jersey city is the rodney dangerfield of the ny metro area.
"Briskly walking from the Path Train to their apartments, each person moved in a constant mode of retreat, tracing the straightest route from one set of walls to the next. The only objects at ease were cars; the cars replace the people. There are no faces, simply headlights and hood ornaments passing through the thoroughfare."
"For all its proximity to New York, Jersey City is not the living and breathing town it could have been. It was built to be a cold cut of suburbia clumsily stacked high and wedged between the golden precipice over the Hudson and the indignant spread of urban poverty lost behind the minds of city planners. This is the curse of the land. It is invisible because it is always there. It is settled, and parceled, and taken for granted, and laid to waste."
it's WINTER... it's 6 degrees out... no one is lingering around on the streets... and that area where our writer was is the business area - and that is pretty empty and quiet because people are working... of course, if it was night, no, not many are working in that area... but that's like over in the financial district in nyc... it gets desolate in the evening
believe me, there are some days where i am disgusted by my city... but there is a community within this 'cold cut of suburbia'...
i didn't grow up here... but it has been my home for the past 6 years.
*sigh*
right now i am too tired to defend JC... all i know is, yeah, it empties out in that area after work... but lunchtime is bustling... and if they went further inland they would find life... and a lot of it.
