Someone's poopin'!

I lived in a bordering town and remember the story that a person committed suicide by jumping off the ITT tower.

Went up there on a field trip as a kid. Should have been preserved.

Wow. thanks for putting this up. I grew up in Belleville and the ITT Tower was an iconic Landmark. I wasn't around when this happened but seeing it now kind of made me feel nostalgic and sad at the same time.

Should have been kept as a monument.

That's kinda sad. That tower was a landmark most of my life. I miss it.

The tower was a bizarre sight if you didn't know about it ahead of time. What the **** is that?

I always feel bad for the people that spent hours every week building structures that eventually get scheduled for demolition. I also feel bad for whomever has to clean up the mess after the demolition.

The city doesn't even have bi-lingual signs which are cool but many only in spanish. That's not right.

I was there when it came down, a piece of history gone.

What a neat old tower, a real shame we keep losing pieces of history for new development.

worked there 1985 till july 1992, sorry to see it went down.

Back in the day.. Seeing it from a distance, i thought it was a tiny airport and that was the watch tower.. oh well

I liked putting the potatoes on the hotdogs qith chili and mustard.

Lived in Belleville (the next town over) from the 60s to 77. The early 70s my friends and I would ride our bikes to the huge ITT campus and by the mid 70s we'd drive there and park in one of the many employee lots and party. ITT never seemed to mind kids hanging out or running around their property. No guards, no fence, you could just drive and walk around the place without anyone stopping you. You could walk right up to that tower without a problem. There was a large reflecting pond in front of it. We spent many days there, hanging out and doing what teenagers do. A lot of great childhood memories spent there. I was sad to see it all knocked down.

that sound was the coolest thing

Ice skating on the pond

I lived on McKinley St. as a child and remember seeing the blinking red light on the tower every night. Blink...blink...blink...all night long. It was like having your own personal red-eyed giant keeping watch over you. ITT was quite a good citizen in town. Among other generosities, they opened the pool at their private country club so the kids (myself included) could take swimming lessons. It was a real shame when the tower was destroyed. So narrow-minded of the greedy bastards that ran the town - destroy rather than preserve is their motto. The tower was iconic and provided something that made Nutley stand out from Belleville, Bloomfield, Clifton, etc. Not so the cookie-cutter houses and condos that were built on the ITT property. The blasted town didn't even have the foresight to preserve the country club, which was torn down to build even more cheap cookie-cutter condos.

I feel like I remember seeing that tower when I was younger.

When I first moved up here it was already vacant and there was talk of putting a nightclub up there. How cool would that have been? The view from the top must have been great.

A shame what happened to Elizabeth. My grandparents first lived on Spencer Street then at the corner of 3rd ave and Palmer - across from Paranella's deli. Mrs. Paranella used to sit outside every day - she looked like 100 years old. My Grandfather used to go to Petrillo's to get the hot bread after going to church at St. Anthony's on Sundays, and we would put salt w/olive oil on it when he got back. We would also hit Stacy's Deli, which was right across from St. Anthony's. I also remember Jerry's hotdog, which was next to their rival Tommy's. I also remember going to Kolker's toy store and Newman's 5 and dime on broad street. All of my family still gets buried by Corsentino's on 2nd ave. My mom and aunt went to Battin high as well (I have one of the brass door knobs from the school that has Battin High molded into it), and my grandfather was the head janitor at EHS from when it first got built for many years until he retired - his family had a lemon ice stand way back as well. These were good times. Shame on the way it just got forgotten by the state and let go. St. Roccos used to be safe and you could walk on 3rd ave at midnight without fear of getting mugged.

This parade was not in Elizabeth, these stores were never here.

I've been told, that after careful examination, this film was not shot in Elizabeth, NJ but Atlantic City, NJ

I love the username, btw ;)

I saw this same exact scene yesterday morning here in queens nyc. I was shocked to see an owl. The crows wanted to attack it.

When I was a young boy living in Lyndhurst on Park Avenue I would see the lights on this tower blinking at night - every night - as I was going to sleep. The tower was a peaceful sight for me and I am sad to know that it is gone.

I love old architecture (even though I'm in my 20s), even purely utilitarian buildings such as these were designed with a sense of style. You hardly ever see that anymore in new buildings. Too bad the developers couldn't have incorporated the tower into their development somehow. It was a nice looking building. There wasn't anything wrong with it structurally and it definitely was not an eyesore like other microwave towers, such as the AT&T Long Lines antennas from the old days.

Yes, it was- my father, raised on Jersey Ave. & born in the mid '30s, went to that same White Castle as a middle school graduation lunch (they were poor) around the year 1948. Crazy, huh?

Dang! Ithink I was photographed by ur dad for my fifteens-right next to the Arrepientete Cristo Viene Pronto place ( next to El Palmar or Alvarez Cafe?)...long time ago (80's).

I noticed the Fanny Farmer too-use to go there alot as a kid in late 70's.

You've got that right.

This is Elizabeth Nj on broad street I see Fanny farmer chocolate store next to where shoppers world use to be now its avenue store

It's too bad that was torn down. It would have been such a wicked structure to explore

i would have loved to have lived up there, so cool

I remember ice skating next to that tower. I was sad the day it came down

@robotmuffinz just wut i was thinking lol it's like shit i'll take that if u dont want it ;)

Elizabeth once had the best stores around. Sure miss the oldtimers...

That would have been a great condo,.....just not there. Microwave goodbye!

That would have been a great condo,.....just not there.

Imagine the hammer and can made a spark and the deoderent caught fire that would hurt

this is airplain 747 is the run way clear for landing .... HELLO?????......oh shit

@Ewochable: Bc they can almost spin their head 360% as if they were possessed? XD lol

@Ewochable Kind of the same reason people hate serial killers--fear.

Why does every bird hate owls?

Neato Torpedo!!!

im just going to hit it with a hammer..........................KAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM

smart one

Right into another building!!!

What makes me a good demoman?

The ITT tower was built in 1947 for microwave experimentation. Without the experiments here, much of what we take for grated today with pagers, cell phones, etc., could not have existed. Nutley was eager to get more property tax rateables, and the property was developed into tacky McMansions. Nobody knew, or cared about the technological ground-breaking that was done there. Yes, the tower was a true work of industrial art, and the fine gentlemen who worked there were the best of the best.