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Port Newark is America’s largest port on the Atlantic coast. On weekdays, hundreds of cargo ships deliver thousands of Chinese-made products to waiting trucks and trains. On weekends, the port is empty of life, an unintentional and empty urban monument to America’s economic might.
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Rusting barge
This way to freedom
Port Newark freight yard
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Gazing toward Manhattan
This way to freedom
Three shipping cranes being delivered by boat from China.
Urban beach
Container cranes at rest
Rusting barge
Donjon Marine Company
Interrogation chair
Father and mother
Corroded dock
Prelude to a broken arm – after the act
Scrap metal office
Scrap metal
Landscaped truck depot
God bless America!
Big tires, bigger nation
Big tires, bigger nation
Hyatt Boulevard
Land of the Free
A sense of scale
Craneway Street
Caution: machines at work
Craneway Street
Wilson Avenue
Gulf Station
Coffee and Gas
Corbin Stret
Gulf Station
Port Newark IKEA cusomers at dusk
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- Penn Station Newark drawbridge
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- Pulaski Skyway
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- Port Newark freight yard
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PLEASE BE KIND. DO NOT LITTER. FAPS INC. CARES ABOUT YOU.
– signage adorning truck depot
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When I left home to attend Columbia University, I knew the transition to college would leave me homesick for Newark. To remind me of home, I painted this watercolor panorama. Every night, in my dorm room, I gazed at this painting and traced the streets and buildings of my childhood memories.
