IN PAPERBACK: Jersey City Snapshots

Jersey City Snapshots
By Anthony Buccino

More than 200 color snapshots of Jersey City, New Jersey, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.

Full Color on White paper; 126 pages

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Voices On the Bus, Train, Subway, Sidewalk and In My Head

Verse about commuting in Northern New Jersey. 

Voices On the Bus, Train, Subway, Sidewalk and In My Head

By Anthony Buccino

Feel the rhythm of the rails as you travel the last days of the Newark City Subway, or the PATH, and be relieved you are not present to hear the Preacher Man or Mr. Tourette's but do listen for the noise above the hum of the wheels and turn your ear to the voices on the bus, train or standing nearby on the platform.

Commuting daily on the bus, train, subway or PATH, one settles into a routine of familiar seating and faces. You can stare out the window listening to your own music, or read a book, or write poems about the experience. This is the latter.

Working class verse and tales, musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New Jersey.

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ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY in print and eReaders

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY
By Anthony Buccino
Verse written along the Hudson River in Jersey City, N.J.

You can hear a lot by looking around. Sometimes, standing along the Hudson River shoreline, you can dream of the freedom in the sailing beauty slipping through the waves, or question the signals proffered by a hungry seagull, or ponder why the pigeons follow you.

Or you could sit ever so still and listen to the clatter of heels on the tile as the cigarette mafia heads outside for fresh air, while you slip in among them and consider the steel and glass surroundings.

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J. Owen Grundy Park

Town that gives poetic license

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This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter

This Seat Taken?
By Anthony Buccino

If you ever commuted to work, you'll enjoy reading Anthony Buccino's latest collection "This Seat Taken? Notes of a Hapless Commuter" about the joys and follies of getting to and from work in the city using metropolitan public transit.

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Anthony Buccino spent 12 years editing business news copy at Dow Jones & Co. for the Ticker, NewsPlus and The Wall Street Journal professional web pages.

The company was located in Jersey City when he started and 10 years later moved to the NewsCorp building in the Times Square district of mid-town Manhattan.

For his first year working in Jersey City, Buccino actually drove the 12 miles each way to work and home. An average commute would take 20 minutes to reach the city and at least another 20 minutes to cross the city to his parking lot near the Hudson River.

It wasn't long before the cross-town traffic and the monthly parking fee, nearly enough for a car payment, persuaded the author to use mass transit for the first time ever to get to work.

 For 11 years, he rode public transportation including NJ Transit buses, Newark City Subway, Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, Port Authority Trans Hudson's PATH trains, the occasional NYC subway and DeCamp buses. Kindle version of NYC commuter musings.

For five years, Buccino wrote about commuting and transit in metro New York-New Jersey for NJ.com. His transit blog on NJ.com earned the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award. Many of those blurbs are gathered in this collection.

Commuters who knew he wrote for NJ.com would seek him out and tell him their commuter tales of woe. Often they would simply commiserate and try to see who had a worse ride in that day. But more than once, Buccino was button-holed after a scathing piece on, say, homeless people's using Newark City Subway stairwells as toilets, and told that it was cleaned up within hours of his writing about it online.

Jersey City Snapshots - for Kindle ereaders

Get out your Kindle (Fire) and check out Jersey City Snapshots. A new book by Anthony Buccino. 

More than 200 color snapshots of Jersey City, New Jersey, from Pavonia/Newport to Paulus Hook, from Grundy Park to Grove Street, along the Hudson River from the Colgate clock to Exchange Place, Harborside and through neighborhoods that have no names.

Color photos are ideal for viewing on Kindle Fire, and bring you up close to New Jersey's second-largest city, its building boom and its broken ground.

Writer/photographer, who worked and walked these streets for nearly ten years, leaves words behind and speaks thorugh the camera lens and we see the commonplace wildlife, the glimmering structures and the grandeur of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center and the memorials erected in Jersey City.

This collection is ideal for fans of Jersey City, and folks who've always wanted to visit.

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In June my company tranferred us all across the river to Midtown Manhattan and I won't be getting to J. Owen Grundy Park very often. Please take care of it. Meanwhile, enjoy the slide show below.

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Grundy Park needs a new U.S. flag

A missing grommet will be the undoing of this U.S. flag on the pier at J. Owen Grundy Park in Jersey City across from the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan. The grommet has been missing for months. You'd think someone else might have noticed.











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Carnival

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Afternoon stroll in Jersey City

Along the Hudson River one sunny autumn afternoon ...

Lautenberg's ship comes in Empire State Building across the Hudson River Hyatt Hotel in sun and shadow, Grundy Park in the foreground

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Renovated!

Winter approaches J. Owen Grundy Park in Jersey City, N.J., on the Hudson River.

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The New Look

Before the rededication of the renovated J. Owen Grundy Park pier and later on in the day, after the food, the band and the politicians were gone.

Jersey City once again has a diamond in its rough.











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NEWS FLASH!
Three collections of essays by
Anthony Buccino are now available on Kindle.
A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection
Sister Dressed Me Funny
Rambling Round, Inside and Outside at the Same Time