In midst of COVID, what can or can’t be renovated in a small Jersey City park?
Updated Jan 07, 2021;
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A little more than a year ago, artist and lifelong Jersey City resident Pat Olsen did a diorama in response to a Project Greenville call for art submissions. That diorama featured, opposite a narrow green strip with golden high-rises on top of it, Olsen’s depiction of a barren landscape.
A take on South Greenville, skeletons lay outside a graveyard of things Olsen noted were lost to the area (bus lines, a supermarket, and a bank).
There was also a very small space fenced around a dead tree from which a buzzard overlooked the area. That area was Olsen’s artistic depiction of Martyniak-Enright Park, which sits at the intersection of Pamrapo Avenue and Old Bergen Road.
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A few days ago, in the midst of promoting his new, best-selling memoir, former President Barack Obama went looking for a new audience. He made an appearance on the Snapchat show, “Good Luck America,” which is generally followed by young, progressive Democrats.
In other words, this audience was not your father’s Democratic Party.
Not surprisingly, Obama was asked if his party should embrace its most liberal side, which has called for defunding police departments and pushing for uber-progressive ideals such as free college.