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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Songs mentioning "Hackensack" and other local towns
« on: April 19, 2018, 07:30:00 PM »
Multiple New Jersey town names in a song goes all the way back to Dave Van Ronk in 1985?

Try 1959 and Tommy Facenda, who crammed a lot of New Jersey towns/schools in one of 30 local versions all over the country of a hit called "High School USA". The New York version was the hit around here (New York stations............what do you expect?), but here's the Jersey version that I'll bet ol' Homer remembers:




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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / MIDPOINT: a 360º+ photo stitch from the pit of the 395 Main St project
« on: April 19, 2018, 02:10:03 PM »
Since the last of the bricks and concrete chunks was carted away yesterday and they started adding............something (electrical conduits?).............to the Main St wall today, I'm guessing that the halfway point of this tear-down-build-up project has passed.

I didn't know that when I visited the site yesterday and stood in the middle of the pit and took 15 to-be-stitched-together photos while turning in a circular manner, but today I consider my timing to be fortunate: this photo marks the end of the demolition (and I'm half-done). It starts and ends facing Ward St and the glitches are minimal.

Click to enlarge, scroll all the way to the left to begin and then scroll slowly all the way to the right to see it as I did while shooting.



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Hackensack Discussion / Re: A guardrail does its job at the 395 Main project
« on: April 18, 2018, 11:25:10 AM »
I took this shot a week before the accident. It includes the circled guardrail and the car's possible landing area, had there been no guardrail.


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Hackensack Discussion / A guardrail does its job at the 395 Main project
« on: April 17, 2018, 03:15:01 PM »
Sometime after midnight early last Saturday morning, I heard something that sounded like a crash, but couldn't see anything. A little later, I saw lots of emergency lights reflecting off buildings in the vicinity of Main and Ward, but couldn't see any vehicles because the building on the SW corner of State and Ward blocked the view.

I went out on my roof to the northernmost edge and could see:

1. Two police vehicles, a fire engine, an ambulance and some dark car that was partially-obscured by the ambulance.

2. Once the ambulance left, a police car replaced it, but I could see the damaged front end of the car.

3. As a tow truck pulled the car onto its flatbed, the heavily-indented guardrail came into view.

4. After a quick cleanup, everyone left and I did a long exposure at 2am and made it a black-and-white.

5. Later that morning, I went to the scene for a closeup of the guardrail that saved the 395 Main hole in the ground.


I’m guessing the driver was another resident who’s even more unhappy than me about having his/her cherished view of something taken away soon by this project.

What a protest! I’m glad I didn’t think of it.


Click to enlarge.



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Hackensack Discussion / My Flighty Sister
« on: April 14, 2018, 12:50:43 AM »
Make that "iFlighty".

This was NOT taken in the new Paramus iFlight facility. The story's with the video.





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Hackensack Discussion / We're #62 in Bergen County!
« on: April 10, 2018, 12:55:00 PM »
And Teaneck is #61. There are a lot of comments to read on various subjects:

https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/safest-places/c/bergen-county-nj/



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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: April 09, 2018, 03:15:38 PM »
Quote from: BLeafe on March 18, 2018, 01:30:47 PM
...content was replaced by articles from the Asbury Park Press, USA Today and other non-local sources...


As I mentioned above last month, I'm aware of the non-local nature of our supposedly local paper, but no matter where the contributors are from, grammar, spelling and sentence structure are constants (well, they were until this bunch came along). The READABILITY of the paper is affected every time your eyes hit one of these visual road bumps and the flow is interrupted. It's really annoying.

I don't know how an inanimate object can acquire human qualities, but this paper has managed to appear to be quite amateurly ignorant.

Just today, I plucked these two little gems from the same page in the sports section:



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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Kazimir's Pets closing
« on: April 09, 2018, 11:29:11 AM »
In today's Record:

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/hackensack/2018/04/08/kazimirs-pet-shop-hackensack-closing-its-doors-after-68-years/417026002/



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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: April 08, 2018, 04:25:31 PM »
More buffoonery (click to enlarge):



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Hackensack Discussion / Re: My favorite paper is not having a good day
« on: April 08, 2018, 02:55:02 PM »
Quote from: Homer Jones on March 20, 2018, 01:56:34 PM
Sad thing is that “It ain’t gonna get any better.”

Amen, brother! Here's more proof ((click to enlarge):


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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Hackensack River moonshine
« on: April 06, 2018, 05:15:00 PM »
It isn't often that a shot of the moon lighting up the river presents itself (and the stupid 2 year-old lights from the Noches de Colombia rear parking lot really screw things up), so when I saw this, I realized that this just may be the last time I'll ever get this shot once the 395 Main St project rises.

I wasn't successful getting the restaurant to do the right thing and aim their PSE&G-installed lights properly, so I'll gladly pass that battle on to the richer, east-facing new 395 dwellers, who will really hate how obnoxiously close and bright these lights will be in their living rooms.

Maybe if they scream loud enough, this town will wake up and create a light-control ordinance and get PSE&G to stop installing 2nd-floor lighting that illuminates the heavens - something they always claim is "in compliance"! (with what?)



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Online Auctions/Local Images (Moderated by BLeafe) / Re: Chrome Logo of......SOMETHING in Hackensack
« on: April 05, 2018, 03:30:31 PM »
Almost 8 1/2 years later, the mystery may be solved, but the amateur look and lower case still throw me off.

Might this dealership be a predecessor of Hackensack Ford?


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Hackensack Discussion / Re: Hackensack projects report on News12 NJ?
« on: April 04, 2018, 07:28:22 PM »
But you have the internet and News12 has a site and.........oh, look what I just found there:

http://newjersey.news12.com/story/37882099/hackensack-seeks-to-attract-new-businesses-residents

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Hackensack Discussion / Hackensack projects report on News12 NJ?
« on: April 04, 2018, 04:30:03 PM »
Through this morning's fog, I could see someone with a video camera on a tripod on the State St side of the 395 Main project (first pic). He later loaded his equipment into a News12 truck (second pic).

Thinking that maybe someone found the body that was stuffed into the piano, I emailed the man in charge (also in first pic) to ask what was newsworthy enough for News12 to be filming through the fog.

He said that they were doing a story on the redevelopment of Hackensack and were going to film at all projects going on in town.

Look for it.


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Photography...........the way I see it (Moderated by BLeafe) / Yesterday morning's little snowburst
« on: April 03, 2018, 01:41:30 PM »
It really wasn't that much of a big deal and melted away quickly, but it did manage to get both the Yankees' home opener and the Mets game postponed.

As it looks right now, today's Yankees' rescheduled home opener may get washed away by rain.


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