My Favorite Photos by Andy Blair of Vintage Jersey City and Environs | Flickr

Grim, gothic and industrial view of the Queensboro Bridge and two massive smokestacks, showing the reconstruction of its train tracks looking east to Queens. New York. 1930. by Andy Blair

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Reminds me of one of my favorite 1970s Jersey City photos, updated for 2012... City kids playing street football on Westervelt Place toward the old 19th century Whitlock Cordage factory. by Andy Blair

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Jersey City vs. Paris: Does Paris have cool abandoned factories? (no)... Does Paris have piles of litter? (no)... Does Paris have barbed wire fences? (no)... JC wins! by Andy Blair

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Although today this is Liberty Harbor, in 1979 it was the tired old Morris Canal filled with ruins of the industrial age, which by then was totally spent and long gone. Jersey City, New Jersey. by Andy Blair

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Everything you always wanted to know about the Colgate Clock in Jersey City on one convenient postcard from 1920. Really nice color view of the Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal, Ferry Terminals and Fruit Pier at Exchange Place. by Andy Blair

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Large industrial metallic tanks of soap and perfuming chemicals dominated the intersection of Essex and Hudson Streets. The Colgate Plant had its own rail system and a Southern box car is visible on the right. Jersey City, New Jersey. 1950 by Andy Blair

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Harborside Terminal at bottom, Exchange Place with abandoned piers and the Colgate Plant at center, Morris Canal and Central RR of New Jersey at top. The Pennsylvania RR tracks had recently been pulled up in the lower part of the view. Jersey City. 1970 by Andy Blair

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Abandoned Lehigh Valley Railroad Pier G on the Morris Canal rots away overtaken by weeds and ghetto palms while the World Trade Center takes in the scene from Lower Manhattan. Weedy and desolate. Jersey City. 1979 by Andy Blair

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Demolition of the old Pennsylvania Railroad elevated tracks leading to their terminal at Exchange Place. Photo taken from Grove Street looking east to Exchange Place and the Colgate Plant. Jersey City. 1965 by Andy Blair

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What's left of the “Hanging out in the neighborhood, 1946 style” photo. Johnston Avenue looking east toward the NJ Turnpike and Liberty State Park. Now a post-urban landscape with a few random survivors between weedy fields. Jersey City. March 2012 by Andy Blair

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1950s urban futurism. The highway of tomorrow. The brand new New Jersey Turnpike hovers over Jersey City. 1956. by Andy Blair

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Hanging out in the neighborhood, 1946 style. Johnston Avenue looking east toward the Central Railroad of New Jersey train yards in the distance. Today, this is one of the main entrance streets to Liberty State Park. Jersey City, New Jersey by Andy Blair

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Now and Then view: Baldwin Avenue where the State Highway 139 viaduct ends with cobblestones and lots of cool 1940s cars. Jersey City. 1950 (well, not quite… but this is how the same exact neighborhood looks now in March 2012). by Andy Blair

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Rare vintage postcard of the second Lackawanna Tunnel being bored through Bergen Hill in Hoboken. The existing tunnel was opened on May 12 1877 and this photo is from one year before the new one opened in 1908. Looks like they just made it through. by Andy Blair

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Right where the Grove of Remembrance in Liberty State Park is now, once stood the Central Railroad of New Jersey Engine terminal. Manhattan looks on as if from a different world. Jersey City. 1979 by Andy Blair

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National Docks Grain Elevator and old wooden barges surrounded by a bleak but stangely peaceful setting at Black Tom in Jersey City where the lower end of Liberty State Park is now. 1952 by Andy Blair

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The Pennsylvania Railroad's Harsimus Stem Embankment which people are now trying to save as a linear park looked mercilessly bleak in 1951. Looking west at 6th Street. Jersey City. by Andy Blair

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Aerial view of the Pennsylvania Railroad connection to its terminal and ferries on the Hudson River at Exchange Place in Jersey City. The Colgate plant at right. 1960 by Andy Blair

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