PLEASE make sure you know the foods that dogs can/cannot eat. A big well-known no-no is chocolate but grapes are less known and are worse. It might not seem like a big deal if your dog eats a grape but it could be life or death if you don’t act quickly.

Here’s a good list of things to avoid feeding/letting your dog eat: https://www.petsbest.com/blog/20-foods-dogs-shouldnt-eat/

Yeah. In the past few years some of those old factories have been updated and turned into art installations/galleries. Not viable for the entire city area but doing something with the space nonetheless. What they’ll do with the rest of the abandoned buildings is beyond me.

Yeah I badly phrased my response, it wasn’t my intention to say that only Paterson and Camden are that bad, there are definitely other cities (the oranges and parts of Newark like you said). I also live outside of it and while I think it has gotten better recently, it still has a long way to go.

For those unfamiliar with NJ, Paterson sucks, you really just should not go there. It and Camden are among the few blips of NJ (along with the oranges and parts of Newark) that are just straight up not safe to be in.

Hopefully this actually enacts some meaningful change there. Recently there have been some new/remodeling developments, so I think there is still hope for it.

Edit: removed vagueness