Today I had about 4 hours between a lunch time commitment in Lower Manhattan and a dinner time commitment and no access to an Unlimited ride MetroCard (damn no more fun passes, I don’t want to by a monthly or a weekly to force my self to spend more time working on the computer side of the site) so I decided to finish some things off on PATH and in Jersey City. I first did a photo essay of the current state of the World Trade Center Station and saw tons of construction workers on their way to lunch walking through the station. Next I went out to Journal Square and did a discreet photo essay of that station before leaving the system to walk a few blocks to the footbridge over the tracks about four blocks away at Tonnelle Avenue. I considered walking to the Grove Street Station and went back down the escalators of the mezzanine of the Journal Square PATH Station but I did not have a map and the next stop was too far away to be included on the neighborhood map in the station. Instead I got back on the train and took it to Exchange Place for a quick photo stop discreetly getting photos of the station platforms before doubling back to Grove Street and taking a photo essay of that stop (turns out there not all that short a 1 1/2 mile walk apart).
From there I went up to street level and walked back to downtown Jersey City and took a photo essay of Journal Square’s two building entrances (one for the escalators in the ventilation plant for the river tube, and one for the elevators in their own buildings). Next I started walking north taking some Light Rail photos, stopping at the Newport Mall briefly for air conditioning and the public restroom before continuing with a photo essay of the Pavonia-Newport Station Building and finally taking the waterfront walk to Hoboken Terminal and getting some photos of that historic station. From both inside and afar. After that I was off to 23rd Street (took a few photos of the PATH platforms there that egress directly into the subway station) for my next appointment, and a final subway ride back to Washington Heights.