These photos are just a tiny segment of views which can show how we've simply put away the past. If you've read 'American Pastoral' by Philip Roth, this is the very area wherein the father-daughter rapprochment takes place at the climax of that book's story. It was once ALL part of a vibrant industrial area which hugged the railroad trestle (of stone and brick) and which delineated the area - it was called 'Ironbound' because it was ringed on three sides by railroads. New Jersey Railroad Avenue was the name of this street - now the area has been destroyed; razed and rebuilt with tacky two-family duplex government-subsidized housing. It's a major travesty of ANYTHING good; housing second-class people in government-built second-class housing subsidized by taxpayers' dollars. No heritage, no awareness of the past, NOTHING but the putrid glut of the present and all its lousy taste in housing, possessions and people.
posted by gary j. introne @ 5:03 PM
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