THe editor can move it all there if he thinks it's better there.
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Very nice.
Try this: Go here: http://www.historicaerials.com. Select the 1931 map and hit "compare". Then, hit the 2008 map, and slide across the screen to "erase" time. All the apartments on Prospect disappear. You can also see the river change shape over time. I'll be playing with this all night.
Thanks again JW.
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