That could be any of newark's north/south Teen streets. It could also be where Society hill, NJIT or even UMDNJ is today.

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Are you asking what do I mean by "annex"? To annex is to execute the process of annexation. Annexation is when an independent or non Incorporated area is brought into the fold of another Incorporated community.

You can look up the word for a much clearer definition.

Ah, but did you know Newark has always been independent of New York City? Newark was America's second most industrial city after Detroit. Believe it or not, Newark and Detroit had the same number of factories despite only 24 square miles versus Detroit's 142 sq. miles. With the exception of the Frelinghuysen Avenue corridor and the Oak Island District of Ironbound, Newark factories were mixed within neighborhoods. New York was an industrial Powerhouse while New York City served as the financial Powerhouse of the region. In fact Newark was often referred to as the American and New York City Warehouse of industrial Arts. The 1940 " American Journal of industry and finance" I read as a senior high school student at Arts High School in 1992 evaluated the city of Newark and proudly proclaimed "Newark is independent of New York City" celebrate the city's achievements and predicted population of 1 million. However, the article compared Newark to Los Angeles in that opposite the Los Angeles case of 100 suburbs searching for a city, Newark was a 24 square mile super dense core looking for a city. The article went on to say Newark needed to Annex 16 surrounding municipalities or watch her glorious future be aborted.

As a lifelong Newark resident, I can tell you North of Park Avenue from the park to Roseville Ave. Then north of Springdale Avenue to the East Orange Line.

If you're looking forward more of an urban feel with rowhouses and other "missing middle" Urban architecture, the 6th Avenue corridor in lower Roseville is pretty nice. But you have to be a little Street Smart. It's a transition area between the more Suburban upper Roseville and the inner city central Ward which usually begins at Orange Street and South.

It will look great in the skyline. It will also command attention to itself since it will be away from the main group when seen from the south & east.

Just like Boston's Hancock tower.

That's nice to know. I didn't have any figures as far as height in feet. I know the first tower would be at least 30 something stories.

That Halo Tower would indeed look nice across the PSEG building as number two Newark Center.

I hate Edison/Goettsman. They are the biggest stumbling block to Newark progress.

Either it gets redesigned to incorporate the facade, or it dies.

It may get downsized as well. I suspect that's what the "preservation" people -comprised of activists, really want. (Not to upset demographics dominated by James Street) If a downsided dumb 15 story 20% affordable version wins demo permit, you'll see how corrupt the process is.

I believe Newark will never see a building taller than 1180. Even Halo may fall short, as residential stories are way shorter than office stories.

Current Newark leadership don't want true skyscrapers. A true skyscraper or super tall is a symbolic "green light" to multiple developers & gentrification.

As of last week, the nature flood basin open space area at the interchange of RT21 & I-280 was suddenly fenced off & there are now Piles of dirt & rocks, concrete debris left by dumptruck.

Theres a nice row of similar 3 story rowhomes on Broadway & Second Ave.

Another block on Broad St btw 3rd & 4th ave has a Brooklyn feel to it.

There's also a OM temple at the Belleville area at the intersection of Joralemon and Washington Avenue. Right behind laundry Warehouse laundromat. Washington Avenue and Broadway are the same artery. Just take Broadway north and it becomes Washington Ave over the second River Bridge.

I know, right? Who's designing these buildings? NJIT? Actually most likely not because NJIT designs the ugliest Lego looking buildings I've ever seen. That Greek Village thing is the ugliest cookie cutter thing I've ever seen.

I'm annoyed pseg keeps playing spoiler every time and areas Target for redevelopment they take a huge chunk of the land away and put a giant substation. They put a giant substation right in the heart of the Fairmont neighborhood plan . Other than Georgia King development , every other Redevelopment plan for that area has disappeared . Down in downtown, PSEG did the same, wrecking the Soma master plan for residential high-rises between William Street and Court Street. They better move fast and build before PSEG decides to expand their South Street area substation.

I don't know, Amazon is currently building their hq2 in Virginia.

