{"id":24252,"date":"2025-09-14T11:43:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=24252"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:42:52","slug":"unannounced-9-11-tribute-in-hackensack-on-september-11-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=24252","title":{"rendered":"Unannounced 9\/11 Tribute in Hackensack on September 11, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may know, I’ve been documenting the construction of a residential building for the last few months that’s straight out from my living room window, albeit 1-2 blocks away. <\/span><\/p>\n

I have a camera on a tripod aimed at that window at all times so I can shoot as soon as I see (or anticipate) something.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the last couple of months, one of the things I’ve been documenting is the construction of the side-by-side elevator shaft and stairwell. All work is currently on the third floor. I think<\/em> the shaft and stairwell are now as tall as they’re gonna be.<\/span><\/p>\n

I took the below picture of both on 9\/11. Later, while looking at the picture, it slightly reminded me of the Twin Towers – a rather appropriate day for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fifteen minutes later, I saw a worker climbing the scaffolding between the two structures with something colorful in his hand. I zoomed in and saw it was a US flag. He disappeared behind the elevator shaft. Two minutes later (third pic), I saw his hard hat just above it (this was on the front side of the building facing Main St). Click to enlarge:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hmmmm……..Given what day it was, it seemed that a two-block walk was in order. It also seemed right to wear a shirt I bought on eBay almost a quarter-century ago: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Back: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Closeup of the badge: <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Not genuine merchandise”, you say? <\/span><\/p>\n

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(Back to our show) <\/span><\/p>\n

As I neared Main St, I took the first picture. I took the second one ON Main St: <\/span><\/p>\n

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This was not exactly a difficult guess. <\/span><\/p>\n

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OK, all you Hackensack readers – did anyone know about this in advance? Has anyone else even noticed the flag up there?<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn’t know if it was a one-day thing or not, so I went back the next day and shot these (how nice of them to remove all the scaffolding that was there yesterday):<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>I’m guessing it’ll stay up for the duration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oh – back to that shirt………I used to get a LOT of comments whenever I wore it. But this time – even after going food-shopping later………….nada. <\/span><\/p>\n

Actually, I think<\/em> I may have gotten ONE comment while I was shooting on Main St on 9\/11. I was near the curb and some guy was walking behind me, facing the back of the shirt. <\/span><\/p>\n

I’m guessing he read it because just as he passed me, I heard him say, “YUUUUUUP!” (sort of like Dave Hester from “Storage Wars”).<\/span><\/p>\n

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Or maybe he was just talking on his phone…………….<\/span><\/p>\n

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As you may know, I’ve been documenting the construction of a residential building for the last few months that’s straight out from my living room window, albeit 1-2 blocks away. I have a camera on a tripod aimed at that window at all times so I can shoot as soon as I see (or anticipate) […]<\/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-24252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252","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=24252"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24278,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24252\/revisions\/24278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}