The current conditions also come with a price for local residents/ entrepreneurs who work hard and are forced to leave their neighborhoods behind because of lack of opportunities, safety. Yes, there should be help for local business which is what provides balance other than that gentrification will help modernize Newark.

I don't want them to go elsewhere I want tax abatements for private companies to be banned outright. If you know your development is going to charge $2k or more for units honestly you don't need a tax break and if you're whole business profit plan depends on those tax breaks in the first place then you shouldn't be in business. I'm against the shifting of taxes on the ones who can't afford it

I said nothing about ownership. I was talking about occupancy. Are the majority of occupants of the luxury rentals Americans? If so, why are they less worthy of enjoying public services (that they pay for through taxes)? That is the crux of your argument. With better transit comes more expensive housing and that in turn causes displacement of existing residents. All points I agree with btw. What I don’t agree with is your solution. You want the luxury apartment to go “elsewhere”. Where will they go? Even if they could; why should they?

The point I make and you willfully sidestep is that i think your solution is wrong. It’s wrong because it divides people. It encourage people who would otherwise have things in common to hate and mistrust each other. I argue that as a result of this we can never have nice things because we can never unite over the things we agree on long enough to get it. That is bad for all of us.

Well as far as you saying about Russian owning it. A times article a couple years ago pretty much showed evidence that the majority of Manhattan luxury rentals were owned by shell companies with links to out of the country people or businesses. As far as taxes building owners aren't paying their fair share and just like with the rest of the wealthy that tax burden gets moved on to the average nobody barely getting by. Now as far as you saying people should earn more money well thanks to the pandemic people have been getting paid more and employment has been low. What does that do? the feds scream and cry people are making too much money and unemployment isn't high enough which is why they're raising interest rates now to create that unemployment level that is acceptable to the economy and supposedly will bring down inflation

So what? You talk as if the people who occupy the “luxury” units are all Russian who are taking advantage of our infrastructure. In case you don’t know; those people are tax paying American. Their taxes help pay for the infrastructure in the first place. This is the hard bigotry of anti-gentrification; a policy that demands you hate your neighbor purely on the basis that he is willing or able to pay more then you do in rent.

If housing is not affordable then either build public housing or increase wages. The govt is not willing to do either. It actively works against both objectives.

Here is a prime example of the utter idiocy of modern progressive ideology. Thousands of homeless sleeping rough on the streets. The progressive answer is not to house them; that would be too easy. Instead we are supposed to give over our parks, stations, curbsides and other public spaces to the homeless do as they please. Anyone who dare question the efficacy of this policy is labeled a racist, bigot, fascist etc.

This is the what progressivism is today, a shell game of virtue signaling and manufactured outrage designed to divide the public and keep poor and disenfranchised exactly where they are.

But the prices is for some of those apartments even in old Harrison are getting ridiculous.

Harrison added housing on former industrial sites where no one was living. There hasn't been a ton of actual gentrification of old Harrison residents getting displaced by new ones yet.

You get the Transit access you ask for then suddenly developers take interest in the area and get their paid off politicians to help with tax breaks then suddenly the poor residents get priced out because now it's all "luxury" housing so they would never truly get to enjoy the station at the end of the day

That PATH extension has been promised since the 70s it's never going to happen in our life time. This njt station is more proof of that. Besides anyone here who's been on a NJT or Amtrak that stopped at the airport knows how crowded it can get with the luggage now imagine that shit on the smaller PATH train during rush hour it's going to be terrible

Many parts of East Orange (and Orange) are gorgeous. Severely underrated. But there are definitely shady areas. "Near" that park, depends. You're probably good. Just use common sense.

I am confused is the south ward getting a path station, if so ofc bc of that movie studio being built

Definitely true.

Oh definitely, but I do find it funny that those same people that petitioned the Feds to change the borders of a community are the same ones upset when a random street they are too afraid to step foot on gets its named changed even if the old functional name is still the primary name of the street

I mean it'll still take like 5 years but yes eventually, youll be able to use the NJT trains there without having to go all the way into Newark Penn or Elizabeth

Oh ok thanks. So basically us south warders can access the air train to the NEC station now. That’s actually pretty awesome

The PATH extension to the airport station was supposed to open this year. They actually haven't even stated construction. What this article is saying, is that they will move forward with the portion of the project that is basically a staircase and sidewalk from the existing NJT station to the nearby road.

Can anyone explain this in English. I don’t really understand what is being accomplished here.

Bravo!🤗🤗

Correct. I feel Newark is not a priority at all for the port authority. Everything is about New York City and Port Newark and Elizabeth. As well as the Jersey City extension of the port. I believe Helen hook terminal Staten Islands also a satellite of Port Newark. The station is a good start.

I envisioned the hillside branch used as a Newark light rail extension to reach Irvington. This will be part of the Newark Library extension along Broad Street that can go up along Elizabeth Avenue

This is good news. As much as I dream about an expanded PATH to Cranford / Aldine with stops at South Street / Oak Island, Dayton- ewr, Jersey gardens, downtown Elizabeth , Roselle and a branch off the main line at South Street proceeding on the Springfield Ave Irvington or using the hillside Branch to access Irvington from behind, it's not going to happen. The Port Authority is strictly centered on New York City. New Jersey worships New York City. If the PA can't afford the LaGuardia air train which is just a light rail, it's not going to build a Four Mile heavy rail extension to EWR. Newark needs its own Transit Authority!

Pretty much.

This is a PA Project , they have the money...just lack the will to do anything big other than Airport projects..

$100b to Ukraine but we can’t spend 1.7b to give our poorest residents access to decent public transit.

The current yield on the 2yr T note is 3.85%; at that rate, the interest payment on 100b is 3.85b. For that money you could build the extension 2 time over🤦🏾

You get what you vote for.

Great, but lets not act like this isn't just to shuttle NY actors to and from the Lionsgate studio. It will do wonders for the neighborhood and revitalize a part of Newark that needs it, but this was probably part of the deal to get the studio into town... now let's get the path extended so we can get some 24 hr access to NY for that neighborhood

Wanted to go but I had another thing to do that day.