The station's been proposed at least 5 years now. Nothing to do with Lionsgate, but it sure will help.

Bravo!🤗🤗

Correct. I feel Newark is not a priority at all for the port authority. Everything is about New York City and Port Newark and Elizabeth. As well as the Jersey City extension of the port. I believe Helen hook terminal Staten Islands also a satellite of Port Newark. The station is a good start.

I envisioned the hillside branch used as a Newark light rail extension to reach Irvington. This will be part of the Newark Library extension along Broad Street that can go up along Elizabeth Avenue

This is good news. As much as I dream about an expanded PATH to Cranford / Aldine with stops at South Street / Oak Island, Dayton- ewr, Jersey gardens, downtown Elizabeth , Roselle and a branch off the main line at South Street proceeding on the Springfield Ave Irvington or using the hillside Branch to access Irvington from behind, it's not going to happen. The Port Authority is strictly centered on New York City. New Jersey worships New York City. If the PA can't afford the LaGuardia air train which is just a light rail, it's not going to build a Four Mile heavy rail extension to EWR. Newark needs its own Transit Authority!

Pretty much.

North Newark (ex Woodside twp.), southeastern Bloomfield & southern Belleville share an unincorporated area called Silver Lake. The entire area sits on the flat lakebed of glacial lake Watssessing. Silver Lake was the remnant Sunfish pond expanded by a dam in 1800s to create Silver Lake for ice harvesting.

When Newark annexed "old Woodsie" , Woodside was divided along the eastern shore of Silver Lake. Everything west including the lake itself, returned to Belleville. Woodside itself lasted only 2 years after succeeding from Belleville. It sought annexation to Newark after a rich prosperous expanding Newark agreed to cover its debt.

In 1889 the dam burst during a storm. That was the end of Silver Lake.

As whites moved out of Newark & Hispanic immigrants moved in, the white majority Belleville & Bloomfield got the US Census to shrink the boundaries of Silver Lake to exclude Newark. The Newark area was renamed "Stadium Section" (Now part of "Upper Roseville".

But many Newarkers aware of Newark history ain't going for that racist revisionism.

So Im glad it's called SILVER LAKE Hospital.

Well the Columbus homes were built for Italians displaced by urban renewal. The idea what's the Italians to live there and the wealthy Irish and Jewish (both groups by now financially successful and included in America's elastic category) would live in the fancy Colonnade Towers. When the federal government and the City took and demolished Little Italy with eminent domain claiming the area was dilapidated and in need of Redevelopment. Black and Italian neighborhoods were targeted for urban renewal because Italians were not considered white at the time. As Italians began moving into Belleville Nutley and other places nationally they became openly racist against black people as a way of asserting their whiteness. This culminated through the rights when the Italians form the human chain to keep blacks from the north Ward with Tony Imperiale becoming notorious figure. It would also kill ed the original Kawaida Towers

Of course that's not how it turned out. Thanks to the GI Bill all the youngsters of Little Italy wound up moving to the suburbs and Columbus homes /7th ave Lower Broadway became home to poor blacks and Puerto Ricans.

The reference to pre-1967 s in reference to Elizabeth Del tufo's correct assessment the mayor has no respect for anything historical that pre- dates the 1967 riot and black majority.

That's true no matter where.

That's the Rahway River East Branch. It flows South on its way to Millburn where it meets the West Branch Rahway coming down South Mountain reservation to form the greater Rahway River.

Also, the Elizabeth river begins in Newark at the old Vailsburg / Irvington boundary at West End ave.

It is a good neighborhood. You've got the VA hospital in South Orange just blocks away. West of Monte Irving Orange Park you have a section of orange that looks identical to South Orange minus the gaslamps. The only sketchy area is between Montrose Avenue and South Orange Avenue. Where the Vailsburg area of Newark Zig Zags in and out.

The bottom floor used to be a beautiful 2 story & basement Store known as Kresge's . Just like McCrory's across Cedar Ave, it had it's on subway station on the eastbound side. Eventually the larger Kresge went on to become Kresge Mart/ later Kmart. The Newark Kresge morphed into the two guys department store chain.

I wish I saw your post earlier. Would have saved me the effort. LOL

You figured it all out at the end of your post. A lot of these developers are scum with no intention of building anything. You buy a plot of land for a million dollars in downtown, propose a 50 story Skyscraper the city can only dream of. The city enthusiastically approves the project. Now the land explodes in value at the very least because of the potential. Now they sell the land for many millions more based on the new speculative value of what has been approved.

Tona is planning another similar height structure a "few blocks away" plus the apartment building on Central Avenue near the intersection with 1st Street directly across from the old Cablevision headquarters.

It's great to see developers have enough confidence in Newark to actually put their own money and get things going.

You should see a gray bar directly below the skyline image of Newark saying " urbanaffairsreview.com "

Urbanaffairsreview.com/newark

Usually just tapping the picture will take you there.

They didn't destroy the statue but they did damage it when they dumped it on a city vacant lot on Verona Avenue across the street from the shuttered Seton Factory. A local resident walking up Verona Avenue saw & recognized the mangled statue on a broken pallet among the weeds, in plain sight from the sidewalk. Separated from the public by a chain link fence.

That's just me saying rants. 😂I wasn't quoting.

For thousands of years, every civilization 's visual Arts has improved upon the civilization before it. The trend has always been towards more realism. It was the given from the time man left the caves, to the sumerians, Egypt, India and Far East, culminating with the Greek, Roman & peaking with the US/English Victorian era. Then something happened in the early 20th century, everything stalled and became not so realistic. Art deco sculptures began, then cubism, abstractism the degradation continues to the point where a a crucifix in a toilet bowl full of rotting urine is considered "a monument". The trend now is towards not just unrealistic, but sheer lunacy with random pipes and metals, Justified by the excuse you're supposed to see the "spiritual aspect of it".

Either you refuse to acknowledge what I'm talking about, or you're like one of the four Blind Men. Each one clutching a leg and refusing to acknowledge the opinion of other three and realize the big elephant above them.

I'm not against abstract art. I believe abstract art should be about Concepts, not about individuals. Harriet Tubman was not a bunch of wires with a hollow interior. She deserved a lot better then what looks like a used Christmas lights wire prop up with wires curving (a dress?) down the side. Not a bunch of politicians and social activists and a photo op with the mayor pretending the thing behind them is the most beautiful thing they've ever seen. But hey, you have your tastes I have mine.

Another ad of the same campaign two smiling women shopping.

The centerpiece is such a monstrosity. Perfect example of a receding civilization. The surrounding walls are a nice touch with the names embedded. It could have been combined with another design such as the young Harriet Tubman statue with the Newark history and it's parallel with Tubman designsAfrican Americans imprinted on her dress.