WENT TO DINNER TONIGHT with my co-blogger on my regular blog in Jersey City. I walked down a couple of miles from Hoboken, enjoying the oddness of it. Half of Jersey City looks like a “City of the FUTURE!!!” exhibit, ca. 1960–shiny glass skyscrapers and wide, empty boulevards. Most of the rest looks like a rotogravure spread on “The Tragedy of the Tenements”, ca. 1908. I find the juxtaposition aesthetically stimulating. But I had to laugh at the sign just south of the Holland Tunnel informing me that I was entering Historic Downtown. Judging from the area where it was located, the history of Jersey City was written in cinderblock.