Loew’s Jersey – Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

Let’s Go to the Movies

After checking out the exterior of the historic Loew’s Jersey movie theater a couple of weeks ago, I didn’t expect to see the interior anytime soon. I knew that the theater screens classic films, but also that it’s closed in the summer due to a lack of air conditioning. I thought I’d missed my chanceContinue reading “Let’s Go to the Movies”

Two Movie Palaces in Journal Square

A massive transportation complex dominates Jersey City’s Journal Square, a grotesquely ugly concrete-block monstrosity of the type favored by urban planners in the 1960s and ‘70s. Thousands of commuters pass through the transportation center each day as they head to New York or Newark on the PATH subway trains that rumble underground. Few of thoseContinue reading “Two Movie Palaces in Journal Square”