@dohc73 I KNOW. That's why we ended up in Colonia, NJ,which is nice but my parents never thought they would leave East Orange. They (the parkway folks) came in and took our neighborhood which the toll booth is now where our livingroom used to be. Hawthorne Ave was never the same.
Passenger rail - a rail line conected northern New Jersey with Cape May - would have been more cost effective and more energy efficient, but in 1952 all America wnated to do was build more highways! That thinking turned New Jersey from a mainly rural state with small but vibrant cities into a nightmarish landscape of suburban sparwl and giant ghettos.
InEast Orange, the Garde nState Parkway replaced the old Oraton Parkway, a residential thoroughfare with a median wider than some streets. The Garden State Parkway construcution destroyed the most beautiful street in Essex County. Bloomfield may not have ended up like East Orange, but the Parkway helped turn its open spaces into tract housing. Those wide GSP medians in Union County? Gone, because the Parkway was widened to accomodate more traffic.
The Garden State Parkway has had an adverse affect on the state, in my opinion. It drained the population centers in the northern part of the staet and encouraged exubran development in the Shore counties, which has damaged the sensitive land and water tables. Route 37 newar Toms River was a two-lane country road. Now it;'s a six-lane highway surrounded by big box stores and tract houses. People who live in Ocean County still have to trave luyp north to get to their jobs.
Ttrust me, the Parkway had little to do with the demise of East Orange. The Parkway runs through dozens of towns that didn't end up like East Orange. I think the change of demographics had more to do with it than anything else.
7:50 is that Pauly D?
08Lasventuras 1 month ago
Vey interesting. Is the narrator Hugh Beaumont of Leave It To Beaver fame?
Sure sounds like his voice.
MichaelKazmar 10 months ago
Thanks for the comments about my comments, sorry for all my typos.
fishdeschois 1 year ago
@dohc73 I KNOW. That's why we ended up in Colonia, NJ,which is nice but my parents never thought they would leave East Orange. They (the parkway folks) came in and took our neighborhood which the toll booth is now where our livingroom used to be. Hawthorne Ave was never the same.
merty55 1 year ago
Passenger rail - a rail line conected northern New Jersey with Cape May - would have been more cost effective and more energy efficient, but in 1952 all America wnated to do was build more highways! That thinking turned New Jersey from a mainly rural state with small but vibrant cities into a nightmarish landscape of suburban sparwl and giant ghettos.
fishdeschois 1 year ago
InEast Orange, the Garde nState Parkway replaced the old Oraton Parkway, a residential thoroughfare with a median wider than some streets. The Garden State Parkway construcution destroyed the most beautiful street in Essex County. Bloomfield may not have ended up like East Orange, but the Parkway helped turn its open spaces into tract housing. Those wide GSP medians in Union County? Gone, because the Parkway was widened to accomodate more traffic.
fishdeschois 1 year ago
The Garden State Parkway has had an adverse affect on the state, in my opinion. It drained the population centers in the northern part of the staet and encouraged exubran development in the Shore counties, which has damaged the sensitive land and water tables. Route 37 newar Toms River was a two-lane country road. Now it;'s a six-lane highway surrounded by big box stores and tract houses. People who live in Ocean County still have to trave luyp north to get to their jobs.
fishdeschois 1 year ago
Ttrust me, the Parkway had little to do with the demise of East Orange. The Parkway runs through dozens of towns that didn't end up like East Orange. I think the change of demographics had more to do with it than anything else.
greekgd 1 year ago
@censor48 thank you for this video.....loved it !
newyorkeastside 1 year ago
wow........memories from when I was a kid!!!! LOL
newyorkeastside 1 year ago