Photos of an Encampment on New Jersey Cliffs

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On the Cliffs, a World Apart

The Spanish photographer Ester Jove Soligue spent several years documenting a ragtag collection of shacks tucked along cliffs in Union City, N.J.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/on-the-cliffs-a-world-apart/?pagewanted=all

The gleaming Manhattan skyline rising over the Hudson River is about as real as a stage prop to Cruz, Emilio and their friends. They can see this illusory panorama from their wind-swept perch — a collection of shacks tucked along cliffs in Union City, N.J.

In 2008, Ester Jove Soligue, 32, a Spanish photographer, began documenting this improvised neighborhood just inland from Weehawken Cove