{"id":19685,"date":"2017-04-30T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=19685"},"modified":"2023-12-07T00:09:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T05:09:52","slug":"2023-new-construction-at-9-11-e-passaic-st-hackensack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=19685","title":{"rendered":"2023 – New Construction at 9-11 E. Passaic St, Hackensack"},"content":{"rendered":"

……….. ……………………………<\/span>(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on December 7, 2023)<\/p>\n

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Looking out my living room window on 11-21-23, I saw a large crane that seemed to be right in the middle of Main and Passaic streets. Was the former YMCA building being torn down?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I walked over there and saw that it was a bit further down on Passaic St. I also saw what appeared to be a newly-erected wall of rusty metal down near the McDonald\u2019s at Passaic and River streets:<\/span><\/p>\n

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What the hell\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..?<\/span><\/p>\n

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This site used to house two businesses. Here\u2019s a 2021 shot I found on Google of the Roger Joseph Salon at 9 E. Passaic and Target Printing & Graphics at 11 E. Passaic:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking of Graphics\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a 2022 shot from Google taken after the demolition of both businesses:\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

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Back to the present\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I saw more of these metal pieces being off-loaded from a truck and then individually-hoisted in the air and guided down next to the \u201cwall\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and then pushed further down by an excavator:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A view to the west (PANO shot – click to enlarge all images labeled \u201cPANO\u201d):<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026to the north:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2026and to the east, as far as Foschini Park (as taken from home the next day):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The day after (the 23rd), I walked over to the site and found that the \u201cwall\u201d – now on two<\/em> sides – had been almost completely driven into the ground, save for about 2 feet (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lot of stuff being excavated on the south side (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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The reverse view from the northwest corner of the site (PANO):<\/span><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s now a week later (11-30-23). Here\u2019s a PANO taken from the northeast corner:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two more PANO views looking north and east:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Usually, if I don\u2019t see anything going on from home, I\u2019m not inspired to take a stroll over there. On December 1, I saw a crane in action:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But I couldn\u2019t see what it was carrying for a long time until I saw this load (in the rain):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nope – still staying home.<\/span><\/p>\n

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BTW – this is what the new building is supposed to look like:<\/span><\/p>\n

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BONUS! If you\u2019re lucky enough to score a front-facing apartment in this place, you get a stunning view of the side of the old YMCA building! (see 11-30-23 north PANO view, 4 pictures back)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good luck!<\/span><\/p>\n

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……….. ……………………………(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on December 7, 2023)   Looking out my living room window on 11-21-23, I saw a large crane that seemed to be right in the middle of Main and Passaic streets. Was the former YMCA building being torn down?   I walked over there […]<\/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-19685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685","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=19685"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19732,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19685\/revisions\/19732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}