"I TOLD THEM IT WAS MY WAY OR THE h...

"I TOLD THEM IT WAS MY WAY OR THE highway," says southern Amboy's Mayor John T. O'Leary, referring to the national builders interested in developing in his small of the present day Jersey town. "I showed them the highway." He also could have shown them the railway or the waterway as possible exits from this 1.5-square-mile city of 7080 citizens. The area exhibits three transportation alternatives, one of barely two such cities in recently made known Jersey. For this reason, along with its undevelop waterfront, toward the south Amboy represented a lucrative target for developer

But the city had grander plans