From JJ comments:

(Two things I hope the teacher fails him for not knowing JC keeps a close eye and list of abandoned properties it?s not secret. He?s from Bayonne?lol. )

Jersey City Taking Aim at Vacancies
By Heather Haddon
Updated May 6, 2012 10:03 p.m. ET

JERSEY CITY, N.J.?A historic Episcopalian church left to be claimed by squatters; an abandoned house where police discovered a dead body on the front porch; a vacant brownstone overrun with weeds after its overseer was arrested on bank fraud.

As this gritty former manufacturing town tries to reinvent itself, officials have been wrestling with a stubborn phenomenon of urban blight: hundreds of abandoned buildings. About 950 of the roughly 40,000 properties in this waterfront city were classified as abandoned in a recent count, a number that city officials attribute to the housing-market collapse.

"Almost every block in this city has a vacant building on it," said Mark Redfield, assistant director for housing code enforcement in Jersey City. "It's really a horrible thing for society."

WSJ piece?

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/S ... 04577374431116383966.html

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Amazing photos

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Then tell me what the point is, instead of using some cool hashtag. I interpret the purpose of your "The Jersey City Most of you never see" post as a way to educate most of us how dumpy some parts of JC are (BL & Greenville specifically per the pics).

should raze Bergen/Lafayette and eventually LSP will absorb it.

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I think you are missing the point. #lameass

Looks like I'm not missing out on much

http://imgick.nj.com/home/njo-media/p ... /15/-57d3b21a1cb65e1d.jpg

When Dakota Santiago performed a Google search of urban decay in the South Bronx, he received a number of hits. When he did the same for Jersey City, he found next to nothing online.

To shine a light on Jersey City's deteriorating neighborhoods, the 21-year-old photography student at New Jersey City University began photographing these areas as part of a semester-long independent study project this past spring.

"So this is where I found a void in coverage and decided to exploit that void by going out into the streets myself with a camera to bring to light something I felt has been hidden or just simply overlooked," Santiago, a Bayonne resident, wrote in an email.

He chose the neighborhoods of Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville because he thinks those areas are where the most urban decay is located in Jersey City.

"It's the section of the city that suffers the worst of it," he said.

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