Right but it’s not in the downtown district and caters more to Latin Americans

Newark's night clubs are usually just lounges or restaurants that reconfigure after dark to a more night club experience. Off the top of my head, Vivo Lounge on Ferry goes from a quiet bakery and restaurant to a Brazilian night club with women dancing on the bar after 10 pm. The same is true for Tijuana Bar and Grill and many other places in the Ironbound. Hell, even McGoverns becomes more night clubish after 10 pm, on certain nights, when they close the back area and make it a dance floor.

In the rest of Newark, its a bit more hit or miss as certain bars dont advertise the lounge aspect in order to keep the place more insulated to locals.

We can definitely use more nightlife here, I agree with that, but the spots are there if you are looking for it and know where to look. Hell, local Jersey Club DJs host large parties all over the city if you follow them on social media, and those kind of fill in the void of more traditional night clubs.

I do think if everything goes to plan, the city is looking to make the lots around Mulberry Commons a nightlife destination in the city, and I hope we can attract more night clubs or Hoboken style bars that can easily become night clubs.

That's... Exactly what I want. I moved north to Woodbridge, but kinda want to move more urban. Except $$$$$ and I'm a snowflake suburbanite so don't know which areas are dangerous in Newark, JC, and NYC.

Ferry Street literally fits that definition, especially closer to the train station.

I mean thats anywhere though.

I mean, yes... their dream is to also make the urban parts of the metro area seem like natural extensions of each other where it is easy to get people to easily move from Queens or Brooklyn to JC or Newark and vice versa. It opens up their potential pool of tenants by making the areas with subway lines much more attractive, and thus allows for more people from the region (suburbs or the cities) and outside the region attracted to those neighborhoods.

on top of the fact that other bars on the ground floor of residential buildings in Newark are extremely loud as well.

Um who do you think owns the nightlife in Manhattan, Washington Ave in Hoboken, or Grove Street... the rent in those places are extremely high for a mom and pop place to open up and the people running those places tend to be corporations.

Corporations have realized they can raise the rent alot more when there are things to attract the high earners, and part of the attraction is night life. Small landlords are the ones that care more about loud noise not the big corporations.

Eh downtown, like in most cities in the US, is just for business. The neighborhood that really offers a manhattan style midtown experience is the Ironbound. It has the large collection of bars and restaurants, its walkable, upscale housing, etc. The only thing it doesnt have is the skyscrapers/office buildings.

When they have a kpop show in general morning time is the exclusive merchandise sales which people line up for and also the meet and greet later on in the night is the concert

They're playing there 2 days

That was last night (11/14). This was this morning at 10:15 AM. Or is there another show tonight?

It could be for a few reasons.

1. The Hotel was labeled as a Public Nuisance because of the drug use and prostitution. And had to be shut down.

2. The Bank took over the Hotel because the owner(s) were not making the payments. Likely because they had so many people squatting.

Either way I am happy. The place was an eye sore for a long time. Things needed to change.

I mean swahili village be blasting music everyday until 2am and it’s literally on the first floor of one theater square and the hotel. And trust you can feel the vibration from the music

Now hold on, Newark needs more salad spots. We need Chopt

Kpop concert

What is that? The rise in prices? They simply are not building fast enough.

For hip-hop, Check out Three Levels Lounge, Allure Lounge, and Lit 21 on the nights Funkmaster Flex is there. Clubs like Club Eclipse play more old school house.

The best overall club in Newark is a giant Latin one. Check out Marbella Lounge on a late Saturday night.

So I can’t find any news articles on this yet, I’m assuming because it’s probably very new as of yesterday. I know someone who stays there long term (unfortunately). They are giving her family and others that stay there section 8 that can be used in any state because they have to vacate the location.

This is All I know so far. Don’t know why it’s closing. A bid to convert the Riviera to apartments was turned down back in October. So I don’t know what possibly could be happening now. But that area needs this. The Riviera unfortunately attracted drug addicts, prostitution, etc. hopefully something is coming there to raise the neighborhood’s livability and value.

Here is a counterpoint to the idea that Newark will naturally flow into a bustling downtown—We skipped the renegade small landlord stage and went right to the corporate landlords stage. Corporate landlords don’t want some loud music near their $4000 apartment. And so Downtown perhaps could never have the nightlife everyone thinks is naturally going to happen. Just more and more apartments near salad spots for lunch

The developers want exactly that

Newark is a city with a shitload of music history and a good handful of artists that are buzzing right now, but there are no clubs! I would love a cool hip-hop or dance club in the city (besides QXT). Shouldn't have to go to Brooklyn or Manhattan just to break a sweat. I like the underground parties too but still. We need a real spot to go to.

those square block-sized parking lots downtown are a MENACE

I've met so many kind people and had so many great conversations and experiences recently its honestly restored my faith in the inherent goodness of most. I like to think people around here are like me: maybe a bit rough around the edges but with good hearts.

And don't get me started on the aesthetics. A lot has changed over the past few years but if you wanna see what old New York looked and felt like then come here before they tear it down and replace it with a mixed use microwave-lookin wood framed "thing". NYC has been mostly sanitized and is just a big theme park/photo-op. Movie studios are filming in Newark for a reason, it wears the grit and dirt and scars that every American city has openly.

I mention both because while people can be put off by initial appearances of the city and the people that call it home, you'll find that it's really a special place with special people. A lot of people who haven't lived or even set foot here for decades or ever have this interesting nostalgia for Old Newark, especially in the Jewish and Italian communities. Just wish I could tell those folks looking at old pictures from the '20s and '40s and telling stories about their family's shop that a lot of it is still here, waiting for people with the will and means to breathe new life back into it.

McGoverns 🤍my all time fav