Meadowbrook Back to the Future: "Where we're going, we don't need roads" (spoiler alert: we do)

Published this day 7 August 1937, nine months after the grand opening ceremony, discussing roads opening on the Somerset County side of the Green Brook...

This ad was also published on 7 August 1937

This article excerpt was published in the NYTimes 8 August 1937

This next article was published 14 August, 1937, it talks about the roads opening on the Union County side of the neighborhood which was not built so these roads, like Willow Avenue and Boatcroft Lane, do not exist today.

This 1949 map still shows some of the proposed but unbuilt roads in Meadowbrook
(hint: there are 4 here but missing IRL)

... and six years later Marty McFly would be back in 1955 and Thistle Lane will disappear...

... coincidence?