NJ Gov Murphy DESTROYED what remained of Downtown Newark retail with COVID Lockdowns.

Ferry St is now the place to shop for your family & kids. Broad is just dollar stores/ripoff dated electronics & stores ripping off HipHop kids.

Correct. Under current NJ liquor regulations , Newark can NEVER be the 24 hour live city NYC is in terms of nightlife & restaurants.

Imagine if NYC was in NJ, where annexation was restricted, then denied by "home rule". Liquor laws arranged in zero sum game determined by a set finite number that can only be sold ortransferred, but never added on to.

You get Newark! A city sabotaged by its host state.

Spadea reminds me of Paul Mulshine.

I Thought he was "miserable type" conservative till he attacked everything GWBush & Trump did.

Then realized he's not conservative at all, but a media plant playing controlled opposition to Democrat NJ Governors to sell more Newark Star Ledgers in Red NJ counties.

But he reveals his Democrat colors soon as a GOP becomes president!

It's all political . If Newar's Mayor was GOP, US MSM & late night would've savaged him & Newark. The jokes would never end.

Obviously you have a narrow definition of "woke".

Woke is "awareness of racial & Social Justice" issues.

"Social Justice' includes 'Environmental Justice" traffic Calming began as a Sweedish Social Justice movement favoring pedestrians & bicyclists over drivers.

Your failure to keep up doesn't make me the "idiot."

I'm done. Next!!

It's the awkward moment capitalists are socialists. Lol

I support this change.
The current laws discriminate against minorities & working class whites ,making it IMPOSSIBLE to open pubs/bar-restaurants in their communities. This is the reason you DON'T see minority owned bars - restaurants . 98% of Newarkers cannot afford $300-700k for a liquor license!

Liquor sales make up at least 55% of all revenue in serving restaurants. The margin is razor thin on food sales.

All these people opposing are defending the monopoly bc THEY have interests!

The author talks about "mom & pop pubs/taverns", but then goes on to list all these major or "favorite "bar-restaurants "that will be affected".

I guarantee 90% of those businesses are owned by millionaires!

NJ builds thousands of homes yearly, I don't see home prices dropping! Why should liquor licenses in Tom's River, Belmar ,Ewing be affected by expanding the number Licenses for more Bar/Grill businesses in Newark, for example?

It's not a ZERO sum game!

What is wrong with the Reagan quote saying saying "America's too great for small dreams"?

This sounds just about right . Google traffic calming and you'll see all the ridiculous suggestions for reducing traffic, such as placing Boulders or trees in the middle of the road, bollards, trenches with plants and water, zig zag Lanes and retiming of traffic lights to prevent fast movement.

Yes. I can't explain for the life of me why did they make it intersection forcing drivers coming north on Route 21 to loop around by the river and then cross 21 again at grade in a gigantic Jug Handle putting them in a collision course for southbound 21 drivers trying to figure out the fork before their eyes. Not only that, but half the time the driver's trying to access 280 West by Crossing Route 21 can't do it because it's already a line of cars stuck in traffic going Southbound on Route 21 blocking the Box ! There is no reason why the Northbound 21 exit to I-280 couldn't just go around by the river and then immediately launch upward, cross over 21 where it will meet the ramp coming up from 21 South. With all the empty land occupied by The Jug Handle interchange they could have built something better. Somewhere along the line it was decided to go for the cheaper at-grade option.

The only target the ones that make honest mistakes. the ones that deliberately run stop signs, or do u turn in their faces and run red lights ,Burn Rubber or speed are ignored.

That's because many cops sees these people as individuals trying to set them up for a Chase and possible liability if they end up shooting or injuring the perpetrators. I think Newark is one of those cities w civilian police complaint board so police are not going to do anything that will jeopardize their jobs. Unless the officers are specifically dispatched to a certain situation, they will look the other way and mind their own business.

The city division of traffic and signals has gone completely woke with the traffic coming stupidity which actually creates traffic. A few examples:

• backwards parking on Lower Broadway eliminated two white Lanes at the intersection of 7th Avenue. I avoid that area now you can spend up to 5 minutes just getting from Crittenden Street to the Burger King!
• the White Lane stripes were never replaced on Broadway after the resurfacing of what was already a good road. So now it's a free-for-all where you have idiot drivers who drive right in the middle of where the two lanes used to be, slowing everybody down. Then you have to bump outs at Broadway and 3rd Avenue. This is so stupid! And now you have 3rd Avenue backup all the way down to McCarter Highway because nobody can make a right turn or go straight at Broadway and 3rd until the poor sap in the front who is stuck finally gets his chance to make the left turn! Of course by then the light is red.
• For some abnormal reason Park Avenue was converted to one lane each way! Now it has traffic all the way up to the park!
• Clifton Avenue and Park Avenue by the cathedral. Once again, a ridiculous curb bump out makes it impossible for anyone stuck behind the guy trying to turn left from going around. As a result Clifton Avenue Northbound is always jammed from Park Avenue all the way down to Rotonda pool / 7th Ave!
• then there's the infamous elimination of Irvine Turner Boulevard as a major 4 lane artery and it's reduction to a one-lane driveway each Direction with a stupid planter in the middle even ambulances cannot maneuver around! I have never seen a person ride a bike in the bike Lanes which are pretty much faded away by now. But hey! Once they come to Newark and go to this Urban hell they'll go back out to the suburbs and never shop here again!

