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“Katama,” by Stephen Wuensch

If you’re looking for the place in Jersey City that is farthest from deep space, Hamilton Park would be that place. Everything about the neighborhood is intensely terrestrial. It’s green, it’s full of life, and it’s the home of many people who are proximate to earthly power of one kind or another. Hamilton Park exudes a spirit of closeness, with street-level businesses and stoop-level life, the rest of the Downtown in walking distance, and New York City on the far side of the tunnel. Those who convene there do not seem like lost astronauts. There’s too much at their fingertips for them to bother thinking about the void.

Not so on Cornelison Avenue. There’s a raw, defiant industrial…