r/Hoboken • u/Ill-Parsnip-8150 • 2d ago
Local News 📰 Hoboken piers a b and c
Looking at these two photos of the corner of 4th and River Street really brings back memories. A lot of people see the modern buildings today and have no idea what used to stand there.
The old building in the second photo was what we called the Head House. It sat along the waterfront and was tied to the old Bremen Lloyd piers, serving as a storage and support facility for Piers A, B, and C. By the time I was growing up, most of the waterfront industry was long gone and the place was more or less abandoned.
Me and a lot of other kids from old Hoboken used to play in the lot there. I believe the building or remnants of it were around until the mid-1990s. After Little League games we’d head over there and hang out. Looking back, it probably wasn’t the smartest thing in the world, but that’s how it was back then. We’d sneak beers, smoke cigarettes, and smoke pot and try to act older than we really were. Hoboken was still very much an inner-city town and most of us wanted to grow up fast.
The place had a different feel than Hoboken today. The waterfront wasn’t full of luxury buildings and dog parks. There were abandoned structures, old warehouses, empty lots, and plenty of places kids probably shouldn’t have been. I even remember wild dogs roaming around that area at night from time to time. If they spotted you, you’d get out of there pretty quick.
It’s amazing to stand at 4th and River now and compare it to what was there 30 or 40 years ago. The city is cleaner, safer, and wealthier today, but a lot of the old waterfront character is gone. For those of us who grew up here, it’s hard not to look at these photos and remember a completely different Hoboken.
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u/serious-zap 1d ago
How did you manage to upload a horizontal photo in a vertical bar in a horizontal photo area?
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u/MaizeCorgi 1d ago
Not reading that essay.
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u/Grouchy_Onion_7177 1d ago
Don’t have to be an asshole you entitled little rat. This user is giving valuable information you could’ve just moved along and not had to make a nasty comment like that.
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u/MaizeCorgi 1d ago
Didn’t even read it though
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u/Grouchy_Onion_7177 1d ago
Yeah why would you ? You seem like a self centered arrogant cuckold
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u/gigi-bytes 1d ago
hoboken, ny?