Jersey City Snapshots
by Anthony Buccino
Jersey City Snapshots
Daily photo walk views of the changing skyline and cross river scenes of Jersey City and NYC
Anthony Buccino worked in Jersey City, New Jersey, from 1999 to 2009, and often took daily photo walk views of the changing skyline and cross river scenes of Jersey City and NYC. Buccino watched the development along the new light rail, along the Hudson River and saw new buildings spring up near and far.
Buccino, the writer who worked and walked these streets for nearly ten years, leaves words behind and speaks through the camera lens.
His base and work location, Harborside Financial Center, is located due west of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Jersey City Snapshots has seventeen photos of WTC and memorials.
Over all the collection includes more than 200 color street and landscape photos of Jersey City, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.
This collection brings you up close to New Jersey's second-largest city, its building boom and its broken ground. We see the commonplace wildlife, the glimmering structures and the grandeur of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the memorials erected in Jersey City. Jersey City Snapshots is a small cross section of the thousands of photos he shot during his walks.
This collection is ideal for fans of Jersey City, and folks who've always wanted to visit. In the time since these photos were shot and later published, many of the buildings seen under construction have long been completed and newer buildings erected in their shadow. Perhaps 2025 is time for volume two.
Jersey City Snapshots is ideal for fans of Jersey City, and folks who've always wanted to visit.
CONTENTS
Shoreline The couple kissing forever at the Exchange Place PATH station, the mannequin in the apartment window and the skyline sans the WTC are all seen from the Jersey shore of the Hudson River. The Colgate clock is symbolic of the areas industrial background.
City Streets One of our favorite photography modes is street photography. Walking the backways of JC certainly provides great opportunity. In this chapter you can see the transition from vacant pier to Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson. Also of note is the Morris Canal memorial to the many immigrants who passed through from Ellis Island.
Reflections With skyscrapers full of windows, its inevitable to miss out on reflections.
Riverview From the Harborside top floor and riverside, NYC sites are in view, including the Empire State Building and the Circle Line tour boats.
Powerhouse While this historic building was in disarray in the decade he worked across the parking lot, plans were afoot to create a Powerhouse Arts District.
River Traffic While JC is not on the scheduled stops for the Staten Island Ferry, the ship made occasional passes upriver. Meanwhile others took advantage of NY Waterway ferries, yachts, or Circle Line tours. Along the river was a great way to forget office concerns for a while.
Wildlife Pigeons, geese, squirrels, and seagulls are survivors in a harsh en
The Majestic The once great historic Majestic Theatre and landmark has been converted to condominiums in the area of city hall.
Grundy Park The J. Owen Grundy Park was in derelict condition for years until it was rehabilitated in 2008.
Trump Tower Where Buccino parked his car for a year at about $200/month, up went the first of two planned skyscraper in Trump Plaza. People were moving in when Buccino left JC.
World Trade Center Buccino never conceived his casual film photos of the Twin Towers would become historic, as are the early photos of 911 memorials.
QUESTIONS For Further Thought
Who is Jack Kerouac? And why is he on the tourism ad for neighboring state Pennsylvania?
Who was the land developer at Pavonia/Newport and why is the LeFrak faux lighthouse named for him?
Why is the Hudson River tidal?
What does toothpaste have to do with the revitalization of this Jersey City shoreline?
What was Paulus Hook?
Who created the Longshoreman sculpture?
Who was Susan Kirk?
Why did the ironworkers at the Hyatt construction leave their jobs to cross the river?
Why is the Flamingo Restaurant & Bar world famous in Jersey City?
How far is the Statue of Liberty from Exchange Place/Harborside?
Would you take a sailboat ride on the Hudson River?
Which two major bridges can you see from the end of the Apartments pier?
What is the Katyn 1940 memorial?
Who was J. Owen Grundy?
Order Your Copy: Jersey City Snapshots
© 2012 Anthony Buccino
Full color on white paper; 128 pages; 200+ photos
ISBN-13: 978-1973706120
ISBN-10: 1973706121
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