At night some of the blocks feel abit shady closer to the Parkway I only went over there to see a friend who has since moved. But during the day it was fine. Bloomfield seems to be investing in street upgrades with an emphasis of pedestrian safety over the last few years.. I have noticed that since the newer developments have gone up that during rush hr that area has become abit chaotic..

Merge School Districts , Merge towns and Merge Counties and you will see a property tax decrease or slowdown... Do we really need 21 counties in this state or towns the size of a 0.5 square miles , or 686 school districts...or police department in every town...?

Quiet , more and more redevelopments are getting built near the station...and the LRT might one day extend over from the current terminus.

Unfortunately that's usually the case...look up the bios of most of the recent mass shooters or serial killers there families usually tried to get them help but were given the run around...

Shake Shack is a former shell of what it once was...

I want a Roy Rogers...I'm sadden that they are gone from the Turnpike Rest Stops..

Covid killed alot of 24/7 places even most of NYC is dead after 12am now...even busy highway spots shut down after 1 or 2am on weekends...Hopefully that trend reverses after inflation goes down.

We briefly had Pollo Tropical in the late 2000s / early 2010s but they closed all there NJ locations. QDOBA is very similar to Moes...

A Panera Bread would be nice...and this city needs a Cheesecake factory...

Skyline needs a major expansion and the we need a proper waterfront.

Its better then Hudson News...i'm ok with it being in Newark Penn...I mean what would you replace it with?

Zaro's is a last resort for me when I pass through Grand Central.

In my small town the DPW is filled with family members...the police dept is the same and despite being a red town no one seems to care about corruption..

This fairly common in this country...doesn't matter whether its Newark or New York or deep in Rural Arkansas...

I avoid Newark in the summer , tend spend more time in Jersey City or by the ocean...

4x the amount of trees and 2x large downtown skyline.

Watch this video to understand reason why so few freight goes by rail.

That line is not at capacity... Its lightly used compared to other lines that have a freight train every hour. That can also easily be upgraded as it was mostly cut back to a single track but the ROW supports 2-3 tracks.

Those Aspca people and people raising money for children charities are just as aggressive as the homeless..

A lot of the looting incidents are due to gangs...often reselling things... I'm talking about the rise in Road Rage , Domestic violence , random violence like being pushed onto the tracks on the subway or punched walking down the street....and its not always people who look mentally ill...its increasingly normal people without any criminal history just snapping and killing people.

Crime is trending up nation wide in deep red and blue areas , places with strict policing and places without... A lot of it is tied to Mental Health and certain politicians egging on the mentally unstable.

You could do one for traffic lights at least in nearby Baltimore which still has a lot of old lights along with North Jersey. The light in my town dates back to the 1950s...

If traveling into the city isn't an issue you can take the metro north hudson line up to beacon,ny from grand central. Sit on the left side for views of the harlem and Hudson river. At beacon there is a free shuttle bus that will take you into downtown and at the eastern end of the downtown is small waterfall.

My route from my town has been back to normal at least since late 2021 but the express bus and trains are still well below pre-pandemic levels despite the population growth.

What was wrong with the signals...? That picture seems normal , I remember the trains always being packed largely with students pre-pandemic...