Submitted by JourneymanHunt t3_10eduhy in jerseycity
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Buenos-dhaas t1_j4q9emq wrote
flyingcrayons t1_j4qayd3 wrote
There's a portion of the wall in battery park city right by Brookfield Place! It's pretty cool seeing a part of history just plopped down in the park
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j4qbh4t wrote
Really? That's pretty cool! I'll have to definitely check that out.
flyingcrayons t1_j4qc4zm wrote
Here's the location, its kind of hard to explain how to get there unless you know that area well (in which case its in the park to the right when you're walking from brookfield to treadwell park, by the le pain quotidien)
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j4qco3d wrote
I go through there a fair amount, I'll definitely swing by on my next way through.
Brudesandwich t1_j4r18tg wrote
What's the correlation here?
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j4q8iy5 wrote
TBF, this was only 5 years after the fall of the Wall. So there were large swaths of it just falling into urban decay. It wasn't until much later that people started to think to preserve it.
DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j4r1ydv wrote
Oddly enough, I have a piece, too, also from the same year.
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j4rilnm wrote
What were you doing over there at that time?
DirectorBeneficial48 t1_j4rpghp wrote
Visiting my brother, who was teaching there for a year.
Sailing_Grey_Rabbit t1_j6448we wrote
Super cool! We have a piece of the Berlin Wall here in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town, it was apparently donated to us at some point. The land mark is literally called Piece of the Berlin Wall. lol - I should go get a pic sometime.
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j647e26 wrote
Please do! And.... how come someone in CT is checking out JC? LOL
Sailing_Grey_Rabbit t1_j64fgm0 wrote
I wasn't loool I didn't even realize it was a JC sub 🤣 was checking out your profile from the Mennonites post
JourneymanHunt OP t1_j64h6bq wrote
Well, I've been wanting to speak to someone from SA about a project I'm working on! PM me!
burrito__supreme t1_j4q8q5b wrote
are you in the right subreddit? this is cool but i’m confused on how it relates to jersey city
edit never mind just saw the stickied post explicitly stating this is a contest in the sub. i saw this post initially from my home feed so didn’t have that context. carry on.