Photo of the Day: Hackensack River, View From Oradell Avenue Veterans Memorial Bridge, Bergen County, NJ

I took the attached photo nearly two weeks ago as I was leaving an arts festival held in Oradell, a few towns from where I live in Bergen County, NJ.

The spot where this was taken, the Oradell Avenue Veterans Memorial Bridge, was built in 1904. 

This two-lane road with sidewalks, though it has carried 25,000 people every day, is now believed to be “structurally deficient and functionally obsolete,” said Congressman Josh Gottheimer, in a visit to the bridge 2 ½ years ago.

I’m not sure of the current status of Gottheimer’s attempt to claw back more than $1.14 billion in investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill— to help fix structurally deficient bridges susceptible to collapse. Let’s hope that this one isn’t one of them.

Photo of the Day: Oradell Arts Festival, Bergen County, NJ

Yesterday I attended the Oradell Arts Festival, about nine miles from where I live in Bergen County, NJ. I was promoting my new biography co-written with my friend Rob Polner, An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney Paul O’Dwyer.

The event was filled with artists showing their wares in booths like the ones I photographed here, dancers, and a “writers’ corner” for scribers like me.

My thanks to my friend Dianne for helping me secure a table to hold copies of the book, along with relatives and other friends who showed up to lend moral support.