Bro relax I was just trying to understand your comment because I thought it was an unfamiliar acronym. You sassy as hell for no reason lol

You're a poet...perhaps you might know how to utilize context clues in order to ascertain the intent behind a typo.

Perhaps not.

What does “qas” mean

Lol ok they can move in with you

Oh well. They can leave.

If the city wants to be serious about getting rid of the riff raff, rents need to be jacked up. Either get with the program and figure out a legal way to afford it, or move out.

This project will make the many empty lots and decrepit buildings in the lower Broadway section so much more appealing to developers. The housing deficit is huge. Every little bit helps.

And Capitalism is what makes it possible to have nice things.

Just came out of a focus group for Newark Penn modernization and half of us all mentioned the lack of pedestrian infrastructure (bike lanes, more green space)

Unless youre a homeowner, you best believe demand for housing will increase your rent. Hence its good to increase supply so prices don’t increase too much.

If you purposely push down supply, prices will go up. Capitalism (developers, high income folks) are realizing Newark potential, hence the increase in rent. That’s capitalism.

Yeah, its just as bad in the outer boroughs or upper manhattan... it doesn't make sense since the regions urban areas don't really go to bed and have people going between the neighborhoods

True, but Newark's land around the penn is still highly underdeveloped, so it can definitely add another 20 to 30k apartments in the area.

Not building anything will not help unaffordability for anyone.

I hope they can make walking under 280 less dangerous/ sketchy. Ideally just demolish it but that's never gonna happen

It's already started just growing out of the bounds of downtown... Newark requires a minimum % of units to be affordable at least. It's kinda damned if you do damned if you don't though, at least in our current market. We'd need to see major reforms to public housing policies to change anything

I keep reading that 'everyone knows it as a NY airport'. But every family member and friend living in Manhattan, Queens, Bx, SI never ever consider it as such (and, of course, they go at lengths to remind just how 'in Jersey' it really is).

I know it's shared airspace, it's just annoying when the language gets pushed as if NY somehow owns the damn thing. Maybe easy for me to say since I'm on this side, but there's a lot of crying about consequences we haven't even realized yet (if they ever occur).

The Port Authority of NY/NJ is a regional authority. It administers the interstate bridges and tunnels as well.

This makes it more difficult for consumers to price air travel to/from the region and hence more expensive.

As I said when this qas posted previously, this harms Newark and is a slight, not a compliment.

The Street needs to be overhauled...I want protected bike lanes , tree lined median and more pedestrian friendly infrastructure.

Yeah they are built to optimize return on investment and not to fit in with the character of the city. They are everywhere too, so cities are just starting to look the same anywhere there is a commuter rail or highway. Saw similar all the way down to Florida on a train trip, and then just cookie cutter houses along the highways down there. Lots of capital and people just crunching numbers to figure out where to build.

Yeah either people move in that can afford it or the properties will just languish in disrepair till the next wave of capital rolls in to try building again.

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The average homegrown newarker will not afford the rent lol the gentrification has started

And they'll stay that way if the only development is these luxury shit holes.

Not sure why cities don't take more inspiration from Barcelona's superblocks or the buagruppens in Germany. It actually creates nice neighborhoods and community spaces.

Do people really care? Newark Airport is just fine. Rather Newark airport than JFK, for sure.