{"id":18699,"date":"2017-04-30T21:50:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=18699"},"modified":"2023-07-04T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T04:04:21","slug":"2023-one-loveright-across-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=18699","title":{"rendered":"2023 – One Love\u2026\u2026\u2026Right Across The Street!"},"content":{"rendered":"

……………………………………………….<\/span>(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on July 4, 2023)<\/p>\n

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After making two posts last Friday, I was exhausted. Double-duty researching, scanning and writing takes its toll.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo more for a while.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Then I read Friday\u2019s local newspaper (click to enlarge):<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is happening tonight<\/em>?\u201d Oy!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The good news was that Anderson Park is right across the street from where I live. Piece of cake\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

I went over there at about 5:30pm to scout it out and take the \u201cbefore\u201d pix of the street signs and their covered additions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The park was starting to fill up, so I shot a couple of quick video snippets to include some of the DJ\u2019s music:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KXNUdl-CzEw<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The festivities started with some welcoming remarks by some of the representatives of various Jamaican organizations (I apologize for not knowing their names).<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the scene as four of them spoke (click the first two to enlarge a bit):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Suddenly, a familiar face spotted me\u2026\u2026\u2026.it was Hackensack Mayor John Labrosse:<\/span><\/p>\n

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He was the next speaker:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I heard correctly, I think he was introduced as \u201cMayor Ambrose\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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John presents the formal declaration to Jamaican Organization of New Jersey president Nahshon Bolton:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is the City Council\u2019s resolution of May 23, 2023 that commemoratively renames the one-block stretch of Anderson St – the northern border of the park – as \u201cOne Love Way\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is 5 minutes of a speech, an invocation and a few words from \u201cMayor Ambrose\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nuov_igcerQ<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The group shot:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There were a couple of other speakers, including someone whose name I WAS familiar with – the Reverend Gregory Jackson, the former senior pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church of Hackensack:<\/span><\/p>\n

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OK – we\u2019re done with the podium pix.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I see the Mayor has met some lovely new friends:<\/span><\/p>\n

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BTW – if you look behind the head of the woman on the right, you can see the building I live on top of\u2026\u2026\u2026.literally across the street.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One last interesting foot<\/em>note regarding the woman on the right:<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is a very wide panoramic shot – close to 180\u00ba – of almost everyone in Anderson Park (click twice to REALLY enlarge and then start scrolling side to side):<\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve run out of things to photograph and I\u2019ve now been waiting nearly two hours for the<\/u> shot of the day: the big street-sign unveiling (actually TWO of them on the NE and NW corners).<\/span><\/p>\n

The first one (Anderson St and Union St – my street) was the biggie. I knew that at some point, everyone would be directed to head on over to that corner.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where pre-event research comes in handy. I had combined where the best light on the signs would be with where the primary participants would be standing and facing and was already camped out on that spot when the crowd was directed there.<\/span><\/p>\n

It paid off.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pre-unveiling remarks by Nahshon Bolton:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The unveiling:<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE shot of the event:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I took only this shot and no others, I\u2019d be thrilled. Everyone\u2019s face is visible and happy (except the photographer in the street) and all street sign names are clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time for the second(ary) unveiling. I had immediately started to hustle down the street, when I suddenly turned around, noticed the crowd behind me and snapped a quickie:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For the first time in my life, I felt like I was leading a short parade.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I shot video for this corner\u2019s unveiling:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wTeo0SNf6y4<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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After the unveiling:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Click this one to enlarge:<\/span><\/p>\n

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THE OVERALL RESULT<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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TWO<\/strong> NEW STREET SIGNS:<\/span><\/p>\n

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……………………………………………….(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on July 4, 2023)   After making two posts last Friday, I was exhausted. Double-duty researching, scanning and writing takes its toll. \u201cNo more for a while.\u201d Then I read Friday\u2019s local newspaper (click to enlarge): \u201cThis is happening tonight?\u201d Oy!   The good news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18699"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18742,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18699\/revisions\/18742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}