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I believe they are all congregating on the waterfront of all those towns. That was nice of them. Take a trip down the waterfront (river road) from North Bergen through Hoboken, and down the Jersey City Waterfront...you'll be happy to know they are all there..safe and sound.
Last edited by Global Friend; 09-27-2007 at 04:53 PM..
I believe they are all congregating on the waterfront of all those towns...and have left the rest to teh colored folks. That was nice of them. Take a trip down the waterfront (river road) from North Bergen through Hoboken, and down the Jersey City Waterfront...you'll be happy to know they are all there..safe and sound
Lol. Yup, it is a thriving community on the waterfront. Venturing "up on the hill" is a little unusual.
I would say most of them went to the suburbs...you seem to be pre-occupied with this phenomenon. It's quite simple really. The post war boom coupled with the Eisenhower Highway System allowed people to move further away from where they worked. The first wave of middle class folks to leave the cities left in a wave from 1949-1960. In New Jersey especially, but in most other urban areas, the race riots of the mid to late 1960s sealed the fate of many cities by greatly accelerating "white flight." Now in the face of sprawl, pollution, traffic, and other suburban maladies, the middle class and wealthy are beginning to return to places like the waterfront in Jersey City, Camden, and Hoboken, the Ironbound in Newark, and Mill Hill/South Trenton. Our cities will be very different places in 20 years.
As a matter of fact, I was in Baltimore over the weekend and in the 10 years since I've been there it's amazing what has happened around the Inner Harbor. Neighborhoods that were dangerous in broad daylight just blocks away from the Inner Harbor itself 10 years ago are now vibrant places with restaurants, stores, and loft apartments. The amount of construction going on in the area is astounding, and the transportation system is growing by leaps and bounds as well. We could use some of their planners in New Jersey!
I believe they are all congregating on the waterfront of all those towns...and have left the rest to teh colored folks. That was nice of them. Take a trip down the waterfront (river road) from North Bergen through Hoboken, and down the Jersey City Waterfront...you'll be happy to know they are all there..safe and sound.
Well yeah hoboken, bayonne, kearny, secaucus still have whites, but what about Weehawken, and west NY. They have a beautiful view of the NYC skyline from their cliff. North Bergen has no shore line
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