Thank you very much for these photos, I think they're terrific!
My first and only visit to Harrison, NJ was back in 1988, when I was 18. I went to visit my cousin, who was getting married in Chatham, NJ, but she lived in an apartment in Harrison (she now lives with her husband of over 22 years in Piscataway, NJ). Her apartment building looked very similar to this one:
It was right on the corner, too. Anyway, it was my very first trip to the east coast, and having grown up and lived in southern California, Harrison was sooo not like SoCal and I loved it. To me it was like a movie set, something I'd only seen in movies/TV; it had that total east coast blue-collar look that I'd never seen in real life, but up to that time I'd romanticized it and was fascinated by it for some reason. I took the PATH train from Harrison to the WTC station and that was my very first introduction to NYC, and I walked from Battery Park all the way up to Midtown.
Looking at these pictures just brought back all those memories of my first east coast trip. Again, it's so different from SoCal, even the way the light falls... of course latitude has something to do with that.
Anyway, thanks for allowing me to wax nostalgic.
It's interesting to see that Harrison is developing the way it is. It kind of reminds me of the situation in the San Francisco Bay Area with the city of Emeryville; that town was once a very industrial place but over the past decade and a half or so, it's evolved into an area with lots more new multi-story housing and commercial areas.
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