I agree with you there. Amazon from the get-go was going to Arlington Virginia. This entire hq2 thing was a scam, US charade to pick desperate cities against each other to see who could offer the most ridiculous tax incentives. We all know Newark won that contest. No other city in America was able to match what New Jersey offered on behalf of Newark. But the whole hq2 thing was a farce to see if Arlington Virginia would match the lowest offer. That's exactly what happened! Even though the Arlington Virginia deal was inferior to newark's, Amazon chose Arlington anyway. To save face, they decided to split it between NYC and Arlington VA. Of course the reality, they wanted everything in Virginia. That's why they were so quick to bolt as soon as New York congresswoman AOC complained about the NYC offer.

But Newark screwed up big time with Amazon when they caved in to a bunch of leftist protesters against an airport warehouse for Amazon. I'm sure Newark is now on Jeff Bezos no go list.

Don't be surprised if he pulls audible out of Newark eventually. You don't become a billionaire by being nice. These people are vindictive and sometimes, even evil and dangerous.

This will not end homelessness in Newark. And it'll have the opposite effect, it'll encourage more homeless into Newark.

The only way to end homelessness is to rebuild all the Mental Hospitals with demolished! All this homeless epidemic began as soon as mental psychiatric institutions were abolished. Expecting mentally unstable people to maintain a schedule regimen of taking pills has landed us here. Most of these homeless people are not people that are down on their luck like we had during the Great Depression. These are 99% alcohol and substance abusers who are trapped in a mental Loop they can't get out of. They need to be institutionalized until the demons are out of the system and they are able to function as normal human beings. And if they are never capable of being functional, then they should stay there. Not as prisoners, they should be free during the day to go about,work, shop, visit nearby family but like a halfway house, provided they follow the rules.

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There is a reference to Philadelphia on the Garden State Parkway Southbound in Woodbridge or Metuchen just before the exit take you to Turnpike interchange 11. South on the turnpike 30 mention of Philadelphia until you reach what used to be the Pennsylvania Turnpike extension which is now the new 95 South. That's where Philly references appear. It's been a painful years but last I remember most control City Signs continue to say Del Memorial Bridge or Camden. NB on 95 now says "New York" as of new signage.

Mulberry Street? It's the only apartment building I can think of a Mulberry Street is the old Newark news building complex with a huge parking lot facing Mulberry Street.

Unlike regular NJ Transit trains with conductors punching tickets, Light Rail operates on an honor System of ticket validation. The purpose of validating a ticket is to prevent you from using the same ticket both ways or handing it over to a friend to use. By not having a ticket validated or stamped, there's no way to prove you didn't just get that ticket from someone else or you're trying to double dip. Now if the cop sees your receipt and there's no reasonable way you could have double dipped within that time window and he still gives you a ticket, he's a douchebag. But it's a million times cheaper to just pay the ticket than to fight it. It's not like you got a DUI or something requiring a lawyer. It sucks, but you got to be careful and follow directions.

You might remember me with the silver Pontiac avatar & my long posts when I felt Newark wasn't moving fast enough.😅😅

You don't grow the city population by moving people from one block of the city to another. Development is meant to increase the population. The city used to have close to half a million residents. The city fathers built an infrastructure to support 1 million people because the expected to expand Newark into all of Essex County. But lo and behold racist anti Italian and anti Irish bigotry dominating the 19th century NJ legislature passed laws to prohibit Newark, Camden & JC from growing further and introduced the dead end obstacle & referendum process to annexations. Newark has the same square mileage as Manhattan. Obviously Newark is not going to get manhattanized, but it can easily support half a million.

Well if this building is cheap why don't you spend a few of your hidden trillions and give Newark a beautiful building in your taste?

So basically the ghetto Lobby wins. That's what I call all these Pro ghetto blight groups that want to keep the city and a limbo status quo of poverty and blight in order for them to continue living their lives and complete Oblivion to the world around them. These are simply groups that want nothing built in their neighborhoods because they are part of the problem and they don't care. You feel like shouting at them when you hear their stupid ridiculous objections. Some of these people will get up over and over and over again during hearing