In the 1990s Newark mayor Sharpe James had all the traffic lights on Broad Street and McCarter Highway synchronized, the way they are in Manhattan or should I say were. Now they are no longer synchronized. I don't know if it was something that developed over time, or is it part of the stupid thing called traffic calming, which simply aims to create obstacles for drivers.

This is great news. I knew Vermella would pave the way for development like this. For too long, Newarkers could only see Harrison & JC get these massive developments.

We don't need detached towers that goes back to the 1940s to 60s. We need development that complements and continues the urban wall effect that compliments the rowhouses on the other side . This project is perfect and it's the type of development you see in Harrison around the Red Bull Arena. Newark has been ignored too long for this type of development.

It appears developers are now using the threat of undesirable outcomes as well. It appears to Harlem case has set a precedent**. developer made clear that they could use other revenue streams for the site, such as light Manufacturing, big box retail like a Costco bringing a nightmare to the neighborhood as far as traffic, or a supermarket which will also create a traffic situation.

** a developer proposed to build a gigantic housing development in Harlem that was the stuff of dreams for that neighborhood, which has been crying for redevelopment and more affordable units as well as mixed income units. Even though close to a quarter of the units would be affordable housing, and the developer went way out of his way to accommodate Community concerns , a leftist radical commie councilwoman killed the project because she wanted zero gentrification. The developer retaliated by constructing a trucking Depot and trailer storage yard instead. He had every legal right to create the depot.

Now this sounds familiar because it also happened in Newark where a bunch of ghetto radicals actually killed a Wawa proposed to McCarter Highway and Governor Street. (It got built across the street from Newark just north of Clara Mass Hospital-IN BELLEVILLE! ) the site is now a trailer parking lot. And trailer parking lots are taking over every empty plot of land in the cities. In Newark they took over the entire railroad right of way. The Newark branch has been buried under three feet of fill and it's now used as a linear parking garage for trucks from Chester Avenue to the city line with Belleville. So these activists opposing we development better be careful what they ask for!

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

This is probably a very dated map proceeding those developments.

Well that was a waste of time. I don't know what Jersey city has to do in Newark. Not to go into my phone settings and find us download to delete it. LOL

I grew up in that yellow house next to the gas station across the street ! My parents sold it last August to Gomez and was demolished. I still maintain the subtropical banana plants, yucca's and the cold hardy Palms .The Baxter terrorist projects were demolished back in 2007. It is disgusting and a testament to this fraudulent City nothing has been built after phase one of Baxter Park! It's been like this for over 15 years. Why? Because the corrupt city on the land. No private developer would survive this. You either build or sell the land or go bankrupt. The rumor is a company from Philadelphia called Brandywine development( and I don't know it's one of their couple of brandy wines in real estate and none of the websites even mentions Newark!) Went into a deal with the city of Newark to redevelop that land, as well as the former Borden's Milk Factory AKA Peddler Square. Brandywine agreed to rebuild the cities training facilities for fire and police at the West runion Redevelopment. At the site of the former Belmont Elementary School. In return, Brandywine now gets The Peddler Square/ Borden site in a land swap. The original plan was for townhouses and the style of James Street Commons. This was before the Brandywine acquisition. So far, Brandy one has done nothing. I don't even know if Brandywine is still involved. I know Moonlight Cinemas rented the property and a trucking firm rented half the land to store their trailers a year ago. The trucking firm moved to McCarter Highway to a site where a Wawa was supposed to be built.

At 3:00 you're passing the PATH trains. They parked them back then the same way they Park them now. Back then of course, they were known as the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad or ask more affectionately known, the tubes a commuter service provided by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

The SB path track can easily go over 21 on a partial Viaduct over the Northbound Lanes. If they really wanted to build it, theyd find a way. Highways and roads are constantly realigned whenever the government wants to build rail or highways. Also keep in mind when the South Street station reactivation was dismissed that area was not seeing much Redevelopment. Since then, a major apartment building has been built right next to the old station on what used to be a former rail yard. You can still see the bridge that carried the siding over South Street just east of the bridge carrying the 4 main tracks. Developments like this will once again make the South Street Station viable.

It's only two or three blocks south of South Street, a bus route. And the building most likely will be in the Harrison Riverbend slash Red Bull Arena Zone model with interior parking and residential around the sides. But that's just my guess.

It would be a nice addition to the South Street / Oak Island neighborhood. Southernmost place in the Ironbound before the Oak Island Rail Yard itself.

Typical Newarkphobic nimby bs.

They see "Newark" & the NYC worshippers go crazy.