North new jersey is the embroidery capital of the world!
Northern Branch Corridor Project -
I found this while looking at Capital Projects on the NJ Transit website. It appears to be frozen in time. Adding rail to this area of Bergen County would be awesome.
Unsurpring list of the most popular New Jersey searches on HopStop.Com -
Notice
1) All of the restaurants are chains, two are the same Medieval Times location.
2) The most popular “attraction” is the airport in Newark followed by the Meadowlands and the IKEA.
3) Garden State Plaza, what I believe to be the busiest mall in the East Coast (and probably my favorite in the area) is the number one shopping search, followed by another IKEA and then the Willowbrook mall in Wayne, which surprised me by not being that high end. It does however, have an Apple store.
There are some awesome ducks who hang out on a patch of grass right by the entrance to I-95 from ridgefield park. How did they get there?
These are the buses with service post 1:30 AM Monday - Friday, remember that service changes on the weekend. The location given usually means the city the bus’s last stop is in, remember the buses go through several cities before arriving at the end.
If you are used to commuting during the day from Port Authority, keep in mind that after 10:01 (after the 10 pm buses leave), the gates switch from the second floor to the third floor. After 1am, the gates also might change. Check the signs before heading to your usual gate. Also, you can’t get in to PABT without a ticket after 1am, so make sure you have it ready. The lines at the ticket machines can get annoying late at night, especially since many bus takers at that time aren’t the typical day commuters and they don’t know how to use the machines. I’ve seen (and gotten into) some arguments.
During the weekday, buses will typically leave on a half hour schedule from PABT. The times listed are the last scheduled bus times.
Be ready.
Here is the list!
From PABT:
107 South Orange
1:30 a.m.
128 North Bergen
2:30 a.m
156 Englewood Cliffs
2:10 a.m.
158 Edgewater - Fort Lee
1:30 a.m.
166 Cresskill
1:30 a.m.
167 Harrington Park
1:35 a.m.
159 Fort Lee
2:50 a.m.
190 Paterson
2:00 a.m, 2:30 a.m
139 Lakewood
2:30 a.m.
126 Hoboken
2:00 a.m.
Bergenfield, NJ in January 2009 (via mariamargarita)
I didn’t grow up in New Jersey. My mom’s sister was the first to make the trek, from a high rise in the Bronx to a duplex in Garfield, New Jersey. The name of that town would fill me with delight. A few years later, she moved to her own house, which had two separate levels and stairs. In my own city kid life, where I lived in a cramped apartment and all my friends lived in cramped apartments, houses with stairs were a novelty. What luxury to have a yard, a giant kitchen, your very own room!
My mom was never interested in pursuing the American dream of owning a house and if we hadn’t left when we did, I strongly suspect we’d still be in Brooklyn. But, a strange set of circumstances forced my parents to seek alternate living arrangements in 1999. My dad was sick of city living and started casually looking for a house. First, in the City, where it was too expensive to buy, and then naturally, as so many others before, in Jersey. A cute little two floor house was for sale around the corner from my aunt in Bergenfield, a block away from the NJ Transit NYC buses, and that’s where they’ve been since the summer of 1999. A month after we moved in I went off to college in Ohio.
Since that time, my mom’s other sister has also moved a few blocks away, along with her daughter and an army of kids. With our remaining close family a mere 20 minute drive across the George Washington Bridge in Washington Heights, Bergenfield has become the home base of the Diaz clan. My parents have completely become the kind of people who spend every weekend at Home Depot; gardening & home improvement are at the top of the list on how to spend the weekends (garage sales & costco are a distant third and fourth).
My own relationship with the state is an awkward relationship of convenience but I feel somewhat protective of it. I’m here now, I will be for a while and while I may try to claim NYC back as my own, I still have to cross the bridge to get home every night. So, I guess this blog is a way of dealing with that. I promise the rest will be more fun.