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not 100% sure, but I believe it was a library branch/Pavonia Branch. torn down to expand the hospital (nursing school?). there was a city commitment to replace the branch, was in a trailer for a while and then the space on 8th street in the Wells Fargo building was acquired and Pavonia Branch re-opened. unless the Pavonia Branch was the building on the corner of Pavonia.
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Vigilante, I'm also still wondering about the building with the columns on the SE corner of Hamilton Park, where St. Francis Hospital was built later. I've been looking in other historic photos but haven't found an answer yet.
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LOL, I remember that!
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The buildings with the clotheslines are now the 264-286 9th st. condo. The tenth street side buildings are now the gated parking lot. The building across from the Hamilton Park Inn (Ale house) is 263 Tenth street,
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I'd bet all streets were 2-way back then
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Homemade skate-ramp circa 2009.
Posted on: 2011/9/3 5:42
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Posted on: 2011/9/3 5:37
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Shorpy is an awesome site. They've got tons of pictures of the Shore and Jersey City and all over the place. Amazing resource for old photos.
Posted on: 2011/9/3 4:25
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Awesome picture. Right click, save as. . .
Yeah, that's Coles Street all right.
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I have no clue.
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but the cars on the street to the left are faced North, and Coles currently heads South. when did it make the switch?
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The photo is:
10th street between Cole and Monmouth. The block on the left side of the picture is Cole street between 10th and 9th. What replaced the buildings on 10th street are townhouses "300 block on 10th" Quote:
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I believe to the left is Jersey Avenue and if you go to the next street that would be Newark Ave - make a right and that church is the church you see when you exit the Bank of America Bldg. from their parking lot and the church would be on First St. right in front of you. I think (???)
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That's it! The Bing bird's eye photo very clearly shows the distinctive roof line of the church on Pavonia. Thanks!
 Now I'm wondering what happened to the apartment building on the southeast corner of Ninth and Coles. Here is a current view. The vertical raised brick stripes on the north face are the same, so it must be the same building -- but 3 stories now instead of 5. Maybe there was a bad fire at some point and they capped the surviving structure at 3 stories rather than rebuild. And the shopfront that I mistook for Wonder Bagel is just gone. It's now a side yard for a house at Coles and Tenth. Looking at the photo of the train wreck, maybe those double steeples are the church on First between Jersey and Erie.
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Apparently they cut off the top two floors of the building on the SE corner of 9th and Coles. I wonder if there was a fire or something?
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I saw this photo years ago and have been trying to figure it out.
At First I thought that it looked like Railroad Avenue which is now Christopher Columbus Drive. However, if you look at the top right of the photo, you see the back of a church that looks a lot like the church on Pavonia Avenue between Coles and Monmouth. This photo seems to have been taken from the roof of the warehouse that house Moishe's Moving and Storage. The photo is taken from the height of that warehouse. Also, the back of the structures to the left of the church are very much like the homes along Pavonia to Coles. My best guess is Ninth Street. Out of the photo is Hamilton Park which should be a few blocks left. Also, had the photo captured the street in front of the Church, we may have seen the old Wells Fargo facility and the original Ferris High School which is now MacNair. Anyone else? Pretty interesting.
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I agree. To the left you can see what later became the Coles Street Cafe. The big building at the right top looks like the back of the former Baptist Church on Pavonia between Coles and Monmouth. The area near where the mall is now was once a RR Terminus at the waterfront so the direction makes total sense.
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I think it's also overlooking the 10th st embankment, Coles and 10th, looking south, shot from the giant warehouse where Moishe's is today.
http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=qsn8 ... 07302%2C%20NJ&form=LMLTCC
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 Can anybody figure out which blocks appear in this photo? It's supposedly Jersey City. Here's the link. At first I was thinking the picture is over Railroad Avenue (now Christopher Columbus), looking south between Jersey and Varick, and the shop window in the lower left is where Wonder Bagel is located now. But the buildings on the left side don't correspond to what we see on Jersey Avenue now. There's a 5-story apartment building one block back, and the building with Esperanto Pizza at Jersey and Wayne is only 4 stories. And there's no library. So my first thought must be wrong. But that 5-story apartment building looks familiar. There's also the back of what looks like a church in the upper right. I've tried matching up the buildings from Columbus, from the Sixth Street Embankment, and the Tenth Street Embankment, and I'm stuck. Can any of you figure it out? The website this came from has some other fun historic pictures. Here is a picture of Hamilton Park from the Tenth Street Erie embankment, with the NYC skyline in the background. Click on "View full size" to get all the detail. Also, here is a photo of a train wreck that I think is supposed to be at Columbus and Brunswick, although I haven't figured out that double steeple in the background. Enjoy!
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