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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6fug36 wrote

Reply to comment by GhostOfRobertTreat in Bud in Essex county??? by Havocnumbanine

Yeah it def gets pricey. I tend to be 90% IPAs, 10% stouts & sours.

I want to set up a bottle/can share/trade amongst the local beer drinking community. Spoke to Steve @ Newark Local a while ago about it, and he seemed interested in being the meeting place for it.

Just can't be arsed to manage all the logistics lol

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6f12ly wrote

Reply to comment by Brallagher in I’m staying in the Ironbound for the next 2 months. What do I do? by Brallagher

Super easy. Head down to Penn station, and you have a few options.

Can take NJ transit to Hoboken (tho more frequent out of Newark Broad st) NY Penn Station (mid town, smack in the middle of everything)

Or Path train, which can get you to Hoboken Jersey City Or multiple stops in NYC, from World Trade Center (downtown), all the way up to 33rd street (only a few blocks from NY Penn station)

Both can be absolutely painful and unreliable, but for the most part, you'll have one of them running fine. Occasionally both systems shit the bed and it's a massive clusterfuck

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6ezfhh wrote

Reply to I’m staying in the Ironbound for the next 2 months. What do I do? by Brallagher

>What are the go to cafes, restaurants and bars?

Casa de Paco, little Tijuana, Ferry st or Mcwhorters bbq, Altas Horas would be my ironbound recommendations. Prob some others I'm forgetting.

McGovern's (full bar & bar food), Newark Local (just beer, sometimes local bbq truck out front), Marcos B&P (upscale restaurant with full bar) would be some other recommendations in downtown.

>good soccer bar

Not really anything that great around here unfortunately. I'm a huge footy fan, and will go to either Mulligans in Hoboken, or Legends/Football Factory in the NYC for any big games. Both easily accessible by train.

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6eqybq wrote

Reply to comment by newmindsets in NJ Cat owners by biiillyyyyyy

I wouldn't mind the bag ban if I didn't then have to fill my reusable bags with single use plastic containers and packaging that 99% of all manufacturers still use.

Just seems like a big PR show - why inconvenience the consumer and then do fuck all about how food is packaged. You'd make a bigger dent in plastic waste by mandating more environmentally friendly food packaging

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6cyzyy wrote

Reply to comment by sutisuc in Bud in Essex county??? by Havocnumbanine

Oh yeah, I'd rather just deal with the expensive pricing to know exactly what I'm getting too.

It will go down in time. I have family in MA and so frequent dispensaries there too, and when they first opened the pricing was similar to what NJ is now, but over a few years the prices dropped dramatically and you can now grab 1/2 (4 1/8s) for 60-80 bucks

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j6bsam4 wrote

Reply to Bud in Essex county??? by Havocnumbanine

Rise in Bloomfield. (Border of Newark/Bloomfield)

But you ain't getting an 1/8 for $20 lol it's dispensary pricing, so expect $60 an 1/8, 100 a 1/4, 40-60 for a cart etc

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j5kz1kf wrote

Reply to comment by NewNewark in What happened to all the development boom? by Gamezilla2022

Just looking out my window, I can see two projects currently going up...

55 Norfolk (only like 5 stories, never had a crane) 165 residential units & 3200sqft of retail.

Not sure the exact address, but there's one that's been going up on/around Hoyt Street (behind Giovanni's pizza across from NJIT) that actually has the crane up right now.

I don't follow all the exact projects, names, addresses, developers, city approval processes, inside leg measurements for the developer's CEO like some of the weirdos in here do.

My point was that a lack of cranes in the skyline is not an indication of a lack of development. These things take time, there is always plenty of red tape and hoops to jump through.

Just take a drive or walk around and you'll see an insane amount of stuff happening. Sure, they aren't all 75 story skyscrapers, but that's irrelevant.

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j5kox7o wrote

Reply to What happened to all the development boom? by Gamezilla2022

The big construction cranes on site are only necessary for taller structures. Some projects only need them for a short period of time to move certain structural elements into place, and then the crane is gone.

Tons of stuff has been going up, maybe not yet all the 'towers' that were projected, but if you haven't seen the development happening, you haven't been looking close enough.

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Chelseafc5505 t1_j54ifoi wrote

Reply to Opera Singer's Newark Home Hits Market At $699K by madsheb

Yeah, it's a lovely house, but knowing a lady was murdered, stuffed into a suitcase, and encased in a fake concrete slab in the basement would keep me up at night.

Hard pass

Edit: after a bit of research, the house pictured and listed (200 Elmwood) is NOT the house that the poor lady was buried in which was 212-214 Elmwood

Edit 2: this house is so flipping strange. The layout is so convoluted. The basement has two levels to it? The closets have closets? A few dead hallways that lead nowhere.

Can do a 3d tour here https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/200-Elwood-Ave-Newark-NJ-07104/2129926534_zpid/?

It is in complete disarray, has clearly been abandoned for a long time, and needs another 500k minimum put it into it. Might be some of the ornate original interior that's salvageable, but I imagine most of it would have to get trashed, and taken down to the studs.

It almost seems someone saw this as a fixer upper and started to work on it ( a couple of more modern details and finishes) and ran out of money and then just abandoned it.

You'd have to be insane/have very deep pockets to want to take this project on

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