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Updated: 07-01-04
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Photo Essay: Court Tavern: Cruel But Fair
May-June
Additional Photos History Interview Vanishing New Brunswick
Bob and Eileen Albert own the Court Tavern on Church Street in New Brunswick. If your lookng for a sympathetic bartender to listen to your problems and pat you on the back, maybe this isn't the place for you. On the other hand, if you can handle some abuse from some bartenders who understand your demons because they have more than a few of their own, I'm sure you'd be welcome. Their motto is Cruel but Fair.
The democratic machine that is running New Brunswick seems to think the entire town would be better if it was one huge parking deck surounding J and J's Corporate Headquarters, Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Hospital. Various factions have been trying to buy Bobby's bar for several years now, but he wouldn't sell. So they decided to build around him.
I am taking a picture from three angles and posting them at this site. I probably won't make it every day, but I'm going to try to update it at least three times a week with some comments.
04/08/04 Construction begins at the
lot next to, and behind my local bar the Court Tavern.
The bartender says that a couple of construction
guys stopped in for lunch today. They're planning on taking 50 to 100 trucks of
debris out a day.
The projected effect on business: They may get
some of the constuction guys in for lunch and a couple of guys after work for a
couple of beers, but parking is going to be hell with the two lots being torn
up and the spaces on the side of the Court boarded off. This may affect their
weekend business where the Alberts make most of their money by hosting live
bands.
04/09/04
04-12-04
04-14-04
04-15-04
04-16-04 I moved up one level in the parking deck for the second picture for a better view. I'll be taking this shot from the 3'rd floor of the parking deck from here on in.
4-19-04 The tree in front of the Court is starting to bloom
4-22-04 They've painted the barrier blue.
04-23-04 IV
4-27-04 Everybody wave hi to Eileen Albert
05-01-04 I have moved my location for the second picture again. I think there is a much better view of the site from the other end of the parking deck, and the tree was blooming into the camera view.
05-03-04 They have removed my favorite construction machine, the red one with the drill on the end of it.
05-05-05 Cinco De Mayo.
05-08-04
05-11-04
05-13-04 They're starting to pour some concrete
5-17-04
5-20-04 They've added a office trailer
5-25-04
5-28-04 They dug up the sidewalk in front today, without giving Bobby any notice. They seem to have done a good temporary job ob replacing it. They said they'd be back with a proper sidewalk tommorrow. I don't think they'll have it in for two years when the project is approaching completion.
06-04-04 There hasn't been too much change in the construciton so I won't be updating as often until I see some action. I was wrong about the sidewalk. It's been replaced just a few days after being uprooted.
06-15-04 Not much change yet. You can see some in the Additional Photos section.
06-22--04
06-24-04 I'm going to change the third view some time this week. Got to do a little research to find a better area because it looks the same every day from this view, and the job site is starting to look different below the street level.
06-30-04 Changed the 3'rd view to the Feren Deck Parking lot on Church Street. You can see the job site better. Once the job gets above street level I may change back.
