Color Photos That Show New Jersey in the 1970s

Greene Street Boat Club in Jersey City with the Lower Manhattan skyline and the World Trade Center in the distance, 1975

The view from a PATH train end-window on a trip from Newark to New York, Jersey City, March 1977.
The Erie Lackawanna railroad terminal, 1975
Liberty State Park, Jersey City, 1979
 1978
Battery Park City landfill towards Jersey City from the abandoned West Side Highway in front of the World Trade Center (its shadow on the left), May 1974
1975
Jersey City industrial ruins at the end of Greene Street, 1975
Abandoned pier at Exchange Place in Jersey City with World Trade Center across the Hudson, March 1975
A fenced off overgrown area that was too toxic to remediate, Jersey City, March 1974