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Behind the Barbed Wire Mansion of a Fallen City’s Millionaire Row

The once ornate staircase that leads to the crumbling mansion, is cracked and falling apart. The old, sculpted gardens have been over run with weeds, surrounded by fences of razor sharp barbed wire. Its once grand spires and turrets overlook a landscape of forbidding housing projects and the desolate lots of one of America’s most…
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A Deserted Utopian Village in a New Jersey Forest

If you were to look at Google Maps and search for the Watchung Reservation in New Jersey, you will discover something quite peculiar; the map will show a forest, marked with a lake, nature trails and a brook. But move in closer and you will find something on the map to capture the imagination; it…

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Ghosts of the Abandoned NY Black Yankees Stadium

The seats were probably never that comfortable; there were no backs to them for one thing. But the benches that looked down upon the playing fields of the old Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey, were set in a beautiful Art Deco sporting arena, designed to look like a classical Coliseum with a capacity for up…

Ghost Hotels of Trump’s Atlantic City Empire

Atlantic City has always loomed large in popular culture– its street names can be found on the Monopoly board and during the early part of the 20th century it was one of America’s most popular pleasure palaces. Archival photographs show the famous Boardwalk crammed with holiday makers resplendent in fetching straw boaters, elegant cotton dresses…

So Today I Learned Napoleon’s Penis is in New Jersey

The garden state; where gas prices are cheaper and boardwalks are longer, and also where Napoleon Bonaparte’s penis is being held. Quick history recap: Napoleon was exiled to the British island of St. Helena after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. It was on this island that he was poisoned with arsenic by his own…

These 1950s Jersey Shore Motels Sure Do Look Lonely in the Off Season

It never really occurred to me to visit the Jersey Shore, not until I saw it in the dead of winter, through the lens of American photographer Tyler Haughey. His serene series Ebb Tide makes me want to check into a room at one of the lonely mid-century motels, stay awhile in limbo, maybe write a short…